The two previously traded words last year, around the time of Colby Covington’s loss to Leon Edwards. While Paddy Pimblett is aware that the American is playing the bad guy as a gimmick, that doesn’t make him a fan. Instead, ‘The Baddy’ finds it embarrassing that Covington is using
WWE-style trash-talk to try and appeal to fans.
“Yeah, if they got on me now and said do you want to fight Conor McGregor in December. Of course I’d say yes, I’m not f***** stupid.” Paddy Pimblett stated to
OLGB. “Or Colby as well, because I think he’s a p***k. He is so fake. Every UFC staff I’ve spoken to says he’s such a nice person. I’m like, but why is he a bellend then? So like he’s a proper nice person behind the camera – and then it’s like, well, he’s just a knobhead then because he is fake [in front of the camera] I don’t like that lad, I used to watch wrestling when I was a kid, but [his behaviour] that’s proper wrestling. Nah, I’m not into it.”
He continued, “I just said to my manager, ‘Listen, if you want me to fight in Vegas before the end of the year – that card has been announced now – but if I was fighting on that card I needed a ten week notice, I needed to know. But obviously I think the UFC wanted to see what was going to happen with Moicano and he ended up being injured, so nothing ended up coming of it. But I said to my manager, ‘If I don’t know within like 10 weeks, I’m not having another fight camp without making weight, so I’ll fight at the weight above so I’ll fight Colby or I’ll fight Conor. If they want me to fight either of them.”
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