{"id":333190,"date":"2019-11-25T10:22:16","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T18:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=333190"},"modified":"2019-11-25T10:22:16","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T18:22:16","slug":"darren-till-proclaims-himself-the-money-man-in-the-middleweight-division","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/darren-till-proclaims-himself-the-money-man-in-the-middleweight-division\/","title":{"rendered":"Darren Till proclaims himself the &#8216;money man&#8217; in the middleweight division"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After picking up a decision win over Kelvin Gastelum at UFC 244, former UFC welterweight title challenger Darren Till is now a top-5 middleweight contender.<\/p>\n<p>To say he&#8217;s feeling confident in the wake of this division change would be an understatement.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent interview with BT Sport, Till shared his belief that he&#8217;s moved past the losses that ended his time in the welterweight division, and evolved into the &#8216;money man&#8217; at middleweight.<\/p>\n<p>He believes he&#8217;s an even more sought-after opponent than UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya \u2014 even if it&#8217;s just because he&#8217;s viewed as an easy matchup.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;I&#039;m the money-man at middleweight!&quot; Darren Till interview on his next move, and training Tyson Fury\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jmnlk9klF2w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe people forget the fighter I was before I got knocked out,\u201d Till said (via<a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/2019\/11\/ufc-darren-till-money-man-middleweight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> MMA Junkie<\/a>). \u201cForget the [Tyron] Woodley fight. People forget the fighter I was, what I done to the best striker in the UFC, Stephen Thompson, where I calm and calculatedly beat him, nearly knocked him out. Look at the performance he\u2019s just had, or before that (Donald Cerrone), or before that all the European stars I was just taking out, or before that when I was in Brazil just taking names, or even before that. So now they\u2019re all just calling me out. I\u2019m the money man in the division.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cForget the champion: it\u2019s me,\u201d Till continued. \u201cThey all know what they want. Maybe they\u2019re all seeing it as easy money \u2013 not a chance. Not a chance, mate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Darren Till has recently been linked to matchups with former UFC middleweight champ Robert Whittaker, and top contenders Jared Cannonier and Yoel Romero. Now viewing himself as the middleweight money man, he says he&#8217;ll decide which matchup he likes best.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll pick,\u201d Till said. \u201cI\u2019ll just see who I want to fight because they\u2019re all calling me out for a reason, so obviously I\u2019m holding all the chips.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Suffice it to say that moving to middleweight has done wonders for Till&#8217;s confidence. Who do you want to see him fight next?<\/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 11\/25\/2019.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After picking up a decision win over Kelvin Gastelum at UFC 244, former UFC welterweight title challenger Darren Till is now a top-5 middleweight contender. To say he&#8217;s feeling confident in the wake of this division change would be an understatement. In a recent interview with BT Sport, Till shared his belief that he&#8217;s moved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":285308,"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 proclaims himself the &#039;money man&#039; in the middleweight division | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former UFC welterweight title challenger Darren Till has rediscovered his confidence following a successful debut in 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\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/darren-till-proclaims-himself-the-money-man-in-the-middleweight-division\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Darren Till proclaims himself the &#039;money man&#039; 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