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Published 18:12 14 Sept 2018 BST
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“I don’t think anybody expected that,” Thomas explained Monday on The MMA Hour.
“This is what I’m saying, we’ve prepared Tyron to do that in some other fights and it just didn’t work out. But when you put that pressure on Darren, I don’t think he expected that. You expect Tyron to back up and wait, wait, and wait, so we said we really need to get in his face and make Darren Till work. "We knew he cut a lot of weight, we knew he wouldn’t be able to work for five rounds the way Tyron was prepared to work for five rounds. So we said, we need to get to him early, start creating angles and not allowing him to get that left hand off.“So that’s exactly what Tyron did. He got in his face, took away the angle of the left hand, and everything worked out in our favor.”
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