Darren Till Explains His Trash Talk Against Ben Askren

Darren Till spoke at a press conference ahead of his fight with Jorge Masvidal at UFC on ESPN+ 5 in March, discussing his social media slams of Ben Askren. Highlights are below, per MMAjunkie

On trash talking Ben Askren: “I’m not on Twitter much, but when I go on, I do cause a stir. 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.”

On his own trash talk: “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 wanker.”