Miami — Paddy Pimblett was fresh off the biggest win of his career, being interviewed backstage at the Kaseya Center in Miami when former interim welterweight champ Colby Covington crashed the party.
What ensued was typical Covington— a commotion, a shouting match, no doubt in the hopes of creating enough of a stir to perhaps book a fight down the line.
Or, as Pimblett himself put it later, speaking with media outlets including Cageside Press, “Mr. Irrelevant, trying to stay relevant. The f*cking whopper.”
Scouse slang is something unique; “whopper” in this case does not mean a big lie, or even a menu item from Burger King. Rather, someone being particularly foolish or draft, according to our research (in other words, we Googled it). In any case, it’s doubtful Pimblett will be all that interested in detouring to welterweight now that he’s on the cusp of title contention at 155lbs, which he very much is after dismantling another former title challenger in Michael Chandler.
Pimblett would, however, shed light on what happened with “Chaos,” a.k.a. “Mr. Irrelevant,” backstage.
It got heated backstage between Colby Covington and Paddy Pimblett at #UFC314 👀 pic.twitter.com/4ag6DQ1uEK
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“He just come over, started to chat sh*t. Because he’d seen there was a camera. Come over and started to say ‘ah you fight scrubs.’ Like lad,” recalled Pimblett. “He said something about Chandler be 2-4 or something. Isn’t he [Covington] 2-4 in his last six? Something like that? He’s an absolute bum lad. He’s nearly 40. He’s trying to stay relevant by jumping on me while there’s a camera there. Well not jumping on me, just talking sh*t.”
The pair have crossed paths before, though without cameras present, Pimblett recalled that Covington had been far from confrontational. “I seen him at Power Slap the other week and walked past him staring at him, and he just looked at the floor like the little p*ssy boy he is. When there’s a camera there he tries to say something. But he got terrored. We absolutely terrorized him. Got told to leg it. Tried to keep shouting, got told to button his shirt up, the f*cking wool.”
Pimblett likely has bigger fish to fry now, and called for one of Justin Gaethje, Dustin Poirier, or Charles Oliveira following his win at UFC 314, though he later expanded the list to include Ilia Topuria.
