Let’s face it, mighty of the fight sports world is hoping for a Tyron Woodley resolve when he faces YouTube dreadful-boy Jake Paul later this month — however Bellator middleweight Gegard Mousasi doesn’t like his possibilities.
Woodley will peep to create one better than his buddy and training accomplice Ben Askren when he takes on Paul within the boxing ring on August 29 in what most are calling Paul’s first take a look at against a fighter who in point of fact possesses the vitality wanted in his palms to get a knockout.
But primarily based completely on Mousasi, Woodley will likely enact second most productive when the fists launch flying.
“Because [Paul] brings rather a huge selection of attention and he does put it up for sale successfully,” Mousasi said to MMA Combating. “People don’t like him, however I mediate he’s a tight boxer and he brings rather a huge selection of viewers. So it’s leisure. This combating alternate is leisure. Right here is no longer the Olympics the build it’s enthusiastic on sport. At the Olympics whenever you happen to resolve gold, you derive $30,000. No longer lower than here’s leisure, you derive paid mighty better. Right here is, first, leisure, after which it’s sport. So yeah, Jake Paul is a honest thing, I mediate, and so that they’re doing successfully.
“You perceive, Tyron Woodley is 40, he has lost all of his [recent] fights. They selected him because he’s a temporary man, he’s no longer a boxer. I don’t know why folks mediate he can field. Who said Tyron Woodley is a boxer?
“He has one moral hand with a minute glove. One-hundred percent, it’s no longer going to dawdle successfully for him. On the other hand it’s going to possess money and I want him successfully, and I don’t private anything else against Tyron Woodley. But let’s be staunch, they didn’t protect discontinuance him because he’s going [win]. Jake Paul selected him because he thinks he’s beatable.”
Mousasi is barely that Woodley has lost four straight within the UFC, however these did reach against Kamaru Usman, Gilbert Burns, Colby Covington and Vicente Luque, all of whom are opponents who private been in barely develop within the UFC welterweight physique.
Can the passe UFC champion derive assist to a hit solutions against a fight amateur? We salvage out in precisely about a weeks’ time.
