Midnight Mania! Ex-UFC star Darren Till reportedly targeting boxing debut against badass Russian influencer

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Darren Until is beginning a brand new chapter in his fight sports activities profession.

The previous Welterweight title challenger’s UFC profession had not gone according to plan for the previous couple of years. His relocation to Middleweight began effectively with an upset win over Kelvin Gastelum, and even a decent resolution loss to Robert Whittaker was a promising final result. Then-champion Israel Adesanya was mentioning his name often, and it felt like Until was a real menace at 185 lbs.

Then, Derek Brunson choked him out with little ceremony, and Dricus du Plessis did the same simply over a 12 months later. Until was all of the sudden on a three-fight dropping streak with a handful of gnarly knee injuries blended between the defeats. Clearly, one thing needed to give.

Till asked for and was granted his release. He initially introduced that he wished to do some boxing after which return to the Octagon, and now now we have some potential readability as to that first step. He hasn’t confirmed himself, however Russia media supply Pink Fury have introduced that he’ll possible be boxing Magomed Ismailov for the CKOPO promotion.

The publish above is the announcement, and the translated caption reads, “In accordance with the knowledge now we have, Magomed Ismailov vs. Darren Until is within the works for one of many tournaments in Russia! The events are at a sophisticated stage of negotiations. This info was confirmed to us by a good friend of Magomed Ismailov.”

Ismailov is well-known on social media, however he isn’t simply an influencer, nevertheless. This ain’t Misfits. He’s a 37-year-old Middleweight with an 18-3-1 skilled document in MMA, in addition to a 3-0 boxing document. He’s overwhelmed some actually good names, top-notch Russian fighters like Aleksander Emelianenko, Ivan Shtyrkov, and Alexander Schlemenko.

Good luck “Gorilla.”

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