Tyron Woodley UFC welterweight Tyron Woodley sees interim featherweight champion Conor McGregor on par with women’s bantamweight champ Ronda Rousey when it comes to star power. But Woodley, the No. 4 ranked fighter in the NOS Energy Drink MMA welterweight rankings , said they’re both in a different league than one person – deposed light heavyweight champ Jon Jones – when it comes to their bankability. “I think when Jon comes back, he’ll take his spot as the highest-paid (fighter) in the UFC,” Woodley (15-3 MMA, 5-2 UFC), who next fights ex-champ and No. 2 ranked Johny Hendricks (17-3 MMA, 12-3 UFC) in Saturday’s UFC 192 pay-per-view co-headliner at Houston’s Toyota Center, told MMAjunkie. In a recent interview, Rousey claimed she is the highest-paid UFC fighter just two years after she became the promotion’s first female champion
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UFC 192′s Tyron Woodley: Jon Jones will be highest-paid fighter when he returns – MMA Junkie