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Paddy Pimblett is carving out a reputation for taking his licks and doubling up on the return. Pimblett scored a first-round submission win over Rodrigo ...

Buoyed by the raucous support of his fellow Englishmen, Pimblett locked in a rear-naked choke. Pimblett, a former Cage Warriors champion, improved to 2-0 in the Octagon and extended his active winning streak to four. Paddy Pimblett is carving out a reputation for taking his licks and doubling up on the return.

Aspinall needed less than one round to tap out heavyweight contender Alexander Volkov in the Fight Night main event, in what was his first contest under Dana ...

This could be as electric - perhaps as abrupt - as some of the other fights on the card. Arnold Allen and Dan Hooker will be the next duo to make that walk to the Octagon. "Not as clean a win as I'd like, maybe a 5 or 6 out of 10 - he got me with a good punch but a nice punch wakes me up in the morning!" And though his initial flurry is cooled off by Hooker, a pair of head kicks set up another Allen-dominated flurry and the referee steps in at the right time. The main card begins as explosively as much of the prelims were - Topuria weathers some great Round 1 offense from Herbert - including a flush head kick - before turning his lights clean out with a vicious right early in the second. And to cap off a night of blistering quick finishes, the Brit spends a few minutes slickly rotating through his fists, his feet and some choice takedowns before finding the armbar and getting Volkov to tap in relatively short order! Aspinall is next It's been a breathless card so far, and all that remains is the main event.

As UFC returns to London, Paddy Pimblett and Molly McCann talk wrong-un Tory biscuits, Chattin' Pony and why there is no one like them in the game.

Meatball Molly looks up, her eyes shining as she thinks of herself and Paddy the Baddy. “We owe it all to this place and, on Saturday, we’ll light up the O. Paddy and me will show it’s not all talk or bravado or arrogance. It got me to where I’m going – to where Patrick and I are going.” I was thinking this was a good fight to show what scousers are made of because every step I’ve taken in life, every positive thing I’ve accomplished, I attribute to this city. “There had never been a female champ like me in Cage Warriors,” she says of the organisation where she made her name. Pimblett adds: “It’s going to be a scouse invasion of London and the only thing I can compare to it is when Conor McGregor fought in Dublin. But it’ll be louder than that. Thank you for representing the city so well.’ It meant so much because he understood lots of people will submit and tap out – but not me or my city.” “The reason I called it Chattin’ Pony is because, in Liverpool, it means you’re chatting a bit of shit. The documentary opens with her first UFC fight, in Liverpool in May 2018, and captures her devastation after she blacked out during a choking headlock. “I hate the establishment,” he says, “the royal family and the Tories.” He also talks about the contract – “worth well over a million pounds” – he has signed with the American company Barstool Sports and the vlogger from Philadelphia who has moved to Liverpool to follow him and post daily content online. Last September, in Las Vegas, the UFC was given its first taste of the Paddy and Molly Show as Pimblett made his debut and McCann entered the last fight on her contract. After she shows me her tattoo – “My city, my people, my heart” – in tribute to Liverpool, McCann says: “You’ll never meet another Patrick Pimblett or Molly McCann. I don’t know if it’s because I’m a girl and he’s a boy, but we push each other to be better versions of ourselves and don’t envy each other’s success. The two of us are totally mad characters but we come from the best and hardest city in the world.”

Australian UFC heavyweight Tai Tuivasa is famous for two things: going to war in the octagon, and drinking beer afterwards.

Then the Brit called out Tuivasa, saying: “First thing, someone buy me a beer. “I don’t watch fighting. Tuivasa currently sits third.

The Saturday UFC Fight Night card in London was a proving ground filled with early finishes for fighters from the U.K..

The United Kingdom has some excellent prospects in the UFC and beyond. The UFC bantamweight division is unbelievably stacked at the top, and deep too. Shore, who is from Wales, didn't get the main event or even main card billing Saturday at UFC London, but boy did he put forth one heck of a performance. At one point in the night, a replay of the event was being shown on the screens, and McCann's fight came on. But after getting tuned up for the majority of the first five minutes, something clicked in Topuria in the second round. After the victory, unsurprisingly, he called out Pimblett. Topuria, who was born in Germany and lives and trains in Spain, is probably still best suited for featherweight. Featherweight is the baddest division in the UFC right now. Topuria in a battle of prospects who can't stand each other? In my opinion, Petr Yan is in the running for the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world. Saturday wasn't the first fight Topuria took part in this week. LONDON -- After his submission victory in the main event of the UFC Fight Night card Saturday, Tom Aspinall told me he was pacing himself against Alexander Volkov, because of the massive respect he has for Volkov's durability. Most of White's post-show news conference Saturday praised the English MMA scene and promised a return soon.

UK fighters put British MMA on the map at a violently fantastic UFC London ; Tom Aspinall. English mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter ; Arnold Allen. English mixed ...

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