Tyron Woodley echoed the thought on most spectators’ minds at the post-fight press conference following his knockout loss to Jake Paul. Woodley was brutally reminded of the cost of mistakes in combat sports, and told the press as much shortly after the fight.
“I went back and I looked at it and I’m like why the f*ck did I drop my hand? I had both hands up. I knew it was coming. I was ready to block.
He threw the overhand and I don’t know if he delayed it — even if he didn’t delay it — I don’t know why I dropped my hand. In this sport, it only takes one mistake. Literally one mistake.”
Woodley opened the boxing match far busier than in their first fight, but failed to deliver any serious punches. Both fighters spent as much time in the clinch as they did exchanging blows, or attempting to do so. Woodley explained his approach to the fight and how he failed to execute the game plan.
“The goal this time around was to extend my punches, to work the body a little bit, to press him a little bit more, to be a little bit more active.
I didn’t want to let him get three rounds ahead and then start peppering the steak and then me not returning it back, because I thought I did a great job returning it back. It was a chess match to try and get a shot in. He got a couple clean shots in, I got a couple clean shots in.
But defensively, I think both of us showed that we were sharper than the last time. We grew as fighters. I can’t really tell you exactly why. Sometimes I felt like I was too tense and I may have dropped [my hands] to just breathe and loosen up.”
Woodley conceded that Paul’s shot landed clean, and the YouTuber won the fight fair and square. “When Jake hit me, the second I dropped my hands, it’s not like he wrapped around my neck.
When I dropped my hands, I kind of almost exposed it here [by my ear] so he kind of hit right here and that’s a equilibrium shot. Anybody can lose their balance on that side. Hit me with a clean, flush shot.
That’s the only thing that’s driving me up a wall. I saw the shot and right when he threw it, I had both hands up blocking it, and I don’t know if I was going to block it and counter and check hook.
I don’t know what the f*ck I was going to do. But I dropped that damn hand and he got that motherf*cker through, didn’t he?” Do you think Tyron Woodley could have done better this time around? Let us know in the comments.
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