Paddy Pimblett timelines UFC return: “I’ll be lucky to … ”

Paddy Pimblett won’t return to action in a while. Photo via YouTube

UFC lightweight star Paddy ”The Baddy” Pimblett’s return to the octagon may take longer than expected.

The Liverpudlian suffered an ankle injury when he scored unanimous scorecards of 29-28 over Jared Gordon at UFC 282.

Pimblett hoped for a quick return, but is now unsure of the timeline for his comeback fight.

“I’ll be lucky to fight this year,” he recently told Sky Sports.

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Paddy Pimblett: ”It was a lot worse than we thought”

Talking to Sky Sports, the ”Baddy” detailed his difficult recovery from the ankle injury,

“I’m about to get surgery after my last fight. I hurt my foot in the first round, in like the first minute or two, threw a kick, hurt it. I felt it, but obviously, we crack on, we get through the fight,” Pimblett said.

“At the end of the fight, I can remember going back to the medical room just saying my foot is sore. Couldn’t get it looked at properly until I got home. Then, when the actual swelling went down – I didn’t know when to get surgery – it was a lot worse than we thought. I had to get inner and outer ligament surgery – well, reconstruction. So it’s big.”

Paddy Pimblett made his UFC debut in September 2021 and has four straight wins in the promotion, three coming via stoppage.

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