{"id":403461,"date":"2022-01-13T05:46:18","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T13:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=403461"},"modified":"2022-01-13T05:46:18","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T13:46:18","slug":"paddy-pimblett-explains-why-he-would-choose-anfield-main-event-over-a-ufc-title-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/paddy-pimblett-explains-why-he-would-choose-anfield-main-event-over-a-ufc-title-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Paddy Pimblett explains why he would choose Anfield main event over a UFC title win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC lightweight Paddy Pimblett has explained the importance of his desire to fight at Anfield Stadium one day.<\/p>\n<p>Last September, Paddy Pimblett <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/paddy-pimblett-unloads-on-diego-sanchez-for-calling-him-a-clown-youre-the-laughing-stock-of-this-whole-sport\/\">announced himself<\/a> to the UFC audience in style with an emphatic knockout win over Luigi Vendramini. He had to face some adversity but ultimately, &#8220;The Baddy&#8221; got the job done with the kind of ruthless efficiency that&#8217;s going to make him such a dangerous foe for so many at 155 pounds.<\/p>\n<p>Alas, Pimblett has ambitions that exceed even winning the title &#8211; as he noted during a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HzqgWPTbJxw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent interview<\/a> with ESPN.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Paddy Pimblett has big expectations for 2022 in UFC | ESPN MMA\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HzqgWPTbJxw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI\u2019ll be honest with you, that\u2019s [Anfield] not gonna be until like 2024, 2025. It\u2019s not. I\u2019m gonna win three fights in 2022, and then I can start demanding it when I\u2019m 4-0 in the UFC and working towards a ranking. That\u2019s when I can start saying it. But they\u2019re not gonna give me it until I\u2019m in like the top 10, or if it\u2019s a number one contender fight, something like that, I know they\u2019re not. It\u2019s gonna be like 70,000 people, lad &#8211; 80,000 people. It\u2019s gonna be sick. But that\u2019s happening, I\u2019ve said it. People were asking me on my Twitch last night, people kept saying it\u2019s gonna be like a UFC Liverpool in London [in March], why don\u2019t they just do it in the Echo Arena? I\u2019m like, because it\u2019s too small. I filled the Echo Arena out on my own for Cage Warriors, nevermind with the UFC name attached to it and other high profile fighters fighting on it like Till, Molly and Aspinall.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Brett Okamoto proceeded to ask Pimblett whether he\u2019d rather be a UFC champion or headline a UFC card at Anfield before he retires.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI\u2019d probably pick Anfield. That\u2019s for my people, do you know what I mean? That would be my people there watching me. Obviously I\u201dm in this sport to become a UFC world champion, I\u2019m in it for the legacy and what I leave behind. But, I think I\u2019d leave a better legacy in my city if I headlined at Anfield for one fight rather than winning a title abroad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Will we see Paddy Pimblett headline a UFC card at Anfield? Let us know your thoughts down in the comments, BJPENN Nation!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC lightweight Paddy Pimblett has explained the importance of his desire to fight at Anfield Stadium one day. Last September, Paddy Pimblett announced himself to the UFC audience in style with an emphatic knockout win over Luigi Vendramini. He had to face some adversity but ultimately, &#8220;The Baddy&#8221; got the job done with the kind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54478,"featured_media":393833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[83206,39610],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Paddy Pimblett explains importance of Anfield main event<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"UFC lightweight Paddy Pimblett has explained the importance of his desire to fight at Anfield Stadium one day.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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