Tyron Woodley has missed out on several big fights since leaving the UFC in 2021.
The former welterweight champion famously crossed over to boxing to face Jake Paul, who he took the distance when they first met before being badly knocked out in their December 2021 rematch.
Woodley has fought since, but that doesn’t mean the offers haven’t been rolling in.
‘The Chosen One’ recently revealed that he was approached about a short-notice clash with former World’s Strongest Man Eddie Hall.
Ultimately, Woodley opted against facing the 26-stone behemoth, who scored a savage KO win when he made his debut in the sport in a strange 2vs1 fight with TikTok stars Jamil and Jamel Neffat.
“I’m not down for these three-week notice fights to build somebody else’s name up,” Woodley said on the Overdogs Podcast.
“You see the heavyweight dude that fought two motherf****** at one time [at] 365 [lbs]? Motherf****** asked me to fight this dude on three weeks’ notice in Ireland in MMA.
Woodley went on to reveal he was much more interested in two boxing offers he received from Floyd Mayweather and KSI, who he claims ‘b****** out’ of facing him.
He added: “I had some guy’s b**** out,”
“I was supposed to fight Floyd in June. It was never supposed to be [John] Gotti [III]. That fight was me originally.
“I was supposed to fight KSI in January last year. He flaked out and took Dillon Danis.”
Woodley claims he also had an offer to fight former UFC star Mike Perry, who joined him on the podcast after his recent KO defeat to Paul.
“S***, I got offered to fight you, Mike,” Woodley claimed.
“I’m pretty sure you got offered to fight me. I said, ‘I’m not fighting my dog for no f****** peanuts’. If we was gonna fight for real, we would have fought in the UFC.
“And that’s a hard ass fight, he at the top of the game.”
Despite his frustrations with fight politics, Woodley seems intent on returning to the ring. The 42-year-old believes either Nick or Nate Diaz would be the ideal opponent when he does.
“Nate and I have already kind of been talked about fighting on several times behind the scenes,” he concluded. “I thought Nate and I boxing would make a lot of sense.
“Or to be honest, I really kind of wanna fight Nick. Nick was the original OG. He’s fighting [Vicente] Luque, which is not a great fight for him.
As Woodley mentioned, Nick is booked to face Luque in the UFC.
Nate is currently a free agent and looking for an opponent after outpointing Jorge Masvidal during their boxing rematch in July.
