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Former UFC Welterweight Champion Tyron Woodley recently started his own promotion, which is called The Realest International Promotion (TRIP).
Woodley appears to be on the road back to MMA, but potential fights against former two division UFC champion Georges St. Pierre and Nick Diaz won’t be happening anytime soon.
“I’m looking to fight guys that are legendary to me,” Woodley told TMZ (transcript via Farah Hannoun of MMA Junkie), “that I feel like may not have gotten the respect and the money that they should have gotten when they were at the top of the top. Like Georges St-Pierre, I offered him a dumb bag. He said no. ‘I’m not in that world anymore.’ I offered Nick Diaz a dumb bag. When I say dumb, I mean pushing to eight figures, a lot of money. … They both said no.
“Sorry, Nick didn’t say no. Nick liked the comment, so I don’t know what that means. But people that I respect, people that I thought were GOATs, and now that the money is coming to the sport, I want to go to those people first to get them paid with me because it’s a partnership. Whether I like Jake (Paul) or not, I was a business partner with him for two fights. This is a business, you got a partner, it’s not choreographed.”
GSP and Diaz are both under contract with the UFC, so even if they had accepted the fight against Woodley, both would need permission from the UFC for everything to happen.
The former welterweight champion also claims that TRIP will be more than just an MMA promotion.
“It’s called The Realest International Promotion, TRIP,” Woodley said. “We’re promoting all things art, so we’re not just doing mixed martial arts. Obviously I would be a fool not to do that just because that’s my background and my base. We’re doing music, concerts, festivals, cryptocurrency, e-sporting events, boxing, and then we just doing a lot of crossover.”
