When I look back now, the 26-year-old me would absolutely kill the 21-year-old me.
I'm in a stronger place now, mentally and physically. And I sorted my head out and started to speak to people. “I got rid of all the 'yes' men in my life that were bringing me down, getting me out partying all the time and stuff like that. “Obviously, I got out of that dark phase in the next few months with the good people around me - my fiancée, my family, my gym family and my close friends,” he said. After that fight, I was sitting there and I was crying for an hour and just thinking to myself that I ruined my life, that I should've went to the UFC, and it's not gonna happen now.”įor someone so outwardly positive, giddy almost, it’s surprising to hear, but the fighting blood runs deep in Pimblett, and he slowly, but surely, worked his way back to being the old “Paddy the Baddy” again, complete with some needed changes. Every morning after that fight, I'd wake up, my missus would get up and give me a kiss and go to work and when she'd go to work, nine times out of ten, usually before that fight, I'd roll over and go back to sleep. “I thought that life was never gonna get better, to be honest. “When I lost that fight, I had a bit of mental health problems and I got very depressed,” Pimblett admits.
He was devastated, assuming that he blew his UFC shot once and for all. Soren Bak had other plans, winning a five-round unanimous decision and sending Pimblett crashing down to Earth. “For me, it was always a question of when I'd get signed, not if.” So he waited, fully confident that he would beat Bak, pick up another CW belt, this one at lightweight, and then invade the UFC.
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