Tyron Woodley factors the finger on the UFC Apex for his shedding skid in MMA.
Former welterweight champion Woodley (19-7-1) parted methods with the UFC on a four-fight shedding skid, all which got here on the UFC Apex in Las Vegas. His ultimate combat within the UFC was a submission loss to Vicente Luque in March 2021.
The UFC Apex was closely relied on through the COVID-19 pandemic, and continues to be being utilized for a lot of exhibits a 12 months. The UFC used the Apex for reside exhibits 17 occasions in 2023 and already has hosted 9 occasions there by way of the primary 5 months of 2024.
Woodley stated he had a tough time getting up for fights in a quiet room with no crowd.
“To be trustworthy, once I was preventing my final couple MMA fights it was simply type of like a simulation,” Woodley advised Title Sports activities Community. “The entire Apex area deal is type of wack. It’s like a sparring session. I don’t let folks come watch me spar. I don’t prefer it, being in a bizarre awkward room. The cage was tremendous small, and I simply actually wasn’t motivated to be in a combat, particularly at the moment.
“These fights to me are like exhibition fights. I do suppose the followers should see me go on the market, see me run by way of any person, see the Tyron Woodley that they know I’m able to being and put a correct near my MMA profession. So I’m planning for an enormous, large MMA combat, presumably within the Center East.”
Previous to his four-fight shedding skid, Woodley was unbeaten in his previous seven fights, and retained his UFC welterweight title 4 occasions – twice in opposition to Stephen Thompson, as soon as in opposition to Demian Maia, and as soon as in opposition to Darren Until.
UFC CEO Dana White lately revealed that the promotion plans on transferring away from UFC Apex exhibits to hit the highway extra in 2024.
Make sure you go to the MMA Junkie Instagram web page and YouTube channel to debate this and extra content material with followers of combined martial arts.