Is Darren Till a legit contender at 185 pounds?
It wasn’t that long ago questions abounded as to whether the current biggest star of British MMA was on his downside while still in his mid-20s.
Till was finished by Tyron Woodley in the second round of their UFC 228 title fight, knocked out by Jorge Masvidal in front of his own countrymen in London, and was arrested after an incident in the Canary Islands.
A year later, Till sure looks like a man who’s gotten his head back together. He’s stayed out of trouble. He’s gone up to middleweight, where he no longer has to make brutal cuts down to 170 pounds. And he looked strong in earning a split decision over Kelvin Gastelum at UFC 244 in his middleweight debut.
Then you see Gastelum go out and lose fast to Jack Hermansson last weekend and wonder how impressive that win truly was. A victory over former champion Whittaker would silence a lot of doubters fast.
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