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Tyron Woodley no longer feels he has to beat GSP to be best welterweight ever

Georges St-Pierre is no longer the name up in proverbial lights for Tyron Woodley.

There was a time, Woodley said after UFC 228, that he believed he could not be the best welterweight of all time unless he defeated St-Pierre. Those days are gone, the current UFC welterweight champion said following his dominant, second-round submission win over Darren Till on Saturday night.

“I told myself that I had to beat him to be the greatest, but I don’t,” Woodley said at the post-fight press conference. “This sport is different.