Sherdog’s Top 10: UFC Welterweight Title Fights

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7. Tyron Woodley vs. Stephen Thompson
UFC 205 “Alvarez vs. McGregor”
Nov. 12, 2016 | New York
Their score was left unsettled after five rounds, as Woodley retained the Ultimate Fighting Championship welterweight title with a majority draw against Thompson in the UFC 205 co-main event at Madison Square Garden. Two of the three cageside judges scored it 47-47, while a third saw it 48-47 for Woodley. A two-time NCAA All-American wrestler at the University of Missouri, Woodley cut the challenger across the bridge of the nose with an elbow strike in the first round and nearly finished him in the fourth, where he wrecked the South Carolinian with a pair of devastating right hands and netted 10-8 scores from two of the judges. Thompson controlled the fight from distance in the second, third and fifth rounds, though his work was not enough to force a changing of the guard at 170 pounds. They met for a second time four months later, with Woodley emerging as a majority decision winner.

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