Darren Till’s long-running Anfield daydream is starting to look like a real event. BKFC president Dave Feldman told Bloody Elbow in an exclusive interview that the promotion’s talks to stage a show at Liverpool Football Club’s stadium are “very, very serious.” He said those talks should move forward next week and that answers are coming within the next few weeks. Bloody Elbow reported that the most likely opponent for Till is his longtime rival, Tommy Fury.
Feldman framed the whole thing as survival. He called BKFC “kind of like the step child of combat sports” and said “we have to do something big and we are going to do something big.” He also compared the promotion to where MMA sat two decades back: “we are MMA 20 years ago, where everybody looked at it cross-eyed.”
The venue math helps him. BKFC ran a show at Fenway Park this past August, and Fenway Park and Anfield are both owned by Fenway Sports Group. That means there’s already a working relationship between the promotion and the people who hold the keys.
How Till Got Here
Till, 33, beat Yoel Romero at BKFC 94 in September. That was his second appearance in the BKFC ring. After the win he was in talks with Jake Paul about a boxing match, right up until Paul announced he’d fight Cedric Doumbe next instead.
Till has been asking for an Anfield fight for years. Back in the UFC, his plan was to win a title and get the promotion to hold a big event there. He never got the belt, and the UFC never went to Anfield.
The Fury history is messy. He and Till were scheduled to box in 2025, and the fight was canceled after Fury withdrew. Fury has since been talking with BKFC about a signing, and Feldman said the promotion has “definitely been talking to team Fury a lot,” adding that he hopes it becomes part of the discussions over the next couple of weeks.
Then Till opened his mouth, which is what he does. On the Ariel Helwani Show on Monday, Till said his manager called him a few weeks ago and asked him to apologize to John Fury for things he’d said in the past. Till refused. He said he wouldn’t apologize to the Furys even if it guaranteed him a £10 million fight with Tommy. Feldman wasn’t thrilled, telling Bloody Elbow, “I don’t think Darren did us any good last night blasting Tommy Fury and John Fury on the podcast but it’s business and everyone’s in it to make money.”
My take: the promoter is worried about the wrong guy. Till trashing the Fury family is the marketing campaign, and it costs BKFC nothing. The number I care about is the one on Fury’s side of the ledger. This matchup has been booked once, and Fury pulled out of it once. That’s a 100% withdrawal rate on a sample size of one, and I’ve watched sharper people than me lose money on smaller red flags. Fury still hasn’t signed with BKFC, so until there’s ink on paper and a date on the Anfield calendar, I’m treating this like a prop bet with no posted line. The next checkpoint is Feldman’s talks next week.
