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Kamaru Usman and Darren Till are probably the two brightest prospects at 170 pounds, so it’s likely an inevitability that they’ll come face-to-face inside the Octagon at some point. That meeting may come sooner than most think. Usman is fre…
Kamaru Usman and Darren Till are probably the two brightest prospects at 170 pounds, so it’s likely an inevitability that they’ll come face-to-face inside the Octagon at some point. That meeting may come sooner than most think. Usman is fresh off a decision win over Demian Maia from the UFC’s Chile event last month, while […]
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“Wonderboy” says those knee kicks really took a toll…
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Stephen “Wonderboy” Thompson lost a competitive fight to hometown favorite Darren Till in Liverpool last weekend, and Till injured “Wonderboy’s” knee midway through the fight, which Thompson says made it difficult to move the way he wanted to move.
The fight was almost entirely contested on the feet, as the karateka and Muay Thai practitioner went to work for five long rounds. Till worked some effected kicks to “Wonderboy’s” knee before scoring a knockdown later in the fight.
“Wonderboy” admits those knee kicks from Till took their toll, and the injury to his left knee, which he’s had multiple surgeries on in the past, made it impossible for him to get his game going, Thompson revealed on The MMA Hour:
“It was almost like this dude was trying to put me out. He hit me in the knee and after that my movement was pretty much out the window. I was more focused on keeping my knee — it was just another thing to think about out there.”
“Hopefully it’s nothing major. But it sucks, man. It really does. Disappointed by the whole situation and then coming out of it with an injury like that, it makes it all worse. It was more trying to keep my leg from collapsing than anything. It just really felt unstable in that fifth round.
“I was trying to hit the guy hard, I really was. I just was unable to put myself in a situation to do so.”
Till took home a unanimous decision victory, although many fight fans and fellow fighters believe “Wonderboy” should have taken the judges’ decision.
Till ended up weighing in several pounds overweight the day before the fight and was forced to stay under 188 pounds on fight day. He managed to do so, and the fight went on as scheduled.
While the two looked to basically be the same size, “Wonderboy” concedes that Till is definitely thicker and sturdier than he looks:
“When you make contact [with an opponent], you can tell you’re pretty much the same size,” he said. “When I would kick or even side kick or even try to punch Darren Till, you could tell that he was a pretty solid dude. You can’t really see it in his upper body, but you can see it in his lower body. He’s thick — thick guy.”
What do you think of this kind of knee kicks employed by Jon Jones, Darren Till and the like?
Are they a cheap tactic designed solely injure a fighter unfairly, or is it just a legitimate MMA technique?
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Rafael dos Anjos has advised Darren Till to move up in weight in order to avoid more difficult cuts:
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Former UFC lightweight champion Rafael dos Anjos is no stranger to difficult weight cuts.
After dropping back-to-back defeats at lightweight, dos Anjos decided to move up in weight and it has worked out for the better, as he’s won three-straight fights and is set to take on Colby Covington for the interim 170-pound title in the co-main event of next weekend’s (June 9, 2018) UFC 225 from Chicago.
Due to his experience, dos Anjos can relate to rising welterweight contender Darren Till, who missed weight ahead of his UFC Liverpool main event against Stephen Thompson last weekend. And although he won the bout, a video was later released detailing just how difficult Till’s cut was.
Because of this, dos Anjos expects Till to eventually move up to 185 pounds:
“I don’t see him fighting very long in this welterweight division,” dos Anjos told MMAFighting.com. “Every time you make weight, it gets harder and harder and harder. I’ve been there before. I feel like every time I made 155, it was getting harder and harder harder every time. That’s gonna happen to him and he’s gonna go to 185 eventually.
“He didn’t make weight, after all that,” dos Anjos said. “And we could not even watch the whole video, right? And he was 3-1/2 pounds over — off the extra pound. If he would fight for a title, it would be 4-1/2 pounds. He’s a great fighter, a young guy. But he’s going to go to 185 eventually.”
As far as his own career goes, dos Anjos recalled his troubling cuts down to 155 pounds, while confirming that moving up was the ‘best’ decision he’s made:
“After I made weight, I couldn’t stand up for like 40 minutes to one hour,” dos Anjos said. “I lied down on the ground, on the hallway of the hotel, by my room, by my room’s door. The guy said, ‘OK, Rafa, it’s time to make weight.’ I couldn’t stand up. I just couldn’t walk. But I did it.
“It doesn’t make any sense,” dos Anjos said. “I’m passing through this, getting dehydrated, almost dying to the next day getting punched in the head. It just don’t make sense. I’ve gotta make changes. I think it was the best thing I did.”
Would you prefer Till to move up and compete and middleweight?
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Although Darren Till continued his ascension through the UFC Welterweight rankings, in Conor McGregor fashion, shooting up from the bottom of the top ten to number two after defeating the previously number one ranked contender, Stephen “Wonderboy…
Although Darren Till continued his ascension through the UFC Welterweight rankings, in Conor McGregor fashion, shooting up from the bottom of the top ten to number two after defeating the previously number one ranked contender, Stephen “Wonderboy” Thompson, in the main event of the UFC Liverpool event last month, Rafael dos Anjos doesn’t think his […]
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This commissioner may have a good point:
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The harrowing video of Darren Till’s UFC Liverpool weight cut is causing a stir in the MMA world.
The 25-year-old rising star missed weight by three-and-a-half pounds before his main event bout against Stephen Thompson in his home city of Liverpool, England, forcing him to pay 30 percent of his purse to “Wonderboy” and weigh in at no more than 188 pounds on fight day.
He did those things and went on to win a close, controversial unanimous decision over Till in a call many are still calling hometown cooking almost a week later. However, when video of Till cutting weight (he’s known as the biggest welterweight in the UFC by a sizable margin) was released by his sponsor Paddy Power, a controversy of a different kind arose.
With weight misses seemingly an all-too-common theme at early weigh-ins for every UFC card and the health impacts of huge cuts a growing hot topic in MMA, a prominent combats sports commissioner is calling for Till’s corner to be suspended for putting his health in jeopardy.
Mike Mazzulli, the chief of the Association of Boxing Commissions and the director of the Mohegan Tribe Department of Athletic Regulation, told MMAjunkie that Till’s weight cut, where he reportedly lost his vision momentarily and used “colonic hydrotherapy” to lose more weight, that another death from weight cutting is a foregone conclusion if people like Till’s corner continue allowing fighters to go to such extremes. Because of that, he believes Till’s corner should be suspended:
“I was appalled seeing seven people sit there and push this kid to the point where he lost his vision.
“They should suspend those corner people that tried to help him cut that kind of weight, first of all,” he said.
With the video causing so much discussion, the UFC is reportedly investigating Till’s cut. California State Athletic Commission Executive Director Andy Foster, who has long championed efforts to make weight cutting safer in MMA, also plans to make a statement on the disturbing video.
There was talk it’s already time for Till to move up to middleweight even when it’s only known that he missed weight a second time, and the video obviously makes matters significantly worse. If Till were fighting under Mazzulli’s licensing jurisdiction, he said he would have to provide him with a doctor’s note that it was safe for him to compete at welterweight.
But ultimately, he said it was a fighter’s team’s responsibility to protect the safety of their athlete:
“They think it’s OK to do what they did to that kid? They’re going to get him killed,” he said. “Right now, I am so upset at this whole industry.”
Mazzulli closed by saying that the death of a fighter could follow if steps aren’t taken to reduce such drastic cuts, something that would be completely pointless and ridiculous considering it wasn’t even in a fight:
“You’re going to be sitting there with a girlfriend, with parents, who lost their kid to something so stupid, for no apparent reason,” Mazzulli said. “What’s going to happen is you’re going to have a mother and a father losing their child over weight-cutting to fight – not in a fight.”
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Colby Covington was clearly not a fan of the welterweight bout between Darren Till and Stephen Thompson. Even though Covington has the biggest fight thus far in his pro-MMA career lined up, he was keeping a close eye on this fight as there is a good ch…
Colby Covington was clearly not a fan of the welterweight bout between Darren Till and Stephen Thompson. Even though Covington has the biggest fight thus far in his pro-MMA career lined up, he was keeping a close eye on this fight as there is a good chance that he may have to fight the winner […]
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