{"id":268041,"date":"2018-01-17T12:47:47","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T20:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=268041"},"modified":"2018-01-17T12:47:47","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T20:47:47","slug":"darren-till-promises-kamaru-usman-cant-emil-meek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/darren-till\/darren-till-promises-kamaru-usman-cant-emil-meek\/","title":{"rendered":"Darren Till Promises Kamaru Usman Can&#8217;t Do to Him What He Did to Emil Meek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s 2018 and Darren Till still hasn&#8217;t been booked. You can chalk it up to scared opponents, intelligent strategy, or just the UFC&#8217;s booking department. Either way, he&#8217;s been wanting a fight ever since his dominant performance against veteran Donald &#8216;Cowboy&#8217; Cerrone. Pretty much every welterweight in the entire division has been in talks for a fight with the Scouser, but none have materialized. Till&#8217;s eyebrows\u00a0 raised up for Kamaru Usman&#8217;s fight last weekend, thinking Usman was going to call him out, but alas it didn&#8217;t happen. He once again voiced his frustrations in a recent interview.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI thought if [Kamaru Usman] won, he would definitely say my name.\u00a0I didn\u2019t even watch the fight, but all I\u2019ve heard is that he has terrible striking and all he did was force his opponent up against the fence.\u00a0He might be able to do that to Emil Meek, but he wouldn\u2019t be able to do it to me. I\u2019m twice the size of him for f-ck\u2019s sake. I\u2019m twice as strong as him.\u00a0Usman has been talking so much sh-t and his performance didn\u2019t prove anything to anyone. He\u2019s saying that he was at 30 percent, but once you\u2019re in that cage your excuses go out the window.\u00a0It doesn\u2019t matter if you\u2019re feeling ill or if you\u2019ve got a broken bone, you\u2019ve gone in there because you\u2019ve decided that you\u2019re in good enough condition to fight. I don\u2019t believe in any of that bullsh-t.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I will say one thing before the year is out&#8230; next year every one in that division better fear me<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Darren Till (@darrentill2) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/darrentill2\/status\/947568456119054337?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 31, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Honestly, I have not heard a whisper about the London card. Not a thing. That\u2019s the god\u2019s honest truth. It doesn\u2019t worry me. I\u2019m the biggest star in the welterweight division after the champion. I\u2019m just sitting back, training and staying focused. I\u2019m happy with everything as it stands. I\u2019m only 25. I\u2019m still young. I don\u2019t mind sitting back and letting people get excited about my return. As I said, I haven\u2019t heard anything about London. If I\u2019m not on it, I\u2019m not on it. If I\u2019m on something else, I\u2019m on something else. It\u2019s down to the UFC. They\u2019re my bosses. I\u2019m contracted to Dana White and he\u2019s the big boss. I\u2019m ready to fight whoever they think I should fight.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2018\/1\/17\/16894128\/darren-till-would-miss-ufc-london-for-wonderboy-fight-rips-kamaru-usmans-excuses\">Darren Till speaking to MMA Fighting<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>London or not, Darren Till wants a fight. Any fight at this point. His fans seem to agree, who may not be as patient as Till according to his regular social media updates. All signs point that Till could a future contender in the division but he can never go on to prove it if he isn&#8217;t booked in a fight. We&#8217;ve gotten a storm of announcements since entering the new year, so the signs point that maybe we might not have to wait too much long to see Till in action.<\/p>\n<p><em>This article first appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\">BJPenn.com<\/a> on 1\/17\/2018.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s 2018 and Darren Till still hasn&#8217;t been booked. You can chalk it up to scared opponents, intelligent strategy, or just the UFC&#8217;s booking department. Either way, he&#8217;s been wanting a fight ever since his dominant performance against veteran Donald &#8216;Cowboy&#8217; Cerrone. 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