Veteran MMA coach Din Thomas has been coaching fighters long enough not to get too attached to the outcome in the cage. But in the case of Tyron Woodley, he doesn’t consider the ex-champ’s loss at UFC 260 a bad thing – or really even a loss.
“I’m really proud of what he did,” Thomas told MMA Fighting on Monday. “He went out there and fought, and that’s what he’s been missing the last two years, and I was proud of him. I thought he fought great. He just got beat.”
Woodley was stopped in the first round of a frenetic fight with Vicente Luque in the co-main event of this past Saturday’s pay-per-view event in Las Vegas.