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UFC Welterweight Champ Tyron Woodley Teases Move to 185 Pounds in Late 2019

Tyron Woodley believes he can conquer the top of the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s middleweight division. After all, he already owns a victory over Kelvin Gastelum, and the reigning champion, Robert Whittaker, previously competed at 170 pounds before moving up a weight class.

"People in the middleweight [division], they need to watch out too. I might slide up on one of y'all by the end of the year," Woodley said Monday on Ariel Helwani’s MMA Show. "Wipe out the division clean at welterweight and go up there and either beat (Kelvin) Gastelum up again or take out Robert Whittaker.