Darren Till "has a very good chance of beating" Jake Paul, says BKFC boss David Feldman

Feldman says Till fights for BKFC if a fight lands in the next two weeks. If not, there is "an option" for a Jake Paul fight "or something like that".

BKFC president David Feldman says Darren Till "has a very good chance of beating" Jake Paul, and that Till could still get a fight like that if BKFC has nothing for him. Nothing is booked.

"I think that Darren Till can hang in there with Jake Paul, has a very good chance of beating him as well so I think it could raise his profile a lot and he has a chance to make a lot of money," Feldman told MMA Fighting. He said BKFC is "not going to cut our nose off to spite our face", and that "If we have something that works for him, he's going to do that first."

Till's next move rests on an announcement Feldman expects soon. "But if we have a fight that I think we're going to have in the next two weeks to announce, then obviously he's fighting for BKFC," Feldman said. "If we don't then there is an option for him to possibly to fight a Jake Paul or something like that." He said that if BKFC had to lay Till off for eight or nine months, "it's only fair to let him go out and make a payday".

Till has won both his BKFC fights on a three-fight deal. Feldman said "there is a fight or two outside of BKFC that he would like that would be a really, really big payday for him", but that BKFC has options on his next few fights. "There is going to be a longer relationship with BKFC and Darren Till," he said.

Paul faces Cedric Doumbe instead, over eight rounds at the Coca-Cola Arena in Dubai on Thursday 24 December. Till says he had been in camp for two weeks preparing to fight Paul when Doumbe was announced. "If you want to fight me next year, fight me next year," Till said. Feldman told Bloody Elbow he was not sure why Paul did not pick Till, but that "it probably had a little combination to do with, can I get an easier opponent, and do I not have to pay as much money to him?" Paul says he will hang up the gloves if Doumbe beats him.

"We're going to have some big names for Darren Till in the mix very, very shortly," Feldman told MMA Fighting. "One of them will be part of our announcement we're going to make in the next couple weeks." He raised a stadium in Liverpool for Till's next fight, and said Till could also come back to the United States. Feldman has told Bloody Elbow he thinks talks over a BKFC show at Anfield "are going to move forward next week", and that BKFC has "definitely been talking to Team Fury a lot".

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