You got it. It's about them getting paid, not a fight. If Woodley treated it as a fight, and hit him in his kidneys, the side of the knee, the ankle, pulled down on his head, bent his arms backwards, he'd murder the kid. But to do that requires some amount of malice. In all these conjobs both fighters have zero malice, they're palpably grateful to each other for the pay day. So it's never a real fight, it's just a boxing match, a test of skills, and in the skill of boxing Woodley is way too inferior, way too washed up, and way too small compared to Paul to stand any chance.