{"id":393708,"date":"2021-09-03T06:31:17","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T13:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=393708"},"modified":"2021-09-03T06:31:17","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T13:31:17","slug":"darren-till-explains-why-you-need-to-have-thick-skin-in-the-sport-when-it-comes-to-trash-talking-in-mma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/darren-till-explains-why-you-need-to-have-thick-skin-in-the-sport-when-it-comes-to-trash-talking-in-mma\/","title":{"rendered":"Darren Till explains why &#8220;you need to have thick skin in the sport&#8221; when it comes to trash-talking in MMA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC middleweight Darren Till explained why &#8220;you need to have thick skin in the sport&#8221; when it comes to trash-talking in MMA.<\/p>\n<p>Till is one of the better trash-talkers in the game, but he himself has also been the victim of trash-talking from his past and future opponents. Speaking to the media ahead of his UFC Vegas 36 main event against Derek Brunson, Till explained why he believes fighters should know what they are getting themselves into when it comes to trash talk in this sport. As far as Till goes, there is absolutely nothing off-limits when it comes to that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re two men, we\u2019re about to go in there and rip the heads off each other, so if you\u2019re going to start getting offended with things that people say to your mum and that, maybe this isn\u2019t the sport for you. Find something else to do because you need to have thick skin in this sport,&#8221; Till said (h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lowkickmma.com\/ufc-vegas-36-darren-till-trash-talk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LowKickMMA<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomeone asked me the other day, \u2018Do you think it was bad what Jake Paul\u2019s team did to Mama Woodley and that?\u2019 And I was like, \u2018Yeah, to Mama Woodley, yeah,\u2019 but in my opinion in this fight game nothing\u2019s off-limits.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/derek-brunson\/derek-brunson-says-darren-till-has-earned-his-hype-when-compared-to-fighters-like-sean-omalley\/\">As for the Till vs. Brunson fight,<\/a> it&#8217;s a very interesting matchup between two of the best middleweights in the world. For Till, he is coming off of a close decision loss to former champ Robert Whittaker, while Brunson has won his last four fights in a row including several upsets during that stretch. It will be intriguing to see how this fight plays out on Saturday night. Regardless, the trash-talking between the two in the lead-up to the fight has been entertaining, which is just the way that Till likes it.<\/p>\n<p>Do you agree with Darren Till that no trash talk is off-limits in MMA?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC middleweight Darren Till explained why &#8220;you need to have thick skin in the sport&#8221; when it comes to trash-talking in MMA. Till is one of the better trash-talkers in the game, but he himself has also been the victim of trash-talking from his past and future opponents. Speaking to the media ahead of his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54477,"featured_media":302640,"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 explains why &quot;you need to have thick skin in the sport&quot; when it comes to trash-talking in MMA | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"UFC middleweight Darren Till explained why &quot;you need to have thick skin in the sport&quot; when it comes to trash-talking in MMA.\" \/>\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-why-you-need-to-have-thick-skin-in-the-sport-when-it-comes-to-trash-talking-in-mma\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Darren Till explains why &quot;you need to have thick skin in the sport&quot; 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