Action Network<\/a>. \u201cI wouldn\u2019t have been looking at him in the scope. He wouldn\u2019t have gone through Carlos (Condit). He definitely wouldn\u2019t have gotten through Robbie (Lawler). \u2018Wonderboy\u2019 (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\u2019s hard to win a championship just because there\u2019s 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.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cI think Islam wins,\u201d Woodley continued. \u201cBut once again, if Islam came up (in weight), and we were sitting there (in my era), he\u2019s not winning. I think he would give a better match just because of his wrestling ability, he would have given \u2018Wonderboy\u2019 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.\u201d<\/p>\n
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