Tyron Woodley: There’s Honor in Fighters from Same Camp Facing Each Other for Title

While both Tyron Woodley and Robbie Lawler have American Top Team affiliations, the UFC 201 headlining combatants aren’t your typical training partners. During a recent media session in Los Angeles, Lawler pointed out that he has rarely crossed paths with Woodley since he set up shop in Coconut Creek, Fla. Woodley, meanwhile, trains primarily out of the St. Louis-based ATT Evolution camp. “Woodley was there before me, he’s been part of ATT long before I got there, but he hasn’t been down in Coconut Creek doing his training camps. Like I don’t think he’s been down there for two years and he was rarely down there before so I don’t really look at him as a teammate,” Lawler said. Woodley confirms that he and Lawler have only wrestled and sparred a handful of times and he doesn’t take the welterweight champion’s comments personally. In fact, even though ATT owner Dan Lambert initially offered Woodley the chance to train in Florida for UFC 201, the Strikeforce veteran thought better of it. “For me in general I’ve been blessed to have hospitality from several different camps I’ve been able to train at and get an approval by the American Top Team guys to go …

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