{"id":331056,"date":"2019-11-06T06:01:13","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T14:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=331056"},"modified":"2019-11-06T06:01:13","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T14:01:13","slug":"darren-till-explains-how-donald-trump-saved-then-nearly-ruined-his-ufc-244-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/darren-till-explains-how-donald-trump-saved-then-nearly-ruined-his-ufc-244-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Darren Till explains how Donald Trump saved then nearly ruined his UFC 244 fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC middleweight contender Darren Till has revealed how President Donald Trump had a big influence on his fight this past weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Till was able to <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/darren-till-details-craziest-week-of-his-life-following-ufc-244-win\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">defeat Kelvin Gastelum in the co-main event of UFC 244<\/a> on Saturday night, solidifying his position as one of the top dogs in the 185-pound division. It marked his first win since defeating Stephen &#8220;Wonderboy&#8221; Thompson at UFC Liverpool last year, which gives you a pretty good idea of just how important this triumph was for &#8220;The Gorilla&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>As many fans will know President Trump was indeed in attendance at Madison Square Garden at the weekend, but what they may not know is how involved he was with Till&#8217;s ongoing visa issues during fight week.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jorge Masvidal, Kevin Lee, Israel Adesanya | Ariel Helwani\u2019s MMA Show (November 4, 2019) | ESPN MMA\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q18_-bddYrU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>During his appearance on Ariel Helwani&#8217;s MMA Show on Monday, Till had the following to say on the matter.<\/p>\n<p id=\"777dTa\">\u201cI spoke to Dana and I\u2019m getting it sorted right now,\u201d Till said (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-244-results-stream-fight-card-start-time-date-predictions-odds-highlights-masvidal-diaz-mma\/2019\/11\/5\/20950243\/ufc-244-darren-till-president-trump-saved-nearly-ruined-kelvin-gastelum-fight-mma\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MMA Mania<\/a>)<em>. \u201c<\/em>He spoke with me and the team and they are doing everything they can to sort this problem out and ironing it out I appreciate that from them because they didn\u2019t have to go to the lengths they did,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yF4eC3\">\u201cI think Trump got involved. I\u2019m not so sure, but I think he got a call. I\u2019m not so sure. It\u2019s just madness, Trump speaking my name! I don\u2019t even know what to say.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On the flip side, though, the arrival of Trump caused Till some issues as he prepared to undergo his medical.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t have my medical yet, but they were shutting down the USADA office for the president and then they tried to kick me out of the room,\u201d Till said. \u201cThey were saying that I couldn\u2019t fight. I refused to leave the room. Kevin Lee had just left, and so did Derrick Lewis, and then I was just sat there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201dI made sure the doctor came to my room to get my medical because that was just another thing,\u201d he said. \u201cIf anything could have went wrong, it did. I was so focused on what was coming in the fight, I wasn\u2019t paying attention. And then they started talking about maybe me not fighting. I didn\u2019t even cause a fuss. I just thought, \u2018Is this fight not meant to happen?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of this story from Darren Till?<\/p>\n<p><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 11\/6\/2019.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC middleweight contender Darren Till has revealed how President Donald Trump had a big influence on his fight this past weekend. Till was able to defeat Kelvin Gastelum in the co-main event of UFC 244 on Saturday night, solidifying his position as one of the top dogs in the 185-pound division. It marked his first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54478,"featured_media":305192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[37606,14745,39610],"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 explains how Donald Trump saved then nearly ruined his UFC 244 fight | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Darren Till has explained how President Donald Trump helped, and then almost hindered, his scheduled UFC 244 co-main event.\" \/>\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\/darren-till-explains-how-donald-trump-saved-then-nearly-ruined-his-ufc-244-fight\/\" 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