Darren Till has responded to “Platinum” Mike Perry’s callout with his own declaration of war.
Till was largely silent in the lead-up to Perry’s last KnuckleMania fight against Thiago Alves. Possibly because he turned down a reported $2 million payday to fight Perry bare-knuckle, something he’s said he has no interest in doing.
Till wants the fight to go down with boxing gloves, and Perry sounds willing to do that.
“Darren Till, you fat f—ing b—h, get your ass over here or I’ll come to the U.K,” Perry declared in the ring after his first round KO victory (watch it here).
“I have a reason why I called out Darren Till,” Perry wrote on Instagram a day later. “He sits over there talking unforgivable shit. It’s a fight that has needed to happen, all these people talk trash and don’t last long in the ring with me period.”
“F—in bum,” Till replied on Instagram. “I am going to destroy this man when we finally meet. He’s been fighting old slow s—y dopes.”
Perry is contractually allowed to fight outside of BKFC. The trick now is finding a promoter to hold Perry vs. Till, since Till isn’t willing to fight without gloves. Can Till at least pull that together, since he’s the one insisting on a different ruleset? Or will this fight continue to be Perry’s white whale, a bout that never comes together?
It’s been years, man. We’re starting to think Till doesn’t really want it.
