Maybe it is due to Dana White’s constant aspersions of his welterweight champion Tyron Woodley that the 170-pound class hasn’t quite seemed to be the glamour division it used to be under longtime ex-champ Georges St-Pierre. In reality, the collection is about as interesting as it’s been in the last decade.
As we learned at Thursday’s UFC 235 press conference, Woodley has a real challenger on his hands, both in name and in spirit. Kamaru Usman, who leapfrogged the rest of the contenders in 2018 with three wins during the year, definitely seems game.