Darren Till
The Gorilla
English
MMA Record 18-5-1
Middleweight (former Welterweight)
Height 6'
Reach 74 1⁄2
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Shuffle shuffle left hand shuffle shuffle left hand...it was only a matter of time before he got figured out
Dan Henderson had the shuffling H-bomb back in the day, and he was known for being quite a stiff fighter as well. But he also had that world-class wrestling to fall back on and use it to trick his opponent so he could land the right hand.
@@madgavin7568 also had an insane chin which is why that h bomb always landed he took one to give you a bomb till doesn’t have a great chin
@@danterodriguez2610 True that. Dan Hendo had one of the GOAT chins regardless of weight-class.
he does use good elbows aswell and people seem to overlook that for some reason
Dan hendo has one hit ko power. Till doesn’t
I always like the way he moved forward. He made sure he was always in position to throw that left hand and never crossed his feet.
Then people realized all they had to do was avoid his left and it was over 🤣
@@jsar5409 masvidal said his jabs felt like straights. What really was the problem was that chin always being in the air and his lack of wrestling defense and now motivation.
That’s not good for MMA tho, you can see that left hand coming a mile away just duck under and get the takedown. Till doesn’t throw enough check hooks and crossing your feet isn’t necessarily bad, there’s a correct way to cross your feet but you have to switch your stance as well
You mean leading with his face?
Too bad his left hand is the only thing he throws
Even back then the straight left was his only weapon 😂
Looking back at these fights i actually can’t believe we all thought he was so good,crazy
At least there was a level of fluidity to the left hand, it was fast and laser accurate. Unfortunately Darren could never build anything further off the 1-2, no combinations, no hooks, no kicks.
@@yeeeaaahmayneee3808 you dont go the distance with a guy like the reaper and not be good. i just think his grappling really lets him down and after the woodly fight every fighter on the roster new that could be a route to beating him. his elbows are nasty aswell and people over look that for some reason
@@ThistleForge i was thinking about that as well,i just think he’s not good but going to distance in a close fight with the reaper is pretty good
Some of the best elbows in the game but you carry on being stupid 😂
Imagine if he had a right hook, how many exchanges would've been a KO
That’s exactly what I realised when I was watching the video. He almost never throws hooks, all he has is a 1-2 combo, all his punches are straights. There is no variation which makes it difficult for him to finish his opponents.
@@Maxbronx4122 very unfortunate but he stayed one dimensional
He needs body kicks as well. It would change his game big time
Do u mean a left hook?
@@Z4N3 nah if till had a right hook he’d be so much more dangerous, OP is saying that currently he only has a left….. imagine a Till 3-2 if it had actual power
I liked the part where he threw a straight left
@devoncarreiro350 🤣😂🤣😂🤣 that’s a hilarious comment….you’re a funny guy lol
Not unstoppable, but a really good up and coming fighter when he started his UFC run
He kind of reminds me of Costa, Had a decent streak, fought a fighter that fought for the title and then got beat by the champ
@@tateslife6836 except Costa didn’t go 1-4 after
@@clarkdark2906 on similar trajectory though, 1-1 and if he fought Robert it would've been 1-2
@@tateslife6836 costa still doing great af
@@tateslife6836 he’s only lost twice😭 horrible comparison.
The UFC pushed him too quickly. They learned their lesson with O'Malley. I hope Darren can bounce back i love em
the ufc didn’t push him too quickly, once he fought anybody with good grappling he was destroyed, he was way too one dimensional to ever be an elite fighter
I don't think so. He beat wonderboy, who was number 1 contender at the time and then obviously there is nowhere else to go but for a title fight. Then he lost to woodley because of the grappling which he still hasn't improved at all to this day. Then jorge put him to sleep and as a result he lost his confidence. Now he hasn't evolved and is the same fighter with the same strategy and no grappling at all.
@@massojupiter3436 ima have to disagree because i feel he shouldnt have been in that #1 contender fight regardless. It was way to early in his career. Bro fought 4 cans, one of those can fights ended in a draw btw. Then he fought cowboy who is objectively not elite, then wonderboy and tyron. Then Jorge and Kelvin at middleweight who was #1 at the time. Darren was 25 thats crazy young. Of course hes underdeveloped how can you expect a guy to develop that quick? Guys like conor and jon jones are extraordinarily rare. Guys generally don't win big fights that young. That said he has no excuse for being this bad at takedown defense now that hes 12 ufc fights in and been training with khamzat. Actually makes no sense to me hes the exact same fighter as he was back then
@@thechief2821what makes something objectively not elite. That’s literally subjective
@@jakeboehm5267 dude never won a belt, hasn't beat a top 5 opponent in literally a decade, and has lost 6 straight fights. That's pretty objective to me
He has the ability to be great. He was timing those knees and elbows great on Du Plessis. He needs to add body kicks into his arsenal and throw more. Also should probably go back to 170.
And now he looks impossible to not stop.
His game evolves purely around that left hand, but its not as refined as McGregors left is/was for example. McGregor had different tools that forced his opponent to circle into it and pressuring them to do something that played into his hand, literally. But it seems Tills offense purely relies of fainting and slowly hopping into range to line up the left. Oversimplification but u get the jist of it. It worked for a while but something changed, maybe its the step up in competition. It also seems that hes first off undersized at MW and that his tools for offense has been reduced to just jabs, faints and a left straight once in a blue moon.
He never really improved. He keeps his head high and even in his prime he still takes shots to the face.
thank you for making this
Any decent welterweight can look unstoppable against cowboy. This is his only stoppage win in the UFC. Let that sink in. He barely eeked out a decision against Wonderboy while missing weight by 4 pounds.
He KOed Wendel de Oliveira In his debut
@@DanCooksFood who?!?!? Lol but seriously I remember the stoppage, elbows on the ground. 2 stoppages that aren’t that great yet he “ knocks everyone out” lol😊
tbh edging out a wonderboy decision as a striker is way more impressive than a finish against cowboy or most strikers in general
He LOST vs wonderboy CLEARLY. Every rd. Blatant robbery.
He should of stayed at Welterweight, he had more of a chance but I think he messed up his career by going to middleweight
He looked unstoppable going up against cans for sure
I think Darren should watch this repeatedly to reabsorb what he was!
wouldn’t do him good. it’s not like till has changed. his level of competition has changed. if anything he should watch to realize that he needs more weapons than just a left hand and left high kick
@@hellothere4431 that's true, the game keeps improving as fighters keep bringing better skill sets
@@hellothere4431 That isn't true at all. His situation is similar to Tony. His body is completely fucked. He has lost his athleticism which he heavily relied on, as you would expect.
He only uses the left hand and elbow and knee he doesn't really mix it up or throw combos
@@mrfeelgood992 no he relied on having a size and power advantage
Everyone has a different ceiling. Few have a ceiling in the top 5 of the UFC, and almost no one has a UFC champ ceiling. We see it again and again. A guy steamrolls his way up to the that top group in the division, but its really not easy once you get there.
It’s tough to say, because if till would have stayed at 170, and actually got decent tdd. He could have definitely became a champion.
Khamzat is a great example of this, when he entered the UFC he looked unstoppable; he'd won and finished more fights and earned more PotN bonuses than significant strikes absorbed which is utterly insane. That war with Gilbert Burns was a pleasant surprise, where we found out that while Khamzat is human after all, he does have a championship ceiling.
@@rico14 No chance. He got steamrolled by Woodley and Masvidal. And that was before guys like Khamzat, Rakhmonov, Burns, Colby, Edwards and Usman reached the top of the division.
@@rico14 good take down defence wouldn’t have made him a better fighter than the guys at the top of the division. It would take A LOT more than that
@@staynielherbayn657 It’s impossible to say, but prime till had the talent.
If Till still wants to- I think he can put on some good performances. Till has to change up his training and his coaches tho. (Honestly, I'm frustrated Till's team let him take those string of bad fights. When he wasn't in the right place to take those. He would have been so much better off if he took all that time off, to get any treatment, repair, recovery. Then after that, him and his new coaches start training to add more layers to his fighting approach so there is more than just setting up a left hand and improving how he responds to the fight momentum. What happens if the fight starts swinging in the wrong direction yet he can recover and shift the fight back in his momentum. I hope he gets to a place where he fully flows and let's go of any overthinking or hesitation or lack of urgency to bring the fight to his opponent. No more overthinking, waiting, instead, just reacts to whatever unfolds. He can do better. His team should have been there for him. )
Does he use his right hand?
Ironically, looking at this made me realize how overhyped he actually was. Dont get me wrong he was good, but be barely has any diversity. He has excellent movement, chin is always up a bit but that's his confidence. Idk what all Till needs to find but I love him as a person. As a fighter he needs to utilize everything in his arsenal. I still believe in him and he has plenty of time before it's really over for him, he JUST turned 30. Yes injuries here and there but still, at least hes not TJ's age dealing with an injury.
I’d love to help him diversify his punching. I’ve been a boxer all my life and a boxing trainer for half of it. I’ve helped in mixed martial artist camps as a boxing coach before and I think that just adding more punch diversity with his timing and reflexes could totally change his fortunes moving forward.
man, I love darren till, i'm an orthodox fighter but i like to learn from him as a southpaw
The guy in the red shorts 3:29 has a win over Jiri Prochazka
Really? That’s interesting
I was rooting for bro. Dam
I seriously think he should take a good year off and comeback maybe by November/December at WW. He looked really good there
3:30 interesting fact, Velikovic knocked out Jiří Procházka in 2012 lol
Back when he mixed his signature left hand up with various knees, elbows, and backfist combos. Now he just mixes it up with feints.
thats what ive been thinking, his offense tools now only seem to be faints, jabs and a left hand that rarely comes out. The 1-2 was always his best combo but it just seems thats all he throws nowadays
man, ireland and the UK love their left hands
I really want to see him win again man…
Till has a great left and elbow but that’s simply not enough to go and stay at the top in the ufc nowadays. He also doesn’t fight with that pressure/confidence anymore
3:42 Jab
One of the best left straights in mma
Crazy he only had 2 stoppages in the ufc
He looked to me like a guy who only had a 1 2 and held his chin straight up in the air
The left hand is beautiful
100% ✌️
Overuses it though
@@AroundElvesWatchUrselves96 facts
Sure, against a few guys that were not UFC caliber fighters, and an aging lightweight Cerrone..
Look at how things have changed
3:45 ouch
This should be titled “southpaw left straight compilation”
He should go back to 170 and get in the Barberena legends league. Matt Brown, Robbie Lawler, those types of guys, see if he can work his way back up
The streets of Brazil will never forget.
Ya fuck man. Always liked Darren. Went from challenging for a title to what we see today. Although he looked good against DDP, its still a loss. Hes still young, hope he is able to turn things around.
3:45 🫣
Maybe we don't gonna see Darren like this anymore
Never had this confidence at middleweight against guys his actual size
A giant fall from grace
I'm glad he's training with KhamC.
He’s got to get back down to 170
Yes,at 185 he's stiff,but he looked like a ghoul at 170
His move to 185 killed him. He used to look so sharp and whippy. Now he looks slow and unconfident.
He was still a 1 trick pony here but at least he used the jab and occasionally some low/high kicks. All he has now is a left straight and nothing else
If the ufc treated Darren like a paddy or suga he’d be a champ, so much unfulfilled potential
You mean fighting unranked guys ?
its weird seeing Till successfully wrestle
I wish the UFC didn't fast track him to the title. He needed more time to develop and instead he got thrown to the wolves and hasn't had an easy match aside from Gastelum where they were both gun shy.
Omg I thought it was Martialmind 🤣
Yeees ❤
I miss Darren till
yeasirrrr
Till's form in the fight with Cerrone is simply shocking
In a good way or bad way?
@@liamrmorgans921 In a great way, that was the most fit he’s looked besides maybe Woodley fight
@@billsmafia7769 👍
Darren had real talent....
Darren in his prime
Because he started fighting ranked guys and the pressure probably got to him in his first loss.
don't care what people say he is my fav fighter
ian garry reminds me alot of prime Till
I think Till’s hands look a bit more crisp
Tbh I don't see that much of a difference between this and what he does now. Just now he's doing it up a weight class and against better opposition so it doesn't work. Maybe he just overachieved with his WW run and hasn't really 'fallen off' now.
1:01 wait hold up did I just see a takedown lol
Du plessis watching and giggling
Darren Till should get a good nutritionist & move down to 17O. In my opinion he should divide his time with Duane Ludwig (for striking) & AKA (for grappling)
Darren till is highly skilled he has physicality he is young idk what happened why did he decline
looked 'promising' rather than unstoppable
Need to move back to welterweight
Even back then though still all he had was the left hand
He should really try to move back down. Unless he takes the time to properly bulk up, I feel MWs are just gonna give him problems.
yeah, versus old cerrone and in boring lackluster decision wins thats it
He was so much better as a mma fighter at 24 wtf… till is killing me
He was good until he fought good competition
He knows how to throw a left hand 👏. N ummm ya left hand. It only took masvidal a round to figure him out
Lol masvidal? He almost has as many losses as tiĺ has fights
@@markroyds23 getting knocked out cold at home by a guy that has more losses than u have fights. I guess ur right that's even more embarrassing.
He has to go back to welterweight
No one can throw that right feint to straight left like prime McGregor, McGregor hid it using flashy techniques as slieght of hand, Till just keeps spamming it over and over, was only a matter of time.
He could have been a serious problem if he didn’t exclusively use the left side of his body
After getting hit with the left 100 times you may want to keep your hands up 🤦
I recently saw mma guru talking about till getting ripped up and going up in weight and that wouldn’t help he’s chasing bitches with chimaev lol
Woodley messed him up, he was rushed to the stardom quickly and when he fought for the title against an already declining woodley and was defeated his big mentality was broken I think that's exactly what will happen to paddy, except paddy will never reach what till's succes, and will be done in his next before even reaching top 10
I disagree. It was the Masvidal KO. He looked amazing at the beginning of that fight, despite the woodley finish. But then...
@@SSFYHHH Compounding this is the fact he looked so much more gun-shy against Kelvin Gastelum.
His energy isn't the same an that's my biggest grab at what he's changed... Dudes not screaming hyped but he's getting in trouble with khamzat doing stupid shit then when the cams are on him he never takes advantage anymore
Till should have stayed in the welterweight division. He wasn't disciplined enough to do so though. I thought when he teamed up with Khamzat he would get pushed hard enough to get back on track but I guess not. Maybe we'll see him in BKFC next because I know Mike Perry is interested in that fight.
His days were numbered at welterweight due to how difficult the weight cuts were. Going temporarily blind to make weight your body can't do to many of those. BKFC would be very interesting. I think he could do well there. 🤔
Has anyone ever told Darren he has a right hand and foot also? Maybe he just doesn’t know? 😂
He should meet Conor at 170. I feel like no one’s talking about that as Conor’s return fight. Not the highest level match up by any means but it’ll be good for both of em to get their footing back. That or Wonderboy.
Till needs to go back to welterweight and train TDD
I never thought he was as good as they made him out to be. I am not saying he was not talented dude would scrap and put on great fights. Even though he lost to masvidal that fight was still a good one till it ended
4:24
24 year old Darren Till looked unstoppable when fighting bums a weight class below his natural weight
If only he hadn't got that ACL tear because once your knees are shot it's essentially over for a fighter.
It’s actually a super common injury in mma and most fighters are able to completely recover.
Woodley took his soul
Unstoppable or Lack of competition?
Wtf he looks kinda smaller than cowboy how is he a MW
Loss from Masvidal and Woodley derailed his whole ambition in UFC. Masvidal was the last fight where he looked great at. Then it's like his flame was extinguished. Shame, I like Till
He looked good in the Whittaker fight though. Then the knee problems started happening after the fight
Make Till fight unranked fighters, he will start to look unstoppable again. Rankings are there for a reason. Also I am counting the WB fight as a KO loss for Till, which is what would have happened if he cut the extra 3.5 lbs by draining himself.
You can’t count a fight as a ko loss when they’ve won a decision.
@@elshanks1578 while being 3.5 overweight. Mention the whole story.
@@somdutroy doesn’t matter. That’s hypothetical. The fact was that he didn’t lose by knockout 🤷♂️
@@elshanks1578 I said, "I am counting it as..." That just means that it is my opinion. It is another way of saying the win does not really count for WW contendership, again in my opinion.
He was awful against Du Plessis who is awful himself. He's done unfortunately. Too many injuries as well.
Dude literally has 2 strikes a left straight or a left elbow
So much more diversity in his attacks. Even in his moments of success in his last fight, he was just spamming one-twos. Seems like he’s just not as comfortable in the octagon anymore. Really sad to see.
Spamming 1-2s and left elbows, hardly any kicks or knees, and zero combinations. Too hesitant and gun-shy as well.
Till should have never left 170
And now out of the ufc, crazy fall
Pushed way too fast
0:37
0:57 3:45
I mean he was good at landing the left hand but against elite fighters he can't just win like this specially when he's fighting bigger and better opponents now I donno why people think he fell off, he has just not evolved enough to beat bigger and better fighters.
He's actually gotten worse because he's so scared to attack now, and his wrestling is more exposed at middleweight.
@@sukhdevr3489 true, he was barely even point fighting a gassed out Du Plessis, let alone actually trying to hurt him, very gunshy.
@@Ar1AnX1x I was actually kinda hyped for his last fight. I thought he'll get a TKO. his performance was so disappointing.
Hopefully he moves back to ww.
He really didnt though. He looked like a young guy who would need to improve vs better fighters. Nothing wrong with that. We all hit our ceiling. He waent never gonna get the wrestling required to help. And recently the dude despite his body falling apart, went to a place known for overtraining fighters. (Allstars) Like he did it to himself being a UFC last minute fight lacky. And by branching too far from his base
He was rushed into it imo. This has happened to fighters who look promising and are scouse. It’s sad to see tbh. Dana seed markability and shoves them down people’s throats (like paddy and molly) or rushes them to the top too early cos of their personality. Hopefully the next scouse prospect isn’t rushed and can fully solidify themsleves at the top.
@@jw045 it’s because of his acl. Rob destroyed his knee with an oblique kick and he’s never recovered since.
@@jw045 well fuck Paddy and Molly tbh Darren doesnt have a history of saying racist and homophobic stuff online like those to do the past 10 years. Oaddy was the firdt non UFC fighter i added online because he looks a spitting image of my mate. The dude would literally post nationalist party rhetoric and talk about migrants taking peoples jobs and all of that. Let me give you some context here. When paddy was trying to make himself the Spokespereon for Mens Suicide. He was(and still is) on a lifetime ban on social media for targeted Harrassment and Hatespeech. Because he doxxed anyone who argued with him. Especially if they were from his town. He was banned for giving peoples personal informstion out in order to get his fans to do something. That Khunt's fate since fight island has always been eventually being fed to Toporia on his run to the title. Paddy has been this level since his Debut... And hasnt progressed mentally or skillset wise. And his diet is way worse between camps. So yeah outside me hwting him. Dont go betting the house on his skillset carrying him anywhere
@@jw045 and i say this as an Australian who lived in St Helens and Birmingham. I have nothing but resoect for the working class folk out there. But that clown aint who you wanna hang your coat and Scouse identity on. Thsoe anti migrant types all work at box factories. And if you are worrying about being outskilled at the cardboard box factory... I say good. Becausr thats entry level work. It only gets harder after that in any other job. Making boxes is a hard job because its "I wanna shoot myself in the face this is so boring" hard. Its not like skillset hard. And if you are getting outskilled YOU ARE THE PROBLEM
Izzy is the same division. A striker. And showed what sticking to your base as adding things that help that work. And showed ehat good coaching and training can do. And till also got alot bigger when he went uo so he cuts abiut the same amount of weight at MW as he did at WW So yeah all of his "Changes" were counter productive to hisstyle and body. And injuries followed