Overview

• Misfits Boxing has confirmed Darren Till will headline the August 30 card at Manchester’s AO Arena against ex-UFC middleweight champion Luke Rockhold, who will make his pro boxing debut.
• Dillon Danis will return to MMA on the undercard, facing Warren Spencer in his first fight since a Bellator exit and a disqualification loss to Jake Paul in 2023.
• Danis criticized Till’s training on social media, prompting Till to mock Danis’s Bellator tenure and past controversies in a heated online exchange.
• Tensions boiled over at an early-August press conference in London when Till and Rockhold engaged in a physical confrontation and Till compared Rockhold’s ego to that of Conor McGregor.
• In interviews, Till has embraced the influencer-driven boxing scene for its rapid purses and exposure, defending Jake Paul’s status as a legitimate boxer and pledging to “wipe” Rockhold out on fight night.