Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) welterweight champion Tyron Woodley is from Ferguson, a rough-and-tumble suburb of St. Louis, Missouri. So don’t treat “The Chosen One” like some busboy from Weenie Hut Jr.
That means you, UFC lightweight champion Conor McGregor.
Now more than one month removed from his backstage confrontation with “Notorious” (watch it), Woodley explains the dark place he (almost) went to when the trash-talking Irishman was posturing backstage.
“I try not to take myself back to those dark areas, I try to stay sophisticated, stay professional but a few people can take you out of that element and bring that Ferguson back out of you and he almost did it.