Tyson Fury made headlines when he announced that he’d like to make the transition to MMA, and Darren Till believes he’s pretty serious about it.
The heavyweight boxing world champion has recently dabbled in just about every part of the combat sports world, with his recent appearance at a WWE event, as well as his trip to Liverpool, to train with UFC middleweight contender, Till at Team Kaobon.
And Till, who was impressed by Fury during the training session, thinks there’s a pretty big chance we’ll actually see Fury compete in MMA someday.
“I think it’s about a 70-30,” Till said in an interview with BT Sport. “Seventy yeah, thirty no, we’ve got to remember boxing to MMA is very different as well with a lot of things, especially pay. He’s in WWE, he’s making a lot of money there, he’s making a lot of money – he’s a top, top three heavyweight. I’d love to see it, I’d love to see it for the entertainment factor. It’s all about the entertainment and he’d probably do well, whoever he gets.”
Till ran Fury through an intense training session which included hitting pads, wrestling techniques and more, and Till says he was surprised at how committed Fury was to the whole thing.
“I had a terrific chat with him after we trained but I thought to myself, he’s going to come down, he’s going to lay in a few techniques and that’s it,” Till said. “He said to me when we were starting, I’ve come to train you know. I was like what do you mean, he was like I’ve come to train hard, and I was like ok, let’s crack on and I had just fought, even my knee was a bit niggling.”
“Collin was like give a proper training session, make sure he knows so I said Tyson, I’m going to teach you about what I think you need for MMA. If you’re considering this, I’ll teach you what I think you need so we started off, we ran around, we done warmups that coach Mike, the wrestler always teaches us and then I got him involved in some sprawls, some shadow boxing and then we went straight into sparring, pads.”
Fury had initially thrown a few names such as UFC heavyweight champion Stipe Miocic, Francis Ngannou and Curtis Blaydes as potential opponents, and all three automatically agreed to fight the boxing superstar. But with Fury’s rematch with Deontay Wilder imminent, we may have to wait for Fury’s octagon debut.
