Derek Brunson has rebuffed the statement that Darren Till had suffered an ACL injury in the build-up to the pair's fight in Las Vegas last month.
The Liverpool fighter was defeated by Brunson in the third round of the UFC bout via submission, with the Gorilla suffering a fourth defeat of his career - all of which came in his last five bouts.
Since the defeat, Till's head coach Colin Heron has stated that he was not a hundred percent for the fight due a ligament tear sustained nine weeks before the bout.
However, Brunson has explained why he believes that was merely an excuse from Till's camp in the aftermath of the loss.
"Listen, I don't care about none of that. Till is the pull-out king. If he was that injured, he would have pulled out," he said on the MMA Hour.
"Till was doing hang cleans and squats and deadlifts like two weeks ago. He didn't tear his ACL. And he never said that; that's what his coach said.
"I saw him at the UFC Institute, man. He was doing box jumps, hang cleans, squats, all of that."
Brunson's dubbing of Till as the 'pull-out king' comes after numerous injury problems have plagued his UFC career, leading to a number of cancelled bouts.
A broken collarbone forced him out of a scheduled bout against Marvin Vettori to be cancelled earlier this year.
Before that, Till suffered a torn MCL after his fight with Robert Whittaker last summer and broke his foot before a supposed match-up against Jack Hermansson in December.
