{"id":319024,"date":"2025-08-05T05:37:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T05:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/319024\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T05:37:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T05:37:10","slug":"misfits-boxing-22-odds-darren-till-opens-as-sizable-betting-favorite-over-fading-ufc-veteran-luke-rockhold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/319024\/","title":{"rendered":"Misfits Boxing 22 odds: Darren Till opens as sizable betting favorite over fading UFC veteran Luke Rockhold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"OZJfpy\">There was a time in the not-too-distant past when Luke Rockhold was the UFC middleweight champion and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2016\/5\/16\/11686618\/latest-ufc-rankings-update-stipe-miocic-debuts-pound-for-pound-vitor-belfort-steady-185-mma\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ranked No. 3 in the world<\/a> on the promotion\u2019s pound-for-pound list, just behind Demetrious Johnson and Jon Jones.<\/p>\n<p id=\"WCjDRS\">These days, the 40 year-old Rockhold is barely holding on to what\u2019s left of his combat sports career, losing his last three UFC fights \u2014 which includes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2020\/9\/23\/21453077\/ufc-253-free-fight-jan-blachowicz-knocks-out-luke-rockhold-full-video-espn-fight-island-mma\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">two losses by way of devastating knockout<\/a> \u2014 before getting his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2023\/5\/2\/23707837\/mike-perry-describes-knocking-luke-rockholds-teeth-in-at-bkfc-41-i-felt-that\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">teeth smashed in for BKFC<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p id=\"hiH46E\">That\u2019s probably why he\u2019s the underdog at Misfits Boxing 22.<\/p>\n<p id=\"UebdfA\">Rockhold opened +220 for his \u201csweet science\u201d debut against Darren Till, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/sportsbook\/boxing\/bouts\/bouts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BetOnline.ag<\/a>. \u201cThe Gorilla,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/5\/16\/24431546\/watch-video-highlights-misfits-boxing-21-results-dazn-ppv-darren-till-knockdown-stewart-ufc-buzzer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">no stranger to the win column on the Misfits Boxing scene<\/a>, clocked in at -260 \u2014 though odds will likely shift in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p id=\"nMN9RT\">Till and Rockhold collide on Sat., Aug. 30, 2025 at AO Arena in Manchester, England.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ibx4nX\">\u201cI actually think Luke could have been a GOAT, like truly,\u201d Till said at the kickoff press conference. \u201cWhat gets Luke in trouble is his ego, his pride, how vain he is, and all that stuff. When you put that together as a collective, psychologically, he fails at it. And that\u2019s what happens with Luke, his ego is too much. You can\u2019t have an ego like this in this game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"bSJacu\">For much more on the upcoming Misfits 22 boxing event click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/7\/23\/24473370\/angry-washed-up-tony-ferguson-fires-back-bitch-haters-telling-him-to-retire-im-not-going-to-quit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There was a time in the not-too-distant past when Luke Rockhold was the UFC middleweight champion and ranked&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[27616,4304,1935,18648,18643,94519,83059,163,1501,47907,18638,18647,66887,55685,49079,101855,115856,79,18644,5706,12137,115857,16,15,27448],"class_list":{"0":"post-319024","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-as","9":"tag-betting","10":"tag-boxing","11":"tag-com","12":"tag-darren","13":"tag-fading","14":"tag-favorite","15":"tag-front-page","16":"tag-latest-news","17":"tag-luke","18":"tag-misfits","19":"tag-mmamania","20":"tag-odds","21":"tag-opens","22":"tag-over","23":"tag-rockhold","24":"tag-sizable","25":"tag-sports","26":"tag-till","27":"tag-ufc","28":"tag-ufc-news","29":"tag-ufc-odds","30":"tag-uk","31":"tag-united-kingdom","32":"tag-veteran"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114974545967411749","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}