The noise made it sound as though he had taken me out with that hit, but as I said, I’ve taken bigger punches than that. “When I watched it back after the fight, it sounded really great. I’ve taken bigger shots than that before,” Pimblett said. A lot of people are going on about that punch. “There were some who thought I could have lost, but I knew what exactly was happening. He shut down the idea of being rocked by this punch, saying that he had been hit by harder shots in the past, but understood that the shot sounded loud. Speaking on the MMA Hour, Paddy the Baddy denied that things were as serious as some made it out to be. He lived up to expectations too, with his first round TKO over Luigi Vandramini, but not without struggle as he got hit with a hard punch that seemed to have him rocked. Pimblett had one of the most highly anticipated debuts in a long time, after a strong run in Cage Warriors. However he says that he was not anywhere near being hurt as bad as some people thought. UFC Lightweight Paddy Pimblett to Undergo Ankle Surgery in March An injury suffered in his last bout will delay Paddy Pimblett ’s UFC return. A light heavyweight bout between Paul Craig and former title challenger Alexander Gustafsson is also scheduled for the card.While Paddy Pimblett got the first round stoppage in his UFC debut, things appeared to be a bit dicey before that. UFC London is expected to be headlined by a middleweight top contender’s bout between Derek Brunson and Darren Till. The 25-year-old out of the Constrictor Team is 1-2 in the Octagon to date, having made an unsuccessful debut against Elizeu Zaleski in 2018 and followed that up with a 2020 win over Jessin Ayari. Vendramini enters the bout fresh off a majority decision loss to Fares Ziam at UFC 263: Adesanya vs. The Fight Night card will be the UFC’s first trip overseas to anywhere other than Fight Island since Kevin Lee fought Charles Oliveira in the main event of UFC Brasilia in March of 2020. MMA Junkie reports that Pimblett will face Brazilian fighter Luigi Vendramini on September 4th in London, England. This time the 26-year-old out of Liverpool didn’t turn them away. Cage Warriors was better cash, so I would have been stupid to say no.”Īnd while the years that followed that first UFC offer didn’t see quite the same level of continuous success, with Pimblett losing title fights to Nad Narimani and Soren Bak, after victories over Decky Dalton and Davide Martinez, the world’s largest MMA promotion came calling again. The card was supposed to take place in London but was moved stateside because of the Covid-19 pandemic. “I had a meal with (Cage Warriors owner) Graham Boylan in London after I won the title, and there were a few offers, but we just picked the one that was best for us in the now. In his UFC debut last September, Pimblett knocked out Luigi Vendramini in Las Vegas. “I’ll be honest, the UFC came in with an offer after I won the belt, but I would have been an idiot to refuse the offer Cage Warriors gave me,” Pimblett told MMAjunkie back in 2018, adding that he made three times as much in his last trip to the CWFC cage as teammate Molly McCann got for her last UFC bout. That early success from Pimblett was even enough to catch the eyes of UFC matchmakers at the time, but Pimblett passed on an early offer from the promotion when CWFC made him an offer too good to refuse. Over the first four years of his MMA career he ran out to a stellar 12-1 record, capturing the CWFC featherweight title in the process and picking up wins over veteran talents like Ashleigh Grimshaw and Julian Erosa. Pimblett had just made his UFC debut and managed to earn a KO victory over Luigi Vendramini, when White announced that the UFC was. The ‘Baddy’ first appeared on the UK MMA scene back in 2012, at the young age of 17. Yes, Paddy Pimblett has earned a second entry into our list. Anyone who has followed the UK MMA scene for longer than a minute has almost certainly heard of Paddy Pimblett.
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