Champ Tyron Woodley threatens to give shot to Demian Maia over 'entitled' Stephen Thompson

After UFC welterweight champion Tyron Woodley and former opponent Stephen Thompson fought to a majority draw in November at UFC 205, it seemed like the challenger wouldn’t need to do much campaigning for a rematch.

That, it turned out, wasn’t the case. In spite of Thompson’s (13-1-1 MMA, 8-1-1 UFC) tireless requests for a second shot at the belt – and, of course, its owner – Woodley (16-3-1 MMA, 6-2-1 UFC) has remained noncommittal. He’s expressed interest in “money fights,” against UFC middleweight champ Michael Bisping and vet Nick Diaz, and even asking for Twitter help to pick from his array of options.

So, on Sunday, Thompson decided to put a little bit of public pressure on the champ with a tweet showing that he’s already signed up.

Woodley, who’s known for his somewhat omnipresent Twitter personality, needed less than five minutes to reply with a peculiar choice of joke – which Thompson wasted no time to mock (via Twitter):

After the not-so-sophisticated exchange, Thompson got serious about the callout, saying he expects to meet the current titleholder at UFC 209, a pay-per-view event scheduled for March 4 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.

On his end, Woodley once again explained why he doesn’t think Thompson’s case for the title is as open-and-shut as “Wonderboy” may think (via Twitter):

In light of the “overly entitled” attitude of Thompson, ranked No. 2 in the latest USA TODAY Sports/MMAjunkie MMA welterweight rankings, No. 1 Woodley then threatened to give a shot to No. 5 Demian Maia – whom he’d previously dismissed as the least rewarding fight of the bunch (via Twitter):

The notoriously reserved Maia, however, seems to have opted out of the Twitter beef, choosing to call out Meryl Streep instead (via Twitter):

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