{"id":623250,"date":"2026-04-22T09:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T09:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/623250\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T09:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T09:42:11","slug":"darren-till-spells-out-the-difficulties-in-switching-from-mma-to-boxing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/623250\/","title":{"rendered":"Darren Till spells out the difficulties in switching from MMA to boxing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;\">Few MMA fighters have had success as boxers beyond fighting in entry-level matchups or against opponents from similar backgrounds. Nate Diaz, a fearsome MMA striker, lost to Jake Paul in his boxing debut. UFC great Anderson Silva edged faded former middleweight titleholder Julio Cesar Chavez Jnr \u2013 but later fell to the YouTuber Paul himself. Conor McGregor, near the peak of his considerable MMA powers, was dismantled by a 40-year-old Floyd Mayweather Jnr inside the ring. Former UFC heavyweight champ Francis Ngannou, before being folded by Anthony Joshua in two rounds, enjoyed moments in his boxing debut against then-heavyweight champion Tyson Fury \u2013 whom he knocked down with a left hook \u2013 but Fury went on to sneak by with a contentious split decision. Ngannou, however, hasn\u2019t competed in boxing since his limitations were exposed by Joshua in fight two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Few MMA fighters have had success as boxers beyond fighting in entry-level matchups or against opponents from similar&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,301936,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-623250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-darren-till-spells-out-the-difficulties-in-switching-from-mma-to-boxing","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623250","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=623250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}