{"id":263255,"date":"2025-11-05T11:55:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T11:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/263255\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T11:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T11:55:08","slug":"paddy-pimblett-names-best-attribute-as-fans-get-glimpse-into-future-mma-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/263255\/","title":{"rendered":"Paddy Pimblett names best attribute as fans get glimpse into future – MMA – Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paddy Pimblett is banking on his self-assuredness to triumph over Ilia Topuria<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The fighter has reportedly signed his contract for a January showdown with the UFC<\/a> lightweight champion and is now waiting for his opponent to do the same. In a chat with boxing<\/a> star Anthony Joshua<\/a>, the Liverpool native expressed his unwavering belief in his own capabilities.<\/p>\n

“Yeah, that [confidence] is bred into me, I don’t know what it is, I am just 100 percent confident about everything all the time,” he said.<\/p>\n

“I’m the opposite to a pessimist. I think Liverpool are going win everything. I think all my teammates are going to win every fight they ever have. I think I’m going to beat every single person that gets put in front of me, and it’s just built into me. My coach says it – Paul – he says ‘Your biggest attribute, your biggest weapon is your confidence.’<\/p>\n

“It’s mad because I’m not confident in any other walk of life. When I first met my wife and we were younger, she had to kiss me! I didn’t kiss her! But I know that I was born to do this, just like you were born to box.<\/p>\n

“It’s just into me. I have a saying, ‘What’s the point of being nervous when you know you’re going to win?’ When people say ‘How are you not nervous?’ I’m like, ‘Nah I don’t get nervous, what’s nerves?’<\/p>\n

“For me, my mentality in general, I just don’t think I can lose.”<\/p>\n

Pimblett also opened up about his biggest challenge – his battle with his mental health. Pimblett has been outspoken about the subject, having lost a close friend to suicide.<\/p>\n

And he recently teamed up with the UFC to launch a new venture to improve mental health through MMA.<\/p>\n

“[My biggest challenge is] definitely depression,” he added. “The mental health side of things, injuries cause them [and then you get] worse mental health, you know what I mean? When you get injured and you lose a fight because of it, or you can’t train.<\/p>\n

“I had to sit out for 18 months at one point because I got an injury, and my mental health at that point hit rock bottom. I had to go and see counsellors and stuff to get through it, so that’s probably a side to the sport that people don’t see.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paddy Pimblett is banking on his self-assuredness to triumph over Ilia Topuria. The fighter has reportedly signed his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,19846,641,393,638,11571,15502,82,640],"class_list":{"0":"post-263255","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-confidence","11":"tag-fighting","12":"tag-mental-health","13":"tag-mma","14":"tag-mma-section","15":"tag-paddy-pimblett","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-ufc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}