Paddy Pimblett isn’t altering his post-fight stripes following the most important 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 fame for placing on some further weight after his bouts, and the aftermath of his win over Chandler isn’t any completely different, revealing to UFC octagon announcer Bruce Buffer a weight acquire of over 40 kilos.
“[The next day] I had about 5 milkshakes after the struggle, actually,” Pimblett stated on It’s Time. “This morning I wakened [at] like 198 [pounds], which is fats.
“That’s concerning 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 after I’m again within the U.Okay., the best I’ll attain is like 195, one thing like that.”
Following the win, Pimblett known as for a struggle with former champion Charles Oliveira as he goals to struggle for the light-weight title someday in 2026.
“I do, I need to be a world champion,” Pimblett stated on the UFC 314 post-fight press convention. “I’ve all the time stated 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 in opposition to that as a result of I believe I’ve acquired higher submissions than Charles Oliveira.”
