Paddy Pimblett had a lot to say after crossing paths with Colby Covington.
Late final 12 months, Covington had suggested Pimblett towards a possible transfer as much as the welterweight division, suggesting that he’d beat the Liverpudlian from “pillar to post” and ship one of many “worst beatings” ever seen contained in the Octagon.
“He’d never fight again. It’d be the last fight that he’d ever have in the Octagon,” Covington mentioned in an interview with Submission Radio. “I would beat him silly from pillar to post. I’d beat him so bad it’d be one of the worst beatings in UFC history. I don’t think the Athletic Commission would be able to sanction a fight for him ever again. After the damage I would do to Paddy Pimblett. The guy’s an absolute joke.”
Months later, each Pimblett and Covington have been in attendance at a Energy Slap occasion in Las Vegas forward of UFC 313. In keeping with ‘The Baddy,’ Covington prevented contact with him the whole time as an alternative of conserving the identical power he introduced in prior interviews.
“We ended up going to Power Slap Friday night…walked past Colby Covington, he stared at the floor,” Pimblett mentioned in a video on his YouTube channel. “Talks a big game online, sh*ts his undies in person.”
Paddy Pimblett has larger fish to fry than colby covington
Having misplaced 4 of his final six, together with back-to-back losses towards Leon Edwards and Joaquin Buckley, Covington has turn out to be the poster little one for irrelevance within the UFC. In the meantime, Pimblett is a number of quick weeks away from the largest combat of his profession.
Emanating from the Kaseya Heart in Miami, Florida on April 12, Pimblett will step into the co-main occasion highlight for a five-round conflict with former Bellator champion ‘Iron’ Michael Chandler at UFC 314.
Pimblett goes into the bout driving an eight-fight win streak relationship again to March 2020. That streak features a unanimous determination W over Tony Ferguson and most lately, a first-round submission victory towards King Inexperienced at UFC 304 in Manchester.
