Jack Della Maddalena is a “good fighter,” according to Tyron Woodley.
All three would have smoked the 28 year-old Aussie.
“He wouldn’t even have been in my crosshairs,” Woodley told Action Network. “I wouldn’t have been looking at him in the scope. He wouldn’t have gone through Carlos (Condit). He definitely wouldn’t have gotten through Robbie (Lawler). ‘Wonderboy’ (Thompson) does better against pure strikers than all of us. I think [Della Maddalena] is a good fighter. I never take away from people, it’s hard to win a championship just because there’s so much pressure. But I can just think of 10 people in my division at that time that was the champion that would have beat him.”
“I think Islam wins,” Woodley continued. “But once again, if Islam came up (in weight), and we were sitting there (in my era), he’s not winning. I think he would give a better match just because of his wrestling ability, he would have given ‘Wonderboy’ problems, he would have given Robbie problems, just because of his wrestling. But if you put Islam against Johny Hendricks, he gets knocked out. You put him against me, I think he gets beat and potentially knocked out. Islam might do okay against [Georges St-Pierre], because of the wrestling, but just stylistically, the heavy-handed wrestlers that were in that era, he would have a problem with.”
Something tells me Della Maddalena won’t be looking over his shoulder.