Yeah Woodley was a turd champion who never deserved his shot. Good for him though, he made the most of his opportunity.
I’d put Islam in a similar category. Never beat anyone ranked to get a title shot and has only defended against a featherweight. Was scheduled for a rematch with Olivera, and will likely defend next against someone old with a ton of hard mileage (Holloway or Gaethje) in Iraq or wherever the fuck “fight island” is and retire after that so the muzzy lovers can lick his balls and call him the GOAT.
Not everyone is a model champion like Izzy who has a long road to the title with a win over the GOAT, wipes out the top 5, avenges his losses and challenges up a weight class. Everyone fans supposedly want but bitch about it when it’s right there…
How could nobody get around his speed and power if Nathan Coy and Jordon Mein only dropped split decisions to him in Strikeforce and then Marquart KOed him?
How could nobody get around his speed and power if Shields and Rory beat him in the UFC before he got his title shot?
He got his title shot off a two fight win streak and split decision win over Kelvin.
As soon as he won the belt he fought Wonderboy to a draw.
He had a lot of good wins but the facts are he never got even 10 wins in the UFC and is nowhere near the GOATS of his division or the sport.
Woodley is and always has been an insufferable cunt, he uses his black victimhood card to prop up his delusional view of his career and accomplishments.
He’s a victim with a superiority complex, weirdest combination and just makes him dislikable as they come.
As mentioned in this thread if anything the guy got fastracked to a title shot because he knocked out Kos and stun gun.
Edit* made a mistake calling him strikeforce champ
That’s the problem with bad judging, people forgot he really beat Bendo in the WEC in the first fight. So that would have been the belt for him
He also had a resurgence late in his career, Woodley just went downhill.
Woodley was boring as fuck. All that muscle and explosiveness and still super boring. Just imagine if he WERENT a jacked black guy, and was some doughy ass white motherfucker. He would be the sam alvey of 170, had never won shit, and nobody would have cared about him.
Him being a black jacked dude who juiced his way to a bodybuilder style physique is literally the only reason anybody talks about him at all. That’s the hilarious part. He didn’t get far given his physical tools, imagine if he were born without those, you know, those physical traits that he says are “keeping him down”