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Woodley: GSP doesn't want to fight me because I may concuss him

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Judging by George St-Pierre's initial retirement, Tyron Woodley believes he's too dangerous for the former champion to challenge anytime soon.

Woodley says the main reasons for GSP's 2013 retirement were concerns about the rampant use of PEDs among fighters and concussions. Having confidence in his punching power over the likes of Damian Maia, Michael Bisping, and Stephen Thompson, Woodley says he's not the matchup GSP wants.

"To be flat out honest, I don't think he wants to fight me," Woodley told Ariel Helwani on The MMA Hour. "I think he wants to fight someone like Stephen Thompson. (GSP will) think, '(Thompson) is someone I've trained with, he's not going to hit me with a concussion.'

What guy that's on the list (of potential contenders) is going to give him a concussion besides me?"

Dana White had called for GSP to be booked against the winner of Woodley's UFC 214 fight versus Maia, but "The Chosen One" believes that a win for him will mean a new opponent for the Montreal native.

"If Demian Maia comes out on top this weekend, I think (GSP will) fight him," said Woodley, the current welterweight champ. "I just don't think that he wants to come in after three years and face a guy like me who is completely determined not to lose his belt."

However, if Woodley is the one who gets the win Saturday, he will be just as clueless as everyone else as to what will be next for St-Pierre.

"I don't even want to talk about GSP because GSP is playing everybody," said Woodley. "I don't know if he really wants to fight. I don't know if he really wants to fight me or if he wants to fight Bisping."

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