{"id":277094,"date":"2018-05-25T07:27:16","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T14:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=277094"},"modified":"2018-05-25T08:21:35","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T15:21:35","slug":"video-tension-runs-high-at-the-ufc-liverpool-media-day-staredowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/videos\/video-tension-runs-high-at-the-ufc-liverpool-media-day-staredowns\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO | Tension runs high at the UFC Liverpool media day staredowns"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sunday night. <\/p>\n<p>IT GOES DOWN. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UFCLiverpool?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UFCLiverpool<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5TDgptepbD\">pic.twitter.com\/5TDgptepbD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; UFC (@ufc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ufc\/status\/1000028213790167041?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 25, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the stars of Sunday&#8217;s UFC Liverpool card faced off for the media. As always, these media day face-offs were a blend of bravado-fuelled intensity and cool sportsmanship.<\/p>\n<p>UFC Liverpool&#8217;s main event fighters, hometown hero Darren Till and number-one ranked welterweight Stephen &#8220;Wonderboy&#8221; Thompson, kept things cordial during their staredown, exchanging multiple handshakes. So too did co-main event fighter <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/neil-magny\/ufc-welterweight-neil-magny-to-donate-15k-of-purse-to-little-girls-medical-care\/\">Neil Magny<\/a> and his last-minute replacement opponent Craig White, who stepped in for the injured Gunnar Nelson.<\/p>\n<p>While the main and co-main event fighters kept things pretty chill, main card featherweight fighters Makwan Amirkhani and Jason Knight did not, engaging in perhaps the most intense staredown of the day, complete with some trash talk and even a menacing throat-slicing gesture. Molly McCann&#8217;s staredown with Gillian Robertson was also quite tense.<\/p>\n<p>See the staredowns from the UFC Liverpool media day in the video at the top of this post. See the entire lineup for the card below.<\/p>\n<p id=\"9TDWnS\"><strong>UFC Liverpool Main Card | 1:00 pm ET on FOX Sports 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>170 lbs.: Stephen Thompson vs. Darren Till<br \/>\n170 lbs.: Neil Magny vs. Craig White<br \/>\n145 lbs.: Arnold Allen vs. Mads Burnell<br \/>\n170 lbs.: Makwan Amirkhani vs. Jason Knight<br \/>\n<del>135 lbs.: Manny Bermudez vs. Davey Grant<\/del> (bout was cancelled)<br \/>\n185 lbs.: Eric Spicely vs. Darren Stewart<\/p>\n<p id=\"zsyWlg\"><strong>UFC Liverpool Prelims | 11:00 am ET on FOX Sports 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p id=\"0QGCqI\">170 lbs.: Claudio Henrique da Silva vs. Nordine Taleb<br \/>\n185 lbs.: Tom Breese vs. Daniel Kelly<br \/>\n170 lbs.: Brad Scott vs. Carlo Pedersoli Jr.<br \/>\n125 lbs.: Molly McCann vs. Gillian Robertson<\/p>\n<p id=\"anAo6w\"><strong>UFC Liverpool Early Prelims | 10:00 am on UFC Fight Pass<\/strong><\/p>\n<p id=\"7kZYFl\">185 lbs.: Trevor Smith vs. Elias Theodorou<br \/>\n135 lbs.: Lina Lansberg vs. Gina Mazany<\/p>\n<p>Which fights on the UFC Liverpool bill are you most excited for?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPenn.com<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 5\/25\/2018. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday night. 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UFC Liverpool&#8217;s main event fighters, hometown hero Darren Till and number-one ranked welterweight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":277096,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[39485,2682],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>VIDEO | Tension runs high at the UFC Liverpool media day staredowns | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Though Stephen Thompson and Darren Till were quite respectful, other fighters on the UFC Liverpool bill got pretty intense.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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