Tyron Woodley is the current UFC Welterweight Champion. He is also preparing to face Stephen Thompson in a rematch at UFC 209. Woodley also aspires to be in the UFC Hall Of Fame, and thinks he's well on his way to being there.
?Certain fights that I think solidify my legacy ? obviously fighting ?Wonderboy? again, maybe fighting Robbie Lawler again, and fighting one of the Diaz brothers, maybe Conor, maybe Bisping, and definitely Georges St-Pierre,? Woodley told MMA Junkie. ?If I can sustain victories over those guys, I?m 100 percent a (UFC) Hall of Famer. I knew the fight against ?Wonderboy? would take place; I didn?t know that it was important to necessarily run it immediately right back.?
Woodley also talked about his game plan in his first fight with Thompson at UFC 205, a bout that ended via majority draw. Woodley initially thought he won the fight, but a scoring and announcing snafu changed all of that.
?Some of the tactics I used in the fight weren?t really part of the game plan,? Woodley said. ?The game plan that we had wasn?t really executed. I went out there and fought well. I had great moments in the fight. He had great moments in the fight. There?s things that I planned on doing that I didn?t do, so I can now bring those things into the game plan. I also get to continue to expand upon that performance.?
UFC 209 takes place on Saturday, February 11 from the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Woodley-Thomas rematch is the main event.