{"id":100645,"date":"2025-08-27T22:07:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T22:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/100645\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T22:07:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T22:07:05","slug":"diaz-not-rockhold-was-tills-original-misfits-foe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/100645\/","title":{"rendered":"Diaz, Not Rockhold, Was Till\u2019s Original Misfits Foe"},"content":{"rendered":"

Darren Till will return to the boxing ring this weekend (Sat., Aug. 30, 2025) to face former Ultimate Fighting Championship Welterweight champion, Luke Rockhold, in the main event of the \u201cRing of Thrones<\/a>\u201d pay-per-view (PPV) event on DAZN<\/a> inside AO Arena in Manchester, England.<\/p>\n

According to \u201cThe Gorilla,\u201d however, that was not the original fight that was lined up.<\/p>\n

During a recent chat with MMA Fighting<\/a>, Till revealed that he was actually set to face off against another one of his former UFC stablemates in Nate Diaz. As he tells it, it was Diaz who called for the showdown, and all signs pointed to it going down before the Stockton slugger flaked.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, Misfits owed me a big fight, a pay-per-view fight, so obviously they have to come through with a big name, which obviously Nate Diaz [talked about a fight] and whatever,\u201d Till said, \u201cThen they come with Luke and I was happy with it.<\/p>\n

\u201cLuke, former Strikeforce world champion, former UFC world champion, you don\u2019t get to them levels in this game without being a formidable opponent. So it\u2019s like, I was very pleased. I was very happy with the matchup. I was extremely happy, I\u2019m not going to lie,\u201d he added, before explaining how a potential showdown against Diaz came about.<\/p>\n

\u201cNate Diaz was the one that called the fight, he named the time, place, date, weight, everything,\u201d Till said. \u201cI just said, \u2018yes\u2019 because obviously he\u2019s the bigger side. He\u2019s the \u2018A\u2019 side, stuff like that. But, then he pulled out so I\u2019m willing to fight any man.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is probably my downfall,\u201d Till concluded. \u201cI don\u2019t see fighting as pick and choose. I should have done that more in my UFC career, but I\u2019m just willing to fight. Whoever they put in front of me, obviously if it\u2019s a big name, because they owed me a big named fight, I\u2019m ready and willing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking of Masvidal, Till revealed that a rematch against \u201cGamebred\u201d \u2014 who knocked him out inside the Octagon more than six years ago, reigniting his career (see it here<\/a>) \u2014 was also an idea he tossed around to matchmakers, though it never gained much traction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Darren Till will return to the boxing ring this weekend (Sat., Aug. 30, 2025) to face former Ultimate…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,43957,786,40762,785,85],"class_list":["post-100645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing-news-results","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}