UFC 209 results: Tyron Woodley wins rematch over Stephen Thompson

Woodley was hoping to parlay an impressive victory over Thompson, an elite kickboxer, into a big-money fight.

Both men fought tentatively in the first two rounds, earning the ire and consternation of the fans in attendance.

“The judges called him the victor tonight so he’s the victor and let’s see where we go from here”, he added. By the way, it was a draw past year, just in a fight with Tyrone Woodley. What he can focus on however is utilizing his wrestling more often this time around as he was effective with it in the first round of their previous fight. “If you sit back and be quiet, I think you’re doing an injustice to the people who could benefit”. We believe that any of the players will produce premature victory.

The Chosen One managed to retain his championship by majority decision, but as expected, controversy surrounded the scoring.

Overeem’s last fight was for the title and it was against Stipe Miocic at UFC 203. He had to pull out of his fight with Tony Ferguson, 33. One thing that we can be certain of though, is that both fighters will feel the need to do a little more in this next outing.

Heading to round five the champion’s corner asked him to find a new aggression and, hopefully, a finish. “I’m walking around bigger and heavier now because it does make a difference when you’re stepping out there against somebody as big and strong as Tyron”. “The last round i knew I needed to go for the kill, and I got it done”.

As a result the pair squares off for the second time.

After knocking out Robbie Lawler in the first round to win the welterweight title, Woodley felt he still had a point to prove in the division. According to oddsmakers at Bovada.lv, Thompson is actually the slight favorite to win, as he is listed with odds of -160 to win, while the champion Woodley has +130 odds. A better relationship than me and Rory (MacDonald) had.

Lando Vannata to win by TKO in Rd2.

As usual, you can only watch UFC 209 with a pay-per-view. Thompson is also a skilled striker, using more of a karate style, with many unorthodox kicks.

“You want to boo sitting up there drinking your beer and eating your popcorn?”

Wonderboy has a great work rate, but we didn’t see it much against Woodley, as he either didn’t have the space or was hesitating due to the threat of being taken down. “Let’s be honest” and ends with “If they’re the best welterweights in the world, then I should f*** up GSP!”