{"id":330272,"date":"2019-10-31T06:44:19","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T13:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=330272"},"modified":"2019-10-31T06:44:19","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T13:44:19","slug":"kelvin-gastelum-not-concerned-as-darren-till-heads-to-nyc-for-ufc-244","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/kelvin-gastelum-not-concerned-as-darren-till-heads-to-nyc-for-ufc-244\/","title":{"rendered":"Kelvin Gastelum &#8216;not concerned&#8217; as Darren Till heads to NYC for UFC 244"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC middleweight contender Kelvin Gastelum has said that he isn&#8217;t really concerned about Darren Till&#8217;s visa issues, as &#8220;The Gorilla&#8221; confirms that he is en route to New York City for UFC 244.<\/p>\n<p>The two men are set to square off in the <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/darren-till-set-for-middleweight-debut-opposite-kelvin-gastelum\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">co-main event of Saturday night&#8217;s card at Madison Square Garden<\/a> in what will serve as Till&#8217;s middleweight debut in the UFC. However, the fight was in jeopardy earlier this week as the Englishman was unable to make it to the United States on time for his full fight week commitments.<\/p>\n<p>This was reportedly due to his arrest in Tenerife earlier this year, which caused some visa issues, but despite all of the chaos, Gastelum didn&#8217;t seem too worried at the open workouts.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"UFC 244: Kelvin Gastelum open workout media scrum\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C_1z6Njzu3A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B4RoWWJlDgN\/<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo be honest I\u2019m not really concerned about it,\u201d Gastelum said (via <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/2019\/10\/ufc-244-kelvin-gastelum-not-worried-darren-till-visa-jared-cannonier-backup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MMA Junkie<\/a><em>)<\/em>. \u201cIf something happens, this is the guy we\u2019ve been preparing to fight and I feel like, for me to fight a Jared Cannonier in the backup is just not fair to me. I can\u2019t take a fight like that on two days\u2019 notice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As you can see by the above post, in the last few hours Till has seemingly confirmed that he is on his way to New York City for UFC 244. While there are still some concerns that he will be unable to make weight as a result of this disruption, we&#8217;d imagine that the UFC will just be happy he&#8217;s heading for The Big Apple.<\/p>\n<p>Now, we just have to wait and see whether or not these two can get to fight night. If the fight goes ahead as planned, who are you picking? Darren Till or Kelvin Gastelum?<\/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> on 10\/31\/2019.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC middleweight contender Kelvin Gastelum has said that he isn&#8217;t really concerned about Darren Till&#8217;s visa issues, as &#8220;The Gorilla&#8221; confirms that he is en route to New York City for UFC 244. The two men are set to square off in the co-main event of Saturday night&#8217;s card at Madison Square Garden in what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54478,"featured_media":330155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[37606,10397,39610],"tags":[43928,4245,11],"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>Kelvin Gastelum &#039;not concerned&#039; as Darren Till heads to NYC for UFC 244<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Kelvin Gastelum has revealed that he isn&#039;t concerned about Darren Till&#039;s visa issues as &quot;The Gorilla&quot; begins his journey to New York City.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/kelvin-gastelum-not-concerned-as-darren-till-heads-to-nyc-for-ufc-244\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kelvin Gastelum &#039;not concerned&#039; 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