Is Paddy Pimblett undefeated? No, he is not, but we wouldn’t blame you for being confused given some of the promotion we’re seeing for his interim title fight against Justin Gaethje at UFC 324.
A promo for Pimblett played during CBS football games straight up claimed “The Baddy” was undefeated, despite his record actually being 23-3. Newer ads for UFC 324 were at least technically correct but still baffling: they said Paddy was ‘undefeated in UFC,’ which is something commentators might bring up on
the broadcast but has never been considered a legit selling point on promotional material until now.
As for Paddy Pimblett, he recently discussed his losses with BBC Sport and said he would probably be undefeated across the board if the guys he lost to hadn’t cheated.
“When you lose, at the time, it’s disgusting,” Pimblett said. “It’s even worse for me looking back now because the first fight I lost, I was only 18. I fought someone a lot older than me, and he only caught me in a submission because he grabbed the cage.”
“The two losses that I’ve got in title fights, both of them — I went into one sick, one I went into injured, and both of the opponents are on steroids. So, I could be 26-0, really, if I weren’t fighting cheating bastards.”
“The Soren Bak one was harder to come back from because I had him in a fully cinched up rear naked choke in the first round,” Pimblett recalled. “But because I went into the fight injured, me wrist was still broke. I couldn’t get the proper squeeze on it. Like, I should have finished that fight. Should have won that fight.”
But Paddy isn’t dwelling on those defeats and the hard times that came with them any more.
“It is the way it is, and it shaped me. It made me who I am,” he said. “Without them, I probably wouldn’t be in this position that I’m in now.”
That position, of course, is undefeated in the UFC and on the verge of winning a title. Can he get past Justin Gaethje at UFC 324? Let’s hope he’s not injured, or Gaethje doesn’t cheat.
