Khamzat Chimaev thinks Darren Till should have spent his most recent training camp with him.
Till (18-5-1 MMA, 6-5-1 UFC) was submitted by Dricus Du Plessis at UFC 282 in December. It was his fifth loss in six fights. It’s been a rough stretch for the former welterweight title challenger, who trained at Tiger Muay Thai in Phuket, Thailand, for his fight against Du Plessis.
But Chimaev (12-0 MMA, 6-0 UFC) is confident that he would have been able to help Till out had they trained together in Sweden – especially that he was stopped on the ground.
“For his last fight, he trained here at Tiger,” Chimaev said in an interview with Red Corner MMA. “I don’t know who he trained with. Yes, we are close friends with Darren, but he has his own coaches. He is a grown man. He knows what to do. If he’d trained with me in Sweden, it would’ve been a different fight for sure. This is my opinion, at least.”
Till has been plagued with injuries in recent years, but Chimaev says there are even more that he’s yet to address. “Borz” has since reunited with Till in Thailand.
“Darren has a lot of problems nobody knows about,” Chimaev added. “He needs to take care of them. He needs to fix his knee. He needs a knee surgery, but he takes fights instead. I said to him, ‘Hey, do the surgery first, then fight.’ We will see. He knows what to do. I have been helping him in every way I could and I will keep doing so.”
