Moment Darren Till made explosive threat to Tommy Fury that caused him to pull out of fight

Tommy Fury has pulled out of a fight with Darren Till that was supposed to be going ahead on 18 January next year.

It was all pencilled in for them to punch seven shades of s**t out of each other in Manchester next month in a boxing match put on by KSI's Misfits group, but that now doesn't look likely.

Fury took to his Instagram Stories to announce he wasn't going to be fighting Till, accusing his opponent of not wanting to stick to the rules of boxing.

Telling people that there was 'good news around the corner', Fury wrote: I can't believe l'm writing this but I am now not fighting Darren Till on January 18th 2025. For the one simple reason being that Darren has stated over and over that he does not want to abide by professional boxing rules and that if he is losing the fight he will resort to kicking and other stupid MMA tactics.

Darren Till insisted he wouldn't have broken the rules of boxing. (Julian Finney/Getty Images)

"I am a professional boxer, I have been out of the ring for over a year and I wanted this to be a great BOXING fight for the fans. I have wasted weeks in training camp. We are working hard to get a new opponent and date. I promise to get a better opponent and better fight for you guys."

In the lead-up to the fight that's now not happening, Till had made some comments about how if anyone punched him he would 'kick them in the face'.

At a press conference Till said: "If I'm in that fight and I'm losing I'm gonna go 'right, I'm kicking him in the face now' and you ain't gonna do s**t'."

He also told Norske Bettingsider about sparring with Tyson Fury, saying he managed to 'just take him down easily' and if he could do that to Tyson then Tommy wasn't going to be a threat to him.

"Here’s the thing. I'm a realist," Till said about fighting a boxer.

"Nobody in that press conference was a threat to me - not John, not Tommy. Because if I want to turn, and I turn, and if someone punches me, I’ll kick them in the face. I will.

"I can get my leg up as quick as a jab. I’ll kick them in the face, take them down, and then they’re in a world of trouble."

Responding to Fury's announcement that the fight was off, Till insisted that 'never in a million years would I throw a head kick in a fight that is only boxing rules' and called Tommy 'the biggest s**thouse I have ever met in my life'.

Posting a video on social media, he claimed that his threats to kick Tommy Fury in the face were a 'mental warfare tactic' and he was just trying to talk up the fight.

Things were said at a press conference, with Till threatening to kick Fury's face, but he later said he wasn't serious about it. (Julian Finney/Getty Images)

He added that he wouldn't even need to kick Fury because the boxer was 'divvy' and 'getting knocked spark out' regardless.

Till said: "Tommy Fury u are the biggest s**thouse I have ever met in my life do not ever call yourself a fighter again I was selling the fight to make me and you more money you absolute empty head fighting family my a** you and ur dad s**thouses I don’t need to throw kicks you was getting knocked spark out you divvy we was making bank on this fight cos of me not you I was building it you should be fighting and should be thanking me… over and out… no one wants to fight me… Jake Paul what are you up to you big fat dummy?"

The MMA fighter said he'd been telling 'everyone that Tommy was going to pull out regardless of anything' and reckons this has only 'confirmed what I said' and he 'f**king knew it since the press conference'.