{"id":360699,"date":"2020-09-07T16:20:32","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T23:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=360699"},"modified":"2020-09-07T16:20:32","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T23:20:32","slug":"darren-till-states-his-case-to-be-nick-diazs-return-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/darren-till-states-his-case-to-be-nick-diazs-return-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Darren Till states his case to be Nick Diaz\u2019s return fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Darren Till is looking to welcome Nick Diaz back to the Octagon.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, Diaz&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/nick-diaz\/nick-diaz-targeting-return-to-ufc-in-2021-successfully-complete-test-weight-cut\/\">manager said his client is &#8216;100 percent&#8217; going to fight again<\/a> and even did a test cut to see how it would go. Immediately, it caught the fan&#8217;s attention and people started to matchmake fights like Nick Diaz vs. Jorge Masvidal or Robbie Lawler.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, Till hopes Diaz will return to 185-pounds and he can be the one to fight him.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/darrentill2\/status\/1303037042276868098<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If @nickdiaz209 wants to come back &amp; scrap, who&#8217;s the biggest star, fight &amp; best fight for him out the middleweight? F*****g me that&#8217;s who,&#8221; Till wrote on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Till vs. Diaz would be a very entertaining striking fight between two men who like to throw down. Yet, if what Diaz&#8217;s manager is saying is correct, he will likely be returning to welterweight so the bout against the Englishman would be out the window.<\/p>\n<p>However, Till has talked <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/darren-till\/darren-till-not-done-with-welterweight-following-robert-whittaker-fight\/\">about dropping back down to welterweight<\/a>. So, perhaps the Diaz fight is a big enough one for him to make the drop in weight.<\/p>\n<p>Darren Till is coming off a decision loss to Robert Whittaker on Fight Island back in July. It was his first loss since moving up to middleweight. In his 185-pound debut, he edged out a split decision win over Kelvin Gastelum at UFC 244. That win snapped his two-fight losing streak where he was knocked out by Jorge Masvidal and submitted by Tyron Woodley.<\/p>\n<p>The Englishman <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/amanda-nunes\/ufc-announces-two-huge-matchups-including-the-return-of-amanda-nunes-and-darren-till\/\">is also set to return to the Octagon in December against Jack Hermansson<\/a> pending Till is cleared by a doctor for his knee injury.<\/p>\n<p>Nick Diaz, meanwhile, has not fought since 2015. There, he lost to Anderson Silva but it was overturned to a no-contest. Before that, he suffered a decision loss to Georges St-Pierre for the belt and a decision loss to Carlos Condit for the interim welterweight title.<\/p>\n<p>Although he has not competed in nearly six years, he still is a massive name and whoever welcomes back to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ufc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UFC<\/a> is in for a big fight.<\/p>\n<p>Would you want to see Darren Till vs. Nick Diaz?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Darren Till is looking to welcome Nick Diaz back to the Octagon. On Sunday, Diaz&#8217;s manager said his client is &#8216;100 percent&#8217; going to fight again and even did a test cut to see how it would go. Immediately, it caught the fan&#8217;s attention and people started to matchmake fights like Nick Diaz vs. Jorge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54463,"featured_media":302640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[37606,10085,39610],"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 states his case to be Nick Diaz\u2019s return fight | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Darren Till is looking to welcome Nick Diaz back to the Octagon after it was announced the elder Diaz brother was making a comeback.\" \/>\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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