UFC welterweight Matt Brown is thoroughly unimpressed by rising star Paddy “The Baddy” Pimblett. Brown, in a recent episode of The Fighter vs The Writer, declared that Pimblett would get “molly-whopped” if he moved into the UFC lightweight top fifteen.
“So many things in his game are so far behind that he almost has to go back to the drawing board and start from scratch, and go back to Cage Warriors and try again almost.
Matt Brown: “Amateur” Paddy The Baddy Can’t Compete With Ranked Lightweights
Because he’s in the snake pit now — if they move him up. I don’t think they’re going to move him up. I think after that performance, he’s going to stay down fighting in the 20 to 30 [ranked] guys, maybe even lower than that. He’s going to have a very hard time.”
Brown continued, calling Pimblett an “amateur” fighter. “He’s a professional social media guy, his hobby is fighting. What else would he say? He doesn’t have a real answer for it. Of course he’s going to go ahead and go with the narrative that he won. If he admits defeat, it makes him look worse. It makes us sit here and talk about it more. That’s all he really wants. He wants more clicks, he wants more views. He’s a social media professional. He’s an amateur fighter.
What I’m getting at, I wouldn’t expect him to say anything different publicly. The only way he’s going to improve is if he goes back and does some soul searching in his room by himself, not on social media, not on YouTube. Not on whatever TikTok f****** s*** he’s famous on. He searches deep within himself and makes some changes. He’s going to have to decide this is what he wants. He’s going to have to say, ‘Do I want to be a social media superstar or do I want to be a fighter?’”
Brown claimed that he simply does not get the hype.“I don’t know why people like this guy. I don’t get it. Maybe I’m a f****** old grump. Maybe I’m an old man. Maybe I’m a boomer. Call me what you want but I don’t get the personality hype that everyone likes about him. But people do, so good for him. He’s going to have to capitalize on that the best he can. That’s what it seems like he’s doing. But he’s not going to do it based on his performances in the octagon.
They’re probably going to move him down, in my opinion. That’s the move if you’re trying to keep Paddy alive and keep utilizing his hype for the UFC machine. If you move him up, he’s going to get f****** molly-whopped.”
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