Tommy Fury has reiterated his bizarre reason for pulling out of the fight against Darren Till in a bizarre rant.
The Love Island star was due to make his return to boxing on January 18 after more than a year out of the ring, but decided to cancel the fight just weeks away earlier this month. He cited a seemingly obvious ironic insistence that Till made, claiming that if he lost, he would just kick.
Now it looks like Till will face another opponent to be announced soon, with Fury himself teasing a new announcement. He has called Jake Paul and his brother Logan, although it is not yet known if a deal is on the table.
Tommy Fury pulled out of the Darren Till fight due to the kick threat
On Friday, December 6, Tommy Fury announced via his Instagram Stories that he would not be attending the main event of the Misfits Boxing event in Manchester in January. He claimed that Darren Till's threats of a kick were the reason he moved on to another fight.
However, Till argued that Fury, as the A-side of the fight and the bigger star, could have simply asked for a new opponent. Instead, he withdrew from the event completely, leaving the promotion to look for a new main event.
“I can't believe I'm writing this, but I will not be fighting Darren Till on January 18, 2025,” he wrote in a lengthy statement.
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“The one simple reason is that Darren has stated time and time again that he does not want to play by professional boxing rules and that if he loses the fight he will resort to kicking and other stupid MMA tactics.
“I'm a professional boxer, I've been out of the ring for over a year and I wanted this to be a great BOXING fight for the fans. I wasted weeks at training camp.
“We are working hard to find a new opponent and date. I promise I will get a better opponent and fight better for you. Good news around the corner.”
Tommy Fury stands next to Darren Till who retreats as he repeats the reasoning
Over the past week, the influencer boxing star has been focused not on his own career, but on the efforts of his heavyweight champion brother Tyson Fury to regain his titles. He was in Riyadh to support his sibling and spoke to IFL TV about his next steps.
And in one of his first interviews since the incident, he explained why he pulled out of the fight, telling Kugan Cassius: “Listen, at the end of the day, I'm a professional fighter and the reason why I chose Darren wasn't that. and then delete the card.
“It was because Darren has no business brain, Darren is what he is at the end of the day. I come here to fight and the last thing I want is for someone to lose a few rounds and do something stupid like take me down.
“I'm not interested in that, it's not a circus. I know they're Misfits and I know they all love that but I don't want that for my career so at the end of the day you've got a guy on the phone with gambling companies or whatever saying he's going to do this and do this That.
'I don't need that, to be honest. If you want to behave like this, no problem, you will be replaced and we look forward to a much bigger and better fight. Darren had a chance and he blew it because he's an idiot.
“In front of his whole family and his whole team or whatever, that's what happens when you think you're smart and you're not. I wanted a good fight and the guy is talking about rolling on the ground. If I wanted to do that, I would have gone to MMA, right?”
Tommy Fury claims there is precedent for his concerns about Darren Till
In Fury's defense, he brought up the farcical boxing debut Till had on the undercard of Abdu Rozik's fight in Dubai over the summer. The former UFC star faced Mohammad Mutie and the fight degenerated into a brawl after his rival retired after shots to the back of the head in the second.
“I don't lose sleep over Darren Till, believe me,” he continued. “All people have to do is watch his first and only boxing match, the carnage, the stupidity, the mayhem and something that I'm just not interested in.
“I'm not being funny, but he comes to boxing and that was going to be the biggest payday of his life that I gave him. I'm not interested in messing with Darren Till on the floor. We're going to get a good opponent and a bigger and better fight. He's in the back of my mind, he's nobody.'
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