And still can’t get over it.
“He’s not the greatest welterweight of all time. What he is, he is the one that kissed the most ass,” Woodley told MMA Fighting. “He’s the one, ‘Oh let’s have uncle Dana on my podcast. Let me accept every fight. Let me go to Vegas and just sit and loiter in his office every week and just try to stay in his good graces and just accept whatever offer.’ If you do that long enough, you will be one of these guys that end up in the category where you’ll now be rewarded because you took last-minute notice fights, you fought injured, you didn’t complain about money, you didn’t ask for more, you didn’t ask questions, you always was trying to be goody two-shoes and brown nosing. So yeah, he’s the biggest brown-noser in the welterweight division.”
Woodley also claimed he would defeat Usman “nine out of 10 times.”
“Kamaru is not the greatest welterweight of all time,” Woodley said. “I’m the realest. I had the realest route. I had the realest reign. I was the person who dealt with the most stuff behind the scenes and still managed to win, that I don’t even speak about. I fought all the top contenders that were not big trash talkers. Nobody wanted to say a bad word about Demian Maia, Robbie Lawler or ‘Wonderboy’ [Stephen Thompson]. I fought all the up and coming guys. Even Usman and Colby [Covington] and [Darren] Till, those are all up and coming guys… He’s a good fighter. He stayed disciplined but that’s what he is. He’s not the greatest welterweight. How can you even say that? Once you say he’s the greatest and you’re trying to say he’s better than Georges [St-Pierre], nobody even listens to you after that.”