Since going from ONE Championship to the UFC last year, Ben Askren has called out just about every fighter on the UFC roster.
From Khabib Nurmagomedov to the ‘GOAT’, Artem Lobov, ‘Funky’ has managed to get under everyone’s skin, and Darren Till has had enough of it.
After posting a series of Tweets calling Askren a ‘w-nker’, Till doubled down on those comments at a recent UFC Fight Night 147 press conference.
Till accused ‘w-nker’ Askren of trying to demean other fighters and demonstrate his perceived intellectual superiority.
“I’m not on Twitter much, but when I go on, I do cause a stir,” Till said, per MMA Junkie’s John Morgan and Abbey Subhan. “A lot of people say that I’m drunk, and I’m on drugs when I’m doing it, but I was up at 5 in the morning giving the baby a bottle. So I don’t know, it’s fun for me with Ben because Ben tries to come across on social media as like this clever, intelligent dude – which, listen, I’ve been following Ben for years and years. I remember when I started wrestling in Brazil, my coach, he said, ‘Watch this guy Ben. He’s unbelievable.’ And you know, wrestling, yeah he is. But this is MMA, and his stand-up is absolutely garbage, and he just tries to demean everyone.
“When I call someone out, I’m not trying to demean their skills. That’s what he’s trying to do to me. He’s trying to say, like, I’ve basically got nothing. Yeah, I know I need to evolve. I’ve got a lot of things I want to work on, but don’t discredit what I’m doing. He tries to come across all intelligent, so I just say, basically, ‘Shut up.’ Whatever. I can’t really repeat what I say to him, but you get the gist.
“He’s a w-nker.”
Till may eventually get to fight Askren, but the Liverpudlian currently has his hands full with Jorge Masvidal, an ex-street fighter who originally fought alongside the late Kimbo Slice on the streets of Miami, Florida.
Till vs. Masvidal will headline the upcoming, March 2nd UFC Fight Night 147 card at the O2 Arena in London, England.