What to know about Tyron Woodley with Jake Paul before the start of the Showtime PPV boxing match

After the expulsion of former UFC fighter Ben Askren last April, many fans called on Jake Paul to increase his level of competition and fight a trained boxer. Instead, Paul fought with the former Tyron Woodley UFC welterweight champion.

On the one hand, Woodley is not an intense boxer who will provide answers that accumulate the skills of social media agents as a real solution. On the other hand, Woodley is the most dangerous opponent of Paul’s young career, by far, the champion of high-powered wrestling sports.

For those who are interested in going to the circus on Sunday night but don’t know Woodley, let’s take a look at some things to know.

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Woodley is one of the best weightlifters in the UFC

The UFC had a push to become Woodley’s weightlifting champion, calling it the biggest welterweight in promotion history. That was never true, at least for Georges St-Pierre in any reasonable list that was ranked above him. It’s still not so true with the main tenure of current champion Kamaru Usman. That, of course, is arguably one of the best 170-pound fighters Woodley has ever entered the octagon.

After a 3-2 UFC career, Woodley led a 6-0-1 race to win the knockout round of the UFC legend Robbie Lawler. In four fights he would continue to hold the belt successfully before Usman suffered a one-sided loss.

There is no denying that Woodley had a successful career and that the tenure of the title was more than enough to place him among the elite elite in welterweight history, even if it is not the 170-pound AHAT

The best days of his struggle are in the past

Despite being an elite Woodley, those days ended against Usman. Although he is not ashamed to lose against Usman, Woodley was completely effective in the fight. Usman beat Woodley 336 and 60 in all strikes and 141 and 34 in major strikes. The fight felt like Woodley’s passive offensive style made the chickens come home. As a result, 22% of their professional professions ended in a tie, division or majority decision.

Woodley would end his UFC career with four straight losses, all but the last but the wrong statistics.

Strikingly powerful but with little output

Woodley’s striking is one of his greatest tools and one of his greatest weaknesses. He has true power in a single blow, and seems to have fallen in love to the detriment of his other skills. Many of Woodley’s fights saw his back to the cage, allowing his opponent to open with strikes as he tried to free his heavy right hand. When he started catching up with Age Woodley, that style started to work less, he was able to give Luque a hard fight for four minutes in the final UFC fight.

Woodley’s tendency to find himself in a tight fight on scorecards was largely a low-exit style. Without the threat of using a strong fighting game, Woodley will have even fewer openings to get his right hand so bent over his MMA career.

As a younger man, with his fight based on the game and with a striking history of passive vision, Woodley is asked to join and resent Paul in the ring.