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Woodley offers to fight Bisping at UFC 213, Twitter exchange ensues

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Tyron Woodley has resurrected his friendly rivalry with Michael Bisping.

After Bisping threatened to grant Yoel Romero a title shot should Georges St-Pierre fail to make their middleweight championship bout by July's International Fight Week, welterweight king Tyron Woodley offered to meet the Brit in a clash of titleholders at UFC 213 during Wednesday's broadcast of "UFC Tonight."

"I think that if you make the fight, you say you’re going to fight this individual, July’s a great date, International Fight Week, you take the fight then. I don’t know when this September thing is coming in," Woodley said, per FOX Sports' Damon Martin. "I think Georges St-Pierre’s playing games with us. He didn’t want to fight me. He went up to middleweight, talking about going down to lightweight.

"So Michael Bisping, I stand on that offer, 10 toes down. If you want to get it on July 8, I will be there and I will be ready."

Woodley and Bisping - two of a rotating cast of program co-hosts - playfully spawned a rivalry late last year, but all that came of it was some chummy trash talk, as "The Chosen One" later met Stephen "Wonderboy" Thompson in a rematch at UFC 209, and Bisping signed on to welcome St-Pierre back to the Octagon later this year. But with GSP's designs on returning in the fall conflicting with Bisping's target date, Woodley seized the opportunity to call for a superfight of his own.

The middleweight champ promptly scoffed at the challenge while panning Woodley's already much-maligned performance in the rematch with Wonderboy, sparking a brief exchange of barbs between the champs:

With each fighter boasting a tireless mouthpiece, odds are Wednesday's episode won't mark the last of their war of words.

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