Paddy Pimblett isn’t altering his post-fight stripes following the largest win of his profession.
Pimblett battered and completed Michael Chandler within the third spherical of a five-round co-main occasion of UFC 314 earlier this month to enhance 7-0 contained in the octagon.
“The Baddy” has a repute for placing on some further weight after his bouts, and the aftermath of his win over Chandler is not any totally different, revealing to UFC octagon announcer Bruce Buffer a weight achieve of over 40 kilos.
“[The next day] I had about 5 milkshakes after the combat, actually,” Pimblett mentioned on It’s Time. “This morning I wakened [at] like 198 [pounds], which is fats.
“That’s in regards to the heaviest I get. I don’t actually contact 200 — provided that I’m within the States. That meals simply makes me right into a machine. I’m simply huge within the States, however once I’m again within the U.Ok., the very best I’ll attain is like 195, one thing like that.”
Following the win, Pimblett known as for a combat with former champion Charles Oliveira as he goals to combat for the light-weight title someday in 2026.
“I do, I wish to be a world champion,” Pimblett mentioned on the UFC 314 post-fight press conference. “I’ve at all times mentioned I’m going to be a world champion, and beating a former champion like Charles Oliveira — who had two title defenses — he will get known as the very best submission artist the UFC’s ever seen.
“So I’d like to go up towards that as a result of I believe I’ve bought higher submissions than Charles Oliveira.”
