Chase DeMoor would gladly fight Darren Till, but he feels it would be a bad idea for Till, and for Misfits Boxing.
Following DeMoor’s victory over Andrew Tate at Misfits Mania, Till ripped the fight, and the fighters, saying he left the fight early, and that he “unlearned” things about fighting. DeMoor reacted to Till’s comments.
“I like Darren Till, like, he’s a nice guy in person,” DeMoor told MMA Fighting. “I think he talks a lot of shit. He waffles a lot, and I know he’s trying to get a big fight because that’s what he does. In the middle of the fight with Andrew, I was looking at him ringside, and I was like kind of smiling at him and having a little talk in the middle of the fight, because the thing is with Darren Til, Darren Till wanted the Andrew Tate fight. He was going on podcasts saying he got it, this and that.
“And, you know, Mams goes on there and goes, ‘Oh, well, I need two pay-per-view stars. I don’t want you guys to fight.’ The thing is, Darren Till, I watched go six rounds in boxing with Anthony Taylor. Anthony Taylor is somebody who I beat up in like one or two rounds, so if Darren Till wants that fight, Darren Till can have that fight with me. OK. But it’s going to turn out the exact same way as the Andrew fight — everybody’s going to have his side and say, ‘Oh, it’s Darren Till and this and that, and blah blah blah’, and then I’m going to get in there and we’re going to fight, and it’s going to be an ugly fight, like I always make it an ugly fight, and we’re going to get out there and everybody’s going to say how bad Darren Till looks.
“I’ve done this, this walk a million times, and I have all the respect in the world for Darren Till, but I’m going to tell him that I don’t think that’s a fight you should take. It did get offered to me. Mams did call me up and say it is a potential fight for next year, and I just kind of basically explained to him, I’m like, ‘Listen, if you want stars, you got to stop sending them to me’. Everything that I do is focused on that. If you look at size ,matchups alone, this isn’t MMA. Darren Till doesn’t have kicks and grapples and all this and that. He’s got to throw punches with a guy with a 90 inch reach. I don’t think it’s going to pan out for him. It hasn’t panned out for anybody else. And if Darren is the first guy to beat me,then so be it, but I just, I don’t see it happening. so that’s my opinion on that.”
DeMoor has been on a tear over the past couple of years, going 10-0-1 since January 2024, including capturing the Misfits heavyweight title and successfully defending it twice — including the win over Tate in December.
Becoming a rising star in the promotion, DeMoor understands why Misfits would want to make a matchup between he and Till. But for “Mr. Belt to Ass,” there are other names that make more sense, and that get him more excited, including a surprising name in the heavyweight MMA landscape.
“There’s a lot of people that make more sense,” DeMoor explained. “Obviously if it makes money, it makes sense. I wouldn’t fight Darren Till for cheap just because it’s a big fight. I would say, for me, like I want to focus on building my own career and my own path, and I think that, you know, Misfits needs a couple superstars. It doesn’t make sense for Misfits to just have one guy. Like if I go in there and I beat Darren Hill, then who else on Misfits is coming to beat me? And vice versa. If he beats me, it’s like, who’s beating Darren Till? We’ve already beat the top guys, and I think that it’s important, too. I like the superfight idea, but I think it’s important to to build each individual person so that there’s more events and there’s more excitement behind it.
“Tommy Fury would be a great fight for me. That’s kind of where I want to go in the direction of boxing. And if it’s not Tommy Fury, then we want another big name. I told everybody leading up to the fight that I wanted to switch over to the pro division fully, vacate the influencer title, and fight real boxers, and I’m very serious about that, and I think that most of the year I’ve spent in other countries fighting anyways.
“You see guys like Anthony Joshua fighting Jake Paul. I don’t know if I’m at that level, but I definitely want to get in there with somebody that’s going to test me. I think Francis Ngannou would be fun. I think that, obviously, like a Nate Diaz, me and him have had back and forth before, would be a fun fight. I think there’s a lot of opportunity for me out there, even, even the Tate rematch is, is still on the table, and I, you know, there’s, there’s so many options other than Darren Hill.
Many would hear DeMoor say Ngannou’s name and question it, especially considering Ngannou’s run as UFC heavyweight champion, as one of the top heavyweight fighters in the sport, along with sharing the squared circle with Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua.
DeMoor is well aware of the dangers Ngannou presents, which is the very reason why he wants the fight so much.
“I watched him fight Tyson and I watched him fight, AJ, and I was taking a picture with Francis — like, we’re the same size,” DeMoor explained. “I just like my odds. I want to get tested, and I think that I haven’t been tested. This is the first fight, you know with Andrewt, the first fight I went the distance in in quite some time, and even then, it was very lopsided. I beat him four rounds to two.
“So, I don’t know. I want to get tested. I want to have a hard camp. I want to get in there and I want to go to that place. You ever heard like Terrence Crawford, he talks about how he said the world never really got to see him at his full potential. It’s just like, I think that I need to go to a place where my full potential gets brought out of me, or I get knocked out. Either or, we’ll know the limit, and I think that’s why I look at Francis Ngannou and I’m like, ‘That sounds exciting.’ If Jake can fight Anthony Joshua, I like a Francis Ngannou.”
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