In the past, UFC lightweight Paddy Pimblett has been accused of ballooning up between fights and has even been dubbed “fatty Paddy” by fans.
It seems that time may be gone.
“I’m hoping to have another three fights in the bag, another three wins by the end of next year and be ranked,” Pimblett said in an interview with SLOTHBOXX. “But as I say, we’ll see what happens. People keep asking me, ‘Are you fighting?’ because I’m not that fat at the minute. They say, ‘You must have a fight coming up, you lad, because you’re normally well fatter than this.’ I’m like, ‘Nah, lad. I’m just not that fat at the minute.’ People keep saying to me, ‘Lad, you’re not that heavy. You must have a fight coming up.’ I haven’t. As I’ve said before, I’ve got an eating disorder when I’m fighting, when I’m cutting weight and dieting.”
Pimblett even described his previous weight gain as a disorder.
“After a fight, I’ve got a bad eating disorder. At the minute, I’m not too bad because obviously I had surgery. I went to America and got fat again, then came back and had surgery. And after the surgery, my weight has just gradually come down. Now I’m just walking around at about (185 pounds) and not really watching what I’m eating. I’m just hobbling around at that weight, which is nice. I’ve plateaued around this weight. Hopefully I’ll never go above (200 pounds) again.”
When Pimblett is in the bigger body, he’s been heavily criticized, to which he simply says, “It goes in one ear and out the other – they can all f*ck off.”
Pimblett admitted that after fights he was eating 8,000 calories a day, which he’s cut back on.
“After every fight, I’ve just ballooned up and started eating 8,000 calories a day. Now I probably won’t do that. It’s mad that people keep asking me, ‘Who are you fighting and who do you want when you come back?’ I don’t know. I’m not going to be back for like six months, and as you know the amount of change that can happen in six months in fighting, it’s ridiculous.”
At the moment Pimblett is recovering from surgery and expected late this year or early next.
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