Darren Till’s recent brawl outside of a pub in Liverpool was nothing but an attempt to sell wolf tickets for an eventual fight against Lee Browne.
The MMA (mixed martial arts) world has been seeing more and more wolf tickets sold, as Nick Diaz used to call them. Wolf tickets are the tickets people buy when they think a beef is real, but it’s not. We saw it with Sean Strickland and Khamzat Chimaev. And now we’re seeing it with Darren Till and Lee Browne, on a much smaller stage.
Till was caught on camera
punching Browne outside a pub. But lest you think that was real animosity on display, here’s Till talking about how he and Browne only did it to gas up a potential future fight under Till’s Gorilla Promotions boxing organization.
“I said, ‘Look, come to Gorilla. We’ll cause a little bit of a fuss and stuff like that.'” Till tod Full Mount MMA. “So he caused a little bit of fuss inside. I said, ‘Look, we’ll have a little bit of back and forth inside and outside. We’ll get it fired, and we’ll build a name off that.’ And he was all for it.”
“I feel like what we’ve done inside of Gorilla, if you can see the videos from that, and outside of it, I give him a little slap or two, and I can’t remember what he done fully in Gorilla, we were arguing inside, and he threw something. I think he threw a bottle of water, and it just nicked me. And outside, I gave him a little slap.”
“I think we’ve done our job, you know?” Till concluded. “We’re going to be putting him on Gorilla. We’re going to be getting him two good fights on there. And if he comes through unscathed, mate, that’s a showdown.”
Why Till is letting us see behind the curtain up to a year before a fight with Browne can happen is beyond us. Even Strickland and Chimaev waited until after the event to reveal they were mostly playing around for attention. But now you know: Till and Browne are pulling a work!
For now, it’s not just Browne who needs to win his next fights to set up a Till match. Till needs to get the job done in Manchester on September 26th when he fights Yoel Romero at BKFC 94.
