{"id":322243,"date":"2019-08-13T05:37:57","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T12:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=322243"},"modified":"2019-08-13T05:37:57","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T12:37:57","slug":"darren-till-updates-on-potential-move-to-middleweight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/darren-till-updates-on-potential-move-to-middleweight\/","title":{"rendered":"Darren Till updates on potential move to middleweight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former UFC welterweight title challenger Darren Till has always endured a difficult cut the division&#8217;s weight limit. While he has hit that limit many times, it&#8217;s clearly taken a toll on many occasions, and he has failed to do so on several others.<\/p>\n<p>Given the difficultly Till has had hitting the welterweight limit, he&#8217;s long discussed a potential move up to the 185-pound middleweight division, where the cut might be less taxing.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/2019\/07\/darren-till-middleweight-move-i-wouldnt-be-small-at-185\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MMA Junkie<\/a> recently, he once again discussed this topic, announcing that his next fight will &#8220;probably&#8221; be at middleweight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost probably, yeah,\u201d Till said. \u201cLike, I think it\u2019s important to implement a few other, like I say, tweaking, and I\u2019ve been lifting a little bit, just a tiny bit. As I say, I\u2019ve been improving my nutrition and other things by 5 percent. I\u2019m ready to go in four weeks for the fight. No one trains like me, they just don\u2019t. I know they don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Darren Till also discussed this subject in a fantastic interview with Jim Edwards, sizing up a few middleweight opponents, and identifying Yoel Romero as the one who makes him a bit nervous.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do have to think about them things,&#8221; he said (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmanews.com\/darren-till-says-his-next-fight-will-probably-be-at-middleweight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MMA News<\/a>). &#8220;I wouldn\u2019t be small at 185. I\u2019d be right in the mix in there with them guys. The great guy, the interim champ Israel (Adesanya) is a great fighter. The champ (Robert Whittaker) is a good fighter. There\u2019s a few beasts. The one guy who is a scary guy is Yoel (Romero).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Darren Till has lost his last two fights, first tapping out to former UFC welterweight champ Tyron Woodley in a bid for gold, then suffering a knockout at the hands of Jorge Masvidal. Do you think he&#8217;d be wise to move to middleweight?<\/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 8\/13\/2019. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former UFC welterweight title challenger Darren Till has always endured a difficult cut the division&#8217;s weight limit. While he has hit that limit many times, it&#8217;s clearly taken a toll on many occasions, and he has failed to do so on several others. Given the difficultly Till has had hitting the welterweight limit, he&#8217;s long [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":305839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[37606,39610],"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>Darren Till updates on potential move to middleweight | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former UFC welterweight title challenger Darren Till updates on the long-discussed possiblity of a move up to the middleweight division.\" \/>\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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