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Paddy Pimblett took a interruption for grooming for this month's immense UFC combat against Michael Chandler to sojourn his beloved Liverpool arsenic they faced Everton successful the Merseyside derby.
Scouser Pimblett faces the biggest combat of his vocation connected April 12 erstwhile helium takes connected erstwhile UFC lightweight rubric challenger Chandler successful a monolithic five-round co-main lawsuit clash astatine UFC 314 successful Miami.
The 30-year-old, who is looking to widen his UFC winning tally to seven, has been putting himself done a pugnacious combat campy arsenic helium aims to secure a UFC rubric changeable with triumph over Chandler.
'The program is to bushed Michael Chandler, past combat again successful Abu Dhabi successful October,' the erstwhile Cage Warriors combatant told TNT Sports.
'Hopefully I get to combat idiosyncratic successful the apical four, apical five, and past I tin inquire for a rubric changeable successful 2026.'
But helium allowed himself the dainty of a sojourn to Anfield wherever helium was presented with a peculiar personalised garment by the nine bearing his nickname 'Paddy the Baddy' and numbered 314.
Paddy Pimblett shows disconnected a personalised garment connected his sojourn to Anfield for the Merseyside derby
The unbeaten Scouser is aiming to person a changeable astatine the UFC lightweight rubric adjacent year
Pimblett volition instrumentality on Michael Chandler successful UFC 314 connected April 12 successful the biggest combat of his career
Pimblett — worthy an estimated £4million — is specified a large instrumentality of Liverpool that revealed earlier this twelvemonth that helium would commercialized his full vocation to play for the Reds.
Speaking to the Blood Red: Liverpool FC podcast astir the imaginable of section lad Trent Alexander Arnold leaving Anfield for Real Madrid, Pimblett said: 'I deliberation Trent has already gone. He's already packed his bag, lad. He's disconnected to Spain, truthful fto him go.
'I don't recognize it. The champion squad we've ever had, the champion play we've ever had. We're going to triumph trophies. I'd commercialized my vocation time to beryllium him.'
While Pimblett volition ne'er crook retired for the Premier League leaders, helium was astatine slightest afforded the honour of receiving a peculiar replica garment from the nine helium truthful adores.
Should 'The Baddy' fulfill his vocation ambition of becoming UFC champion, it's hard to accidental whether his rubric loop oregon peculiar garment volition mean much to Pimblett.
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