Former UFC welterweight champion, Tyron Woodley is a very talented man. He was an NCAA Division 1 collegiate wrestler like former UFC champ, Brock Lesnar. And Woodley even managed to win two All-American championships. He has also starred in several movies, mostly action films. In 2017, Woodley appeared alongside legendary “Die Hard” actor, Bruce Willis, in a crime comedy movie called “Once Upon a Time in Venice”.
Willis, who is now 67, was recently diagnosed with untreatable dementia. He was earlier diagnosed with aphasia but that disease has since progressed into a form of dementia. But back in 2017, in their movie, Willis, who played a private detective took down the former UFC champion with a single shot in one scene.
When you #StandUp for #WoodHarris and get #SatDown by #BruceWillis 😭😭 #SetLife Go see "Once Upon a Time in Venice" @ufc pic.twitter.com/oH5khVYPJJ
— Tyron T-Wood Woodley (@TWooodley) June 20, 2017
Woodley shared the scene from the movie where Bruce hits him in the face with a briefcase and sits him down. In a social media post promoting the movie, he wrote, “When you #StandUp for #WoodHarris and get #SatDown by #BruceWillis 😭😭 #SetLife Go see “Once Upon a Time in Venice”. Other cast members of the movie included Aquaman lead, Jason Momoa, and Jean Grey actress, Famke Janssen.
4 years later, in December 2021, fans would see real-life imitating art after Jake Paul knocked out Woodley in their second fight. However, watching, the legendary actor dropping Woodley back when “The Chosen One” was a champion, was quite the moment.
Tyron Woodley has worked with Bruce Willis and other Hollywood celebrities
As mentioned prior, Tyron Woodley has appeared in several movies, as well as a few TV series. In fact, Woodley’s first appeared on TV as himself on the MTV reality show, Bully Beatdown. After this, Tyron made his silver screen debut, appearing in the mixed martial arts documentary, Fight Life in 2013.
Two years later, in 2015, Woodley would show off his range as an actor, starring in the widely acclaimed N.W.A. biopic, Straight Outta Compton. He would then shift his focus away from Hollywood, playing a wrestler in the Bollywood movie, Sultan. Later, Woodley would join fellow mixed martial artists, Dave Bautista, Georges St-Pierre, and Gina Carano in the cast of Jean-Claude Van Damme’s Kickboxer: Vengeance.
Tyron Woodley will guest star in ‘COBRA KAI’ Season 5. pic.twitter.com/Hsu6ddZgLS
— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) August 16, 2022
One year later, he would appear in the aforementioned, Once Upon a Time in Venice in 2017. That year, Woodly starred in 3 movies, Breakout, Office Uprising, and The Favorite. He would also play the character of “Travis” on “The Night Shift”, an NBC medical drama.
Since then, Woodley has starred in the movie, Cut Throat City, and the massively acclaimed YouTube series, Cobra Kai. He even attributed his loss against Jake Paul to the series’ grueling schedule. Even so, it is nice to see Woodley have a great time acting after retiring from combat sports.