I always said, from when I was a kid, I was going to be a UFC world champion,” he said.
“I literally said it, since I first walked in the gym, was like, ‘I can do this.’ And then when I won my first amateur fight when I was 16, when I got my hand raised it was like, ‘There’s no feeling like this. This is going to be what I do for the rest of my life.’ And I was right.”
To win the title with the same team, and the same coach, he started his journey with would make victory on Saturday night even more special for Pimblett. He’s also determined to prove his doubters wrong, and his supporters right.
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“I started training when I was 15 and now I’m 31. So, for half my life, I’ve been in the gym every day, putting the work in,” he explained.
“This is just going to be validation for all the years of training and all the years of saying I am going to be a world champion.
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