{"id":105734,"date":"2025-08-29T16:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T16:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/105734\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T16:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T16:00:07","slug":"darren-till-makes-surprise-admission-about-his-ufc-future-ahead-of-biggest-misfits-boxing-fight-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/105734\/","title":{"rendered":"Darren Till makes surprise admission about his UFC future ahead of biggest Misfits Boxing fight yet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Darren Till has admitted that he still gets the itch to go back to the UFC despite heading into his biggest boxing fight yet.<\/p>\n<p>The former middleweight contender last competed in the octagon at the end of 2022, giving eventual champion <a href=\"http:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/tag\/dricus-du-plessis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dricus Du Plessis<\/a> arguably his hardest UFC fight to that point. Now, he is <a href=\"http:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/tag\/misfits-boxing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Misfits Boxing\u2019s<\/a> biggest star and set to headline on pay-per-view against <a href=\"http:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/tag\/luke-rockhold\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Luke Rockhold<\/a> on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>While he currently is focusing on the boxing ring, he is still considered a serious threat in the octagon after leaving the UFC on his own terms.<\/p>\n<p>Darren Till still eyeing UFC return after Misfits Boxing run<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with Bloody Elbow ahead of his headline fight this weekend, <a href=\"http:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/tag\/darren-till\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Darren Till<\/a> admitted that he still finds himself wanting to return to the octagon at times. However, he would need to return to MMA training and undo some habits he has learned for his <a href=\"http:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/tag\/boxing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">boxing<\/a> career.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know,\u201d Till replied when asked if his career in the cage was officially finished. \u201cI still have the itch for it sometimes. So whenever I\u2019m done with Misfits we\u2019ll see\u2026 I do think I\u2019ve still got it in me there\u2019s just a few things I\u2019d need to focus up on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo obviously I\u2019ll need to take some time, focus up on those things and then who knows? I think the story is not over.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Darren Till and Luke Rockhold have had heated feud<\/p>\n<p>The rivalry between Till and Rockhold has been growing in intensity to a boiling point ahead of today\u2019s ceremonial weigh-ins. The Brit has even formed an unlikely alliance with <a href=\"http:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/tag\/dillon-danis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dillon Danis<\/a>, who allegedly hurt the former middleweight champion in a scuffle at weigh-ins.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday\u2019s press conference took a long time to even get started as the main event duo couldn\u2019t stop going after each other violently. Several members of security were doing their best to stop Till and Rockhold from attacking each other.<\/p>\n<p>The former UFC middleweight champion was trying to jump over tables to get to his next opponent. Till then tried to go around them but had to settle for barking insults at Rockhold from a safe distance and cameras cut away from the ugly incident for a few moments to allow things to calm down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Darren Till has admitted that he still gets the itch to go back to the UFC despite heading&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,3136,3137,21867,10988,82,640],"class_list":["post-105734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-darren-till","tag-luke-rockhold","tag-middleweight","tag-misfits-boxing","tag-sports","tag-ufc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}