BREAKING | Tyron Woodley to Train Floyd Mayweather in MMA

By Justin Golightly - March 9, 2018 What are the odds? Turns out pretty good. Floyd Mayweather has been teasing a transition into MMA like a politician, flipping and flopping on whether it will really happy or not. Dana White revealed the talks were true, until Mayweather called him a liar and then proceeded to continue to post social media winks on his account. However, this recent news is the biggest confirmation yet. UFC welterweight champion Tyron Woodley had linked up with Moeny Mayweather to help prepare him for his UFC debut. “Floyd Mayweather is interested in taking a mixed martial art bout, maybe a few of them, so who better than The Chose One to teach him the ropes on how we get off the ropes and get in the cage. I saw him at the Jordan party during the All-Star weekend, we started chatting about training MMA and we decided let’s connect, let’s hook up in Vegas and do some training. Get him ready for MMA. Y’all think it’s a joke but think about this: Floyd Mayweather’s one of the best strikers of all times. How many guys in the UFC that can’t wrestle, and can’t grapple and they consider themselves a stand-up fighter? If they have to stand across from one of the greatest strikers ever, they’re gonna be in a world of smoke.” “We’re already getting it set-up. First thing we’ll work on is kicks. Blocking the kicks. There is no point in him trying to learn how to kick. Defending kicks, identifying when a body is about to throw a kick. No one can just suddenly, sneaky throw a kick besides like an Barboza or Jose Aldo. Secondly, obviously defending takedowns. If he’s able to evade punches in a fraction of a second, make people look stupid and miss a million times, then he can learn wrestling defense. Then obviously he’ll decide which fight he wants to take, then we’ll gameplan out that.” — Tyron Woodley speaking on TMZ Sport’s The Hollywood Beatdown. After laying out the training strategy he is going to implement with Floyd Mayweather, Tyron Woodley went on to say that he thinks the billionaire boxer would be ready for his first fight in two-and-half to three months. After that, it’s about picking his opponent and entering into a proper camp. As far as his first fight in the UFC, Woodley cited Conor McGregor as a possibility, which would completely turn the tables on who would be the favorite in another multi-million dollar fight between the two. http://www.bjpenn.com/mma-news/tyron-woodley/breaking-tyron-woodley-to-train-floyd-mayweather-in-mma/

Comments (20)

I think this is in the same ballpark his last fight + Manny was in. That $100M-$250M region. And I mean f#ck the UFC sold for 4B recently you think the UFC is gonna put 25% of their value into a multi-fight deal with a 41yr old professional boxer who only knows boxing? Its a solid enough 1 fight deal for the UFC, but its a multi-fight deal cuz who the f#ck is Floyd even going to fight? Conor 4 times? That would mean Floyd would have to beat Conor at least 1 time in the octagon

8y ago

SAINTSTEVE

Mcgregor turns into a wrestler real quick when he starts getting hit. That's the assumption is that if Floyd was getting the better of him standing up that he would try to make a wrestling match of it, unless he was too proud to allow himself to be beaten at his own game. It reasons that the worse matchup for both of them would be a wrestler who would look to take it to the ground firstly.

8y ago

Boxfan83

It would take years to develop a ground game but McGregor is a striker so is potentially a better matchup than someone like Khabib who would ground and pound him. And it will make another boatload of money for them. Mcgregor turns into a wrestler real quick when he starts getting hit.

8y ago

SAINTSTEVE

8y ago

Boksfan

James Toney 2.0

8y ago

Michael1437

Name 1 person that has mastered MMA... I'll wait. Never said anyone has mastered MMA, but to say that a guy will do very well in a sport because he's good at another sport is incorrect in my opinion, sure he could be good, but we'd have to wait and see.

8y ago

M_Bison

Woodley is a pussay ducking Colby Covington

8y ago

Beercules

So is this CNN fake news or what?

8y ago

Scipio2009

I don't think a $1B deal makes sense in the first place. I think Floyd is just talking. Fair enough, then

8y ago

Scipio2009

Yea I get all that. But logically who is Floyd fighting in the UFC who's gonna recoup this $1B investment? Or basically who's Floyd fighting BESIDES Conor who's gonna make the UFC $250M+ 3 other times? I'm a UFC fan & I don't see how its really possible. There is the Conor fight....and the Conor fight. Thats it. And unless something crazy goes down thats a 1 & done situation. Honestly, I have no idea; intro fight, Conor, and a Conor rematch? Unless everyone was just shooting nonsense, the $1b deal doesn't make sense any other way.

8y ago

jmrf4435

the rumored opponent is cm punk who will be drained and has zero mma experience himself(aside from one fight in which he lost in a minute) this is the classic floyd con. LOL I would watch that LOLOLOL CM punk could mess floyd up on the ground, floyd would likely blitz him and end it early Unless Floyd learns something and isn't an old man yet CM punk is the richest scrub ever. Floyd would probably pay CM off knowing him

8y ago

Bigg_Rigg

Floyd gets molested inside of the octagon.

8y ago

daggum

These top MMA guys are olypic level WRESTLERS, and collegiate division 1 wrestlers. It CANNOT BE MASTERED over night the rumored opponent is cm punk who will be drained and has zero mma experience himself(aside from one fight in which he lost in a minute) this is the classic floyd con.

8y ago

jmrf4435

These top MMA guys are olypic level WRESTLERS, and collegiate division 1 wrestlers. It CANNOT BE MASTERED over night

8y ago

Scipio2009

I think this is in the same ballpark his last fight + Manny was in. That $100M-$250M region. And I mean f#ck the UFC sold for 4B recently you think the UFC is gonna put 25% of their value into a multi-fight deal with a 41yr old professional boxer who only knows boxing? Its a solid enough 1 fight deal for the UFC, but its a multi-fight deal cuz who the f#ck is Floyd even going to fight? Conor 4 times? WME spent $4b to acquire the UFC, and needs to find ways to make that money back; it's why all of the non-divisional fights are happening, why Conor is being given the leeway, and even Brock Lesnar is getting another look over.

8y ago

Scipio2009

4-7 fights? Who's saying or speculating Floyd is having 4-7 fights. Well besides you I guess. I've not seen anything said or speculated along those lines. My assumption is Floyd would come back for 1 fight vs Conor or MAYBE a test fight vs a body & then Conor. Getting $1b off of one fight isn't happening; Frankly, doubt he gets there off of three fights either.

8y ago

champion4ever

Bruh. If you had a half a billion (idk how much he gots, but lets just use half a bill as an example) & you got offered a quarter mill (again lets just use this as an example who knows how much this could be worth) for 25 minutes or less of entertaining combat sports fans are you seriously telling me you'd pass on that? Come on man don't bs. Personally, I believe he is broke. Otherwise why would he risk his undefeated record? Floyd is a very proud and pompous man. Once he loses his 0 he would never be the same again and likewise boxing fans and the boxing public would never perceive or look at him the same again. His reputation and legacy would then be forever tainted with a blemish on it. It's very sad that he is prostituting himself like this just so he can turn a quick buck and get some much needed money from the public.

8y ago

Mindgames

im telling ya right now....... dont be surprised if floyd does EXTREMELY well in mma... boxing IS a martial art and if boxing had titles like karate/etc he would be at the grandmaster levels Really not the sport to start at 40 though bro, especially at high levels. Leg kicks are another thing entirely.

8y ago

joesaiditstrue

If Floyd wanted more money he'd just go back to boxing. This isn't real you dirtbags 😂

8y ago

djtmal

Dude work on your jokes. You and they suck. you just get those tights in so ellerbe can have everything tailored to fit...chop chop

8y ago