Darren Till believes a fight against the champion would be ‘easier’

Darren Till came up short in the technical striking battle against Robert Whittaker on Saturday but he still managed to get the attention of the middleweight champion. 

Saturday’s main event ended in a close match that results in a decision win for the former champion.

Following the main event of UFC on UFC 14, the middleweight champion took to twitter to admit he would still like to fight Till one day.

“I still wanna fight Till one day,” Adesanya said. “His striking is beautiful. Stay up Darren!”

Till laughed at some of the messages he had sent Adesanya in the past.

“Another good friend,” Till said about Adesanya at the post-fight press conference. “I’m going to have to lay off DM’ing him for a while. All’s I do is scream in videos to him in Instagram videos. But I’ve got a lot of respect for Israel, he’s a great fighter.”

Till knows that he will eventually fight Adesanya on his way to the title but feels he matches up well with the champion.

“This is no disrespect to [Adesanya], I think he’s probably an easier fight for me than Rob,” Till said. “Cause we’d probably have a great striking battle. Rob’s a bit different cause he mixes it up. I know Israel. Israel’s the champ.

“He’s a great MMA fighter, but he’s a pure striker. I think we’d have a great fight. Rob mixed it up a little bit. He’s wilder than me, Rob, like he’ll lunge with his head. Like he caught me with some cracker shots and I was eating them for breakfast.”

Despite the loss, Till is confident he will return soon to the top.

“Listen, me and Israel are going to fight one day,” Till said. “Just give me a little bit of time. I’ll come back, I’ll knock someone out and we’ll fight. Don’t worry, I’m still at the top.”