Ferguson's Tyron Woodley finds activist voice as biggest fight of career looms
The welterweight champion and Ferguson native, who defends his title on Saturday at UFC 205, is keen to use his platform for meaningful activismUFC welterweight champion Tyron Woodley is an African American athlete in the modern age of sports activism. He does not take this responsibility lightly. He grew up in Ferguson, Missouri, and that fact alone gives him a voice on racial matters for it was his town, his neighborhood, his very street where Michael Brown was shot and his body lay for hours baking in the summer sun. As a young black man in Ferguson he was racially profiled, pulled over needlessly by police and once thrown in a paddy wagon with a group of friends because he...