{"id":41393,"date":"2026-10-27T19:21:48","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T19:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/Jake-Paul-in-talks-to-fight-exUFC-star-Darren-Till-in-boxing-return-203377"},"modified":"2026-10-27T19:21:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T19:21:48","slug":"jake-paul-in-talks-to-fight-ex-ufc-star-darren-till-in-boxing-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/jake-paul-in-talks-to-fight-ex-ufc-star-darren-till-in-boxing-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Jake Paul in talks to fight ex-UFC star Darren Till in boxing return"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/jake-paul-in-talks-to-fight-ex-ufc-star-darren-till-in-boxing-return.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Darren-Till-73436\">Darren<br \/>\nTill<\/a> has emerged as a potential opponent for <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Jake-Paul-385381\">Jake Paul<\/a>,<br \/>\nwith <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/organizations\/Most-Valuable-Promotions-19337\"><br \/>\nMost Valuable Promotions<\/a> co-founder Nakisa Bidarian confirming<br \/>\nthat discussions are underway for a possible boxing match.<\/p>\n<p>Till was among several names Paul identified as potential opponents<br \/>\nafter announcing his return to boxing earlier this month. Bidarian<br \/>\ntold The Sun that the former <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/organizations\/Ultimate-Fighting-Championship-2\"><br \/>\nUltimate Fighting Championship<\/a> welterweight is one of the<br \/>\ncandidates being considered, although no agreement has been<br \/>\nfinalized.<\/p>\n<div id=\"adViAi\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2>MVP co-founder Nakisa Bidarian confirms Darren Till discussions<br \/>\nas Jake Paul&#8217;s next fight date remains uncertain<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cDarren &nbsp;Till is definitely one of the names that Jake put out<br \/>\nthere on his list,\u201d Bidarian said. \u201cHe\u2019s definitely one of the<br \/>\nnames that we\u2019ve been speaking to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bidarian explained that the timing of Paul\u2019s return would depend on<br \/>\nhow quickly his team could finalize an opponent and arrange<br \/>\ndistribution for the event. If negotiations take several more<br \/>\nweeks, he said, the fight would likely be pushed into early<br \/>\n2027.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, if it takes us another three, four, five weeks to figure this<br \/>\nout, there\u2019s no fighting this year. It\u2019s probably early next year.<br \/>\nIf we figure it out in the next 24 hours, we\u2019ll hopefully get a<br \/>\nfight in this year. But I can\u2019t tell you today if it\u2019s one or the<br \/>\nother. But we\u2019re trying our best to get it done,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Paul has not competed since suffering a sixth-round knockout loss<br \/>\nto <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Anthony-Joshua-356779\">Anthony<br \/>\nJoshua<\/a> in December 2025. Paul broke his jaw in the defeat and<br \/>\nunderwent surgery, followed by another procedure in February.<br \/>\nBidarian announced earlier this month that Paul had been medically<br \/>\ncleared to return to the ring.<\/p>\n<p>Till has continued competing outside the UFC since being released<br \/>\nfrom the promotion in 2023. The Liverpool native won three<br \/>\nconsecutive boxing matches under the Misfits banner, including a<br \/>\nvictory over former UFC champion <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Luke-Rockhold-23345\">Luke<br \/>\nRockhold<\/a>, before signing a multi-fight deal with Bare Knuckle<br \/>\nFighting Championship in April. He most recently defeated <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Yoel-Romero-60762\">Yoel Romero<\/a><br \/>\nby unanimous decision at BKFC 94 in September.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/De_2ns5tQbr\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" readability=\"-0.29166666666667\"><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Darren Till has emerged as a potential opponent for Jake Paul, with Most Valuable Promotions co-founder Nakisa Bidarian confirming that discussions are underway for a possible boxing match. Till was among several names Paul identified as potential opponents after announcing his return to boxing earlier this month. Bidarian told The Sun that the former Ultimate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41394,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-martial-arts-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}