Darren Till and Yoel Romero faced off Thursday ahead of their BKFC 94 main event clash, scheduled for Saturday night in Manchester, and it was a shorter version of the one that went viral this past August.
The UFC veteran will collide with no gloves at the AO Arena and didn’t break eye contact for a full minute, not until Till extended his hand to shake Romero’s in the end.
Watch the staredown below.
Back in August, when BKFC did a press conference to promote the fight, the veteran fighters stayed firm and faced off for nearly four minutes.
“I think it just got to that point where no one’s turning away,” Till recently told MMA Fighting about the faceoff. “I don’t go off faceoff energy and stuff like that but he broke character first, he was speaking to me and stuff like that and chewing his gum real hard. I was just on my own thing.
“I’m not going to turn away. I’m going to show you exactly what I’m here to do to you as much as you are to do to me. All that stuff ‘I’m scared of you.’ Well look now, who’s scared? I enjoyed it as well. He is a scary guy.”
