{"id":108604,"date":"2025-08-31T11:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T11:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/108604\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T11:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T11:50:07","slug":"carl-froch-responds-to-darren-tills-callout-after-near-clash-at-misfits-22-i-was-quite-pleasantly-surprised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/108604\/","title":{"rendered":"Carl Froch responds to Darren Till’s callout after near-clash at Misfits 22… ‘I was quite pleasantly surprised’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Darren Till and Carl Froch nearly clashed on Saturday following the Misfits 22 main event, potentially setting up for a shock return.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, Misfits 22 took place from the AO Arena in Manchester, and was headlined by a main event between former UFC<\/a> middleweights Darren Till<\/a> and Luke Rockhold<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ahead of the event, the two fighters almost clashed at the official weigh-ins as several security guards attempted to hold Till back as he attempted to attack Rockhold<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And heading into their fight, \u2018The Gorilla\u2019 kept the same energy and eventually scored a terrifying KO over Rockhold in the third round<\/a>, rendering him completely unconscious.<\/p>\n

\"LukePhoto by Ben Roberts Photo\/Getty ImagesFormer boxing world champion responds to Till\u2019s post-fight callout<\/p>\n

Immediately after his extremely impressive win, the former UFC middleweight title challenger called out several influencer boxers but also called out former boxing world champion Carl Froch<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Till stormed out of the ring and attempted to come face-to-face with Froch<\/a>, who sat on the front row and watched the night of action.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, security once again stepped in and stopped Till from getting close to Froch, who didn\u2019t provide any sort of reaction to Till\u2019s actions.<\/p>\n

Despite that, just a few hours removed from the event, the Hall of Fame boxer has now provided his full reaction to Till\u2019s callout.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was quite pleasantly surprised by the atmosphere, by the whole production,\u201d Froch admitted on his YouTube channel<\/a> despite having previously being extremely critical of influencer boxing.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was pleasantly surprised by the quality of boxing\u2026 Darren Till ironed his opponent out, it was quite a bad knockout as well, the fight could\u2019ve been stopped earlier and then Darren Till literally went off on one.<\/p>\n

\u201cI knew it was coming, I knew something would\u2019ve been coming\u2026 Can this fight with Darren Till happen, can it make any sense?<\/p>\n

\u201cDo I want it to happen? Realistically, probably not, I retired 11 years ago and when I retired, I was offered a lot of money to fight Chavez Jr, I was offered a lot of money to fight Gennady Golovkin, the desire was gone and when the desire is gone you\u2019re not gonna jump in the boxing ring.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy would I fight now, why would I bother? Well, easy money. I was thinking to myself, they\u2019re giving money away here with these fights because Darren Till is absolutely f\u2014\u2014 useless, it\u2019d be a mismatch, but is there money and cash in it?\u201d Froch continued.<\/p>\n

Froch admits he\u2019ll return to training to decide whether he wants boxing comeback<\/p>\n

Although the 48-year-old has always been extremely critical of the influencer boxing world, following Till\u2019s callout, Froch has claimed he is now keen on returning to training.<\/p>\n

The former world champion didn\u2019t write off a return and stated that he will participate in a few sparring sessions to see whether he still has the desire to fight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Darren Till and Carl Froch nearly clashed on Saturday following the Misfits 22 main event, potentially setting up…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,77124,11079,13210,5751,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-108604","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-boxing","11":"tag-carl-froch","12":"tag-darren-till","13":"tag-misfits","14":"tag-misfits-boxing-22","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108604","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=108604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}