{"id":344562,"date":"2020-03-16T12:21:50","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T19:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=344562"},"modified":"2020-03-16T12:21:50","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T19:21:50","slug":"darren-till-says-he-and-israel-adesanya-speak-every-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/darren-till-says-he-and-israel-adesanya-speak-every-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Darren Till says he and Israel Adesanya &#8216;speak every day&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Darren Till says he and UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya &#8220;speak every day&#8221; \u2014 despite the fact they could end up colliding in the Octagon in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2020\/3\/16\/21172969\/darren-till-clarifies-fear-of-yoel-romero-responds-to-israel-adesanya-calling-him-a-p-ssy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"MMAFighting.com (opens in a new tab)\">MMAFighting.com&#8217;s<\/a> <em>Eurobash<\/em> podcast recently, Till was asked if he had heard Adesanya call him a &#8220;p**sy&#8221; for <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/darren-till-claims-hes-afraid-of-no-one-except-for-scary-yoel-romero\/\">jesting that he is afraid to fight Yoel Romero<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid he, yeah?\u201d Till replied when asked if he&#8217;d heard the champ&#8217;s comment. \u201cWho the f*ck is he talking to like that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Till then had a bit of a laugh at the whole exchange, divulging that he and Adesanya actually speak often on social media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s all good,\u201d he said. \u201cOf course\u2026of course, he\u2019s keeping me close. We speak every day, me and him, we message every day. It\u2019s all good.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, Israel knows that I\u2019m not scared of Yoel. He\u2019s just doing that. He knows what he\u2019s doing, and so do I. Look at the way I\u2019ve marketed this whole thing now with Yoel and everything. (I\u2019m a) f*ckin\u2019 genius, you know what I mean.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While it&#8217;s not exactly a known fact that Till and Adesanya seem to have a bit of a friendship, it&#8217;s also not a secret. Till has<a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/video-darren-till-shares-hilarious-private-dm-from-israel-adesanya\/\"> previously shared snippets<\/a> of their conversations, and they seem very lighthearted.<\/p>\n<p>See one such instance below:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/darrentill2\/status\/1227115198248562688<\/p>\n<p>Darren Till is expected to return to the Octagon against former UFC middleweight champion Robert Whittaker in the main event of UFC Dublin this summer \u2014 provided the COVID-19 outbreak doesn&#8217;t force more changes to the UFC schedule.<\/p>\n<p>Israel Adesanya, meanwhile, is not yet scheduled for his next fight, having bested Yoel Romero to retain his title a little over a week ago. That being said, the middleweight champ is expected to take on undefeated Brazilian contender Paulo Costa in his next fight.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of the apparent bromance between Israel Adesanya and Darren Till?<\/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 3\/16\/2020. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Darren Till says he and UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya &#8220;speak every day&#8221; \u2014 despite the fact they could end up colliding in the Octagon in the near future. 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