When Tyson Fury walked out to face Francis Ngannou at “Battle of the Baddest” this previous October, nobody was happier about it than Saul Milton.
Milton is one half of the English digital music duo Chase & Standing and likewise a large MMA fan. So when Fury walked out to the Chase & Standing single Baddadan for his struggle with Ngannou, Milton acquired to see two of his passions collide on one of many largest phases potential. Talking on The MMA Hour, Milton defined how that every one took place and what it was like to observe.
“On that observe is one other nice artist known as Bou, a younger child from Manchester,” Milton mentioned.
“Bou known as us and mentioned, ‘Yo, pay attention, bruv, Tyson Fury would possibly stroll out to Baddadan!’ I used to be like, what the hell are you speaking about? He goes, ‘Pay attention, we’ve acquired somebody there proper now. We’ve acquired the tune, we’re going to play it for the person, see what occurs.’ I mentioned, ‘Bruv, mad! Loopy, loopy.’ Then actually minutes later, I see a clip — and it wasn’t the walkout. It was the day earlier than after they had been doing the open exercises and it was enjoying on a loop. I used to be like, what the hell is occurring right here?
“One in all his mates is down there and he gave somebody on Tyson’s crew the track. Then we acquired a message from one other well-known DJ within the U.Ok. known as Majestic. He was like, ‘Bruv, what do you say about Baddadan for Tyson?’ I am going, ‘Oh, is it you?’ ‘Yeah, I’m Tyson’s DJ. I play all of his music.’ I am going, ‘Superb! Thanks a lot, man!’ ‘No, I liked it. It’s Battle of the Baddest, it makes a lot sense!’
“So I mentioned, ‘What do you say to enjoying it for his walkout?’ He mentioned, ‘Bruv, walkout was sorted ages in the past. He’s acquired a three-tiered [walkout song].’ ‘Ah, say no extra. All good.’ Then the identical day he mentioned, ‘Change of plans. Are you able to get me a dub of it?’ I used to be like, ‘No drawback.’ … It was wonderful.”
Chase & Standing are a extremely profitable group, with a number of albums topping the U.Ok. Dance charts, together with their multi-platinum file No Extra Idols. They’ve additionally been nominated for quite a lot of music awards, most lately taking house Producer of the 12 months within the 2024 Brit Awards.
On high of his music acumen, Milton’s MMA fandom runs deep, stating that he has not missed an English UFC card in years. Furthermore, Chase & Standing present walkout songs for quite a lot of fighters, together with Brendan Loughnane and Veronica Hardy, amongst others. Provided that, his allegiance was a bit bit torn heading into the Fury-Ngannou matchup, however ultimately, issues couldn’t have labored out higher for Milton, as Fury gained the struggle however Ngannou exceeded expectations and even dropped Fury within the third spherical.
“Each elements of me had been happy,” Milton mentioned. “As a result of clearly the dialog away from the struggle is how properly Francis did, shocked the world regardless when he floored Tyson. I feel truthfully, I feel when Tyson acquired that first clump from Francis he thought, ‘F*cking hell, I’ve not been hit like this shortly. Or possibly ever.’ The identical means when Francis acquired clumped by Anthony immediately, he was like, ‘Goodbye.’ He was gone. By no means felt that earlier than. I feel possibly Tyson wasn’t too aware of how laborious Francis really hits.
“So he carried out above and past expectations. In order that was nice for an MMA fan. After which the man who walked out to our observe, who we’re additionally huge followers of for a few years as properly, gained. So each my conflicting sides acquired my appeasement.”
