When discussing fighter pay with Johnson on a podcast he says “I’m not going out there and making the same as Cowboy Cerrone, that motherfucker never touched gold in his life. No, its just a principle thing, sometimes when you African American in this game they think you should just be appreciative…”
Maybe Cowboy would have touched gold if he got a title shot off a two fight win streak like Woodley, we will never know.
Here is the deal with Woodley, he entered the UFC on a loss via TKO and then loses to Shields and MacDonald before putting a two fight win streak together that included getting his title shot off a split decision win over Gastelum.
When fighters like Woodley or TJ get title shots off split decision wins it is because that is who UFC wants in the title shot situation.
Woodley had power and thats the kind of fighter UFC will fast track to a title shot over a Shields or a Maia.
What he ignores is Cowboy had to win eight UFC fights in a row to get his title shot. Had to beat Alvarez, Bendo, Miller, Barboza etc… to do it. When Cowboy got his UFC title shot he already had almost twice as many UFC wins as Woodley ever got in his entire UFC career.
Woodley never put together more than a three fight win streak in his entire UFC career and never even had twenty wins in his pro MMA career but the way he spins things is nuts.
Woodley only had nine UFC wins in his entire career but says crazy stuff like fans don’t treat him like they treat GSP because he is black and off the wall stuff like that.
How are you gonna get a UFC title shot off a two fight win streak and still pretend UFC is out to discriminate against you?
Its crazy how Woodley used to scream racism at UFC when they gifted him a title shot as a 5-2 UFC fighter because they liked his style.
They put Maia on the road to nowhere for his WW title shot and he didn’t get it until he was 40 years old and had a 7 fight win streak and you didn’t hear him cry about discrimination towards Brazilian grapplers without big power.