Darren Till stops Aaron Chalmers in second round at BKFC 90
Darren Till made his bare-knuckle debut and scored a stoppage victory over Aaron Chalmers in the co-main event at BKFC 90 at Utilita Arena in Birmingham. Chalmers dropped Till early, but in the second round Till knocked down Chalmers and the referee completed a 10-count, ending the bout by decisive stoppage. The light heavyweight fight was Till’s first outing under a three-fight BKFC deal he signed in April. Till left the UFC in 2022 and spent the intervening period in boxing and other combat activity before his BKFC debut. Sources reported he compiled four boxing wins, and one account described those bouts as including exhibition and influencer matches and noted he made his professional boxing debut last year against Luke Rockhold, so reports vary on whether all four wins were professional. Till weighed 188.8 pounds at the BKFC 90 weigh-ins, his lightest recorded weight since December 2022, after earlier moving up from welterweight to middleweight in the UFC and later bulking up to just under 200 pounds for his first pro boxing match. Chalmers weighed 187.8 pounds at the weigh-ins, entered BKFC 90 2-0 in BKFC, and brought a crossover résumé that included a 5-2 MMA record from BAMMA and Bellator and an exhibition with Floyd Mayweather Jr. in 2023. BKFC 90’s headline bout was Connor Tierney versus Rico Franco for the interim BKFC welterweight title. A brawl between Tierney and Franco broke out during the face-offs at the weigh-ins, briefly overshadowing the Till–Chalmers stare-down. MMA Fighting provided live results and play-by-play coverage of the event.
