MMAJunkie<\/a>). \u201cThen he walked towards me. I said, \u2018What\u2019s happening, lad?\u2019 And as he got close to me, he swiped a slap at me, and obviously if you raise your hands at me, I\u2019m going to do something. I wasn\u2019t punching him because I\u2019m not breaking my hand and then not be able to fight and not get my money on the weekend.<\/p>\n“So I stepped back, and I picked the hand sanitizer and bounced it off his head. And then he swung a big one, and I moved out of the way with ease. He\u2019s got a little bit of small man syndrome,” Pimblett continued. “He\u2019s only (5-foot-7), so I just tried to leave the little man to it. He wanted to come at me and act all that, and he got put in his place. I stood there on my own and there was about six of them, and he done nothing. If he wanted to do something, he would\u2019ve come around the table and try and have a fight with me, but he didn\u2019t. He stood on the other side of the table because he knows what\u2019s good for him.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Although Paddy Pimblett didn’t know the reason as to why Ilia Topuria went at him, the Georgian has a different story. For him, he saw Pimblett trash talk his country of Georgia on social media which he believes crossed the line as he has had family members die in the war to Russia which Pimblett made fun of.<\/p>\n
“I read something I think like, \u2018Now I know why Russia bombed Georgia,” Topuria said to MMAJunkie. “You guys are a bunch of idiots.\u2019 So my reaction to someone taking this like a joke when in that war many innocent people died \u2013 we\u2019re talking about children and people who had nothing to do with that. So for someone to laugh at that, and it\u2019s also a painful subject for me because family members of mine died in that war and many countrymen of mine.<\/p>\n
“So it\u2019s not something that pleases me and from there everything started. And what can I say about someone who pokes fun at that? He\u2019s an idiot and immature. If he thinks I\u2019m going to take a step back when I see him, then he\u2019s badly mistaken. He needs to pray that we don\u2019t cross paths because I\u2019ll go crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Paddy Pimblett and Ilia Topuria have different reasons as to why they had a skirmish yesterday in London. On Tuesday at check-in day, Pimblett threw a hand sanitizer bottle at the head of Topuria, and punches were thrown. No one really knew why it happened but according to ‘The Baddy’ he said Topuria was the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54463,"featured_media":403964,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[83206,39610,20218],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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