vomiting during his post-fight interview,<\/a> and on Wednesday, during a Fight Camp vlog discussing his weight cut for UFC 329, Pimblett discussed his worst weight-cutting mistakes and explained what happened in that now infamous clip.<\/p>\n\u201cThe worst mistake I ever made when refueling, when I fought [Rodrigo] Vargas [at UFC London in 2022], I hadn\u2019t even drank any water yet \u2014 well, I drank a little bit of water, but in the fighter hotel I went straight downstairs and got a full English [breakfast],\u201d Pimblett said. \u201cI was sitting there eating the full English, I\u2019d only drank about a liter of water, and Paul Reed came over, \u2018What the f*ck are you doing?!\u2019 I was just sitting there like, \u2018Just having a full English.\u2019 And he was like, \u2018What are you doing, you f*cking idiot?\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I was a proper kid, I remember weighing in and going to me bag and pulling a bottle of chocolate milk out, and Paul saying, \u2018What the f*ck are you doing?\u2019 \u2018Oh, it\u2019s good to hydrate.\u2019 \u2018Yeah, in like 12 hours, you f*cking idiot.\u2019 So I had to drink loads of water first, and he took it out of me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I spewed in the cage [after fighting Erosa], it wasn\u2019t because of the refuel, it was just because of being an idiot before I went to the venue. Before I went to the venue, I went to Starbucks or Costco \u2026 I got a hot chocolate, and we went to Tesco, and I got a pack of Ferrero Rocher, and I ate them on the way to the venue, after doing an 8-kilo water cut, one of the biggest cuts I\u2019ve ever done. It didn\u2019t go well with me body at the time. It was a bad idea, but that was me, stupid kid, didn\u2019t listen to anyone. I was only 21 at the time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Now a 31-year-old man with children of his own, Pimblett is much better prepared and more professional about his career.<\/p>\n
Since moving to the UFC and up to the lightweight division, Pimblett has never failed to make weight, and as he prepares to take on Benoit Saint Denis in the co-main event of UFC 329 next weekend, \u201cThe Baddy\u201d is locked in.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t miss weight. We make weight healthily,\u201d Pimblett said. \u201cThat\u2019s exactly what I\u2019m going to do next week. I might end up even having less weight to cut from when I fought Justin Gaethje, and you saw with that one, I weighed in underweight.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis time I haven\u2019t got to make 155, it\u2019s 156. You never know, I might only end up cutting 10 pounds, and then I\u2019ll be getting back in the cage at 185. A proper lightweight.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paddy Pimblett is one of the biggest stars in MMA, but one of his most famous moments is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":774488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,85,787,1396],"class_list":["post-774487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}