If there wasn’t much of a rivalry between Tyron Woodley and Kamaru Usman before UFC 235’s kickoff press conference, that certainly changed on Thursday night.
Woodley and Usman meet on March 2 in the co-main event of UFC 235, where Woodley will look to make a fifth consecutive defense of his welterweight title. And at the first press conference this week in Las Vegas to promote the event, it became quickly apparent that there is plenty of heat simmering between the two 170-pound standouts.
“You better not come in 30 percent,” Woodley told an already fired-up Usman after an exchange between the Nigerian challenger and Woodley’s coach Ben Askren, who also was on the dais for his fight against Robbie Lawler.