Paddy Pimblett Doesn’t Like Being Compared to Conor McGregor

Paddy Pimblett spoke with MMAjunkie ahead of his fight with Nad Narimani this weekend at Cage Warriors 82. Some highlights are below:

on people who compare him to Conor McGregor: “I don’t like them comparisons. I’m sick of getting told I’m like Conor McGregor. I’m nothing like him. Nothing at all. We’re completely different people. He’s obsessed with money. I’m not. I’m obsessed with being pound-for-pound best in the world. He wants to go fight Floyd Mayweather – well, make it sound like he’s going to fight Floyd Mayweather. Forget about him. We’re talking about me.”

On his fight with Narimani: “He is dangerous – very dangerous. He can finish a fight anywhere, as he’s proved. I still don’t believe he can finish me, anyway. I see myself getting my arm raised, no matter how the fight finishes.”

On his unanimous decision win over Julian Eroas last September: “It was more competitive than what everyone was used to for one of my fights. So everyone starting chatting all madness, didn’t they? Everyone started going off on one. But I knew I won those first three rounds, at least. At the end of the fight, I thought I won four rounds to one. I though he had probably done enough in the fifth to take the round off me. Like they say, you’ve got to win the rounds off the champion, and when I watched it back, I thought, ‘Yeah, I won the first three easily.’ Seriously, I just didn’t understand what everyone was going on about. People just want to hate on you, don’t they? People just want to jump on you.”

On his naysayers: “I’m always going to get hate because I’m not one of them that will just sit back and not say what I think. I’m quite outspoken, and I’ll just say what I think, so a lot of people are going to say something when I do something wrong or something even questionable happens. But that won’t happen this time. It’s going to be me getting my arm raised, getting the finish within three rounds. My haters can all eat (expletive). Everyone who loves me, I love them, as well.”