The main card for UFC 304 began with a bang and took the excitement to the next level as Paddy Pimblett defeated King Green via an impressive triangle choke within the very first round. Despite being the toughest bout of his career, Pimblett seemed to walk through Green with a lot of ease, as soon as he took the fight to the ground.

As soon as the bout began, the duo exchanged a couple of blows. And soon, Pimblett performed a successful takedown. After a bit of struggle, ‘The Baddy’ took hold of his opponent in a guillotine choke. To the Britisher’s surprise, Green slithered out, but Pimblett had decided his opponent’s destiny. Executing a triangle hold, Pimblett sent Green to the shadow realm as he put enough pressure on his carotid. The referee had no choice but to end the bout in Pimblett’s favor.

But it was the post-fight interview with Daniel Cormier, that won over the fight fans’ hearts. He gave a shout-out to a young cancer victim, named Chad Jones. The young fan liked to call himself ‘The Baddy’ and Pimblett didn’t back down from letting the world cheer for the young hero. Showing the armband with Chad Jones’ name written on it, Pimblett said, “I just want to dedicate this fight to little Chaddy the Baddy, seven years of age, lost his life to cancer, seven years old. He called himself Chaddy the Baddy because he’s a baddy fan, his name was Chad Jones, little man that’s for you.” Without a doubt, this tribute extracted a bit of tears from the fighting community.

Needless to say, Pimblett’s performance greatly impressed his fellow professional mixed martial artists. But what did the MMA pros have to say about Pimblett’s victory? Let’s find out.

Paddy Pimblett wins over the fighting world by dedicating his win to a cancer victim

Needless to say, the fight greatly impressed the fighting community. Soon after the bout, professionals took to social media and expressed their amazement at the Britisher’s TKO win over Green. Josh Thomson flared out on X and claimed that Green was down for about 10 seconds. He blamed the referee for not stopping the fight earlier. He wrote, “He was asleep for a good 10 seconds. GEEZUS! What was the ref f@cking watching.”

But the rest of the fighters had nothing but praise for the Liverpool resident. Renato Moicano surprisingly linked Pimblett with the light heavyweight champion, Alex Pereira, with his tweet. He commended ‘The Baddy’ as he wrote, “CHAMA” along with a fire emoji. Henry Cejudo apparently did not expect the fight to end this way. He was pretty quick to give the credit to Pimblett. He tweeted, “Wow! I was not expecting it to go down like that! Props to Paddy can’t take away anything from him on that one!”

Aljamain Sterling was not oblivious to the mistake that Green committed that let his opponent take control. It was one simple mistake of letting Pimblett have his back, that led to Green’s defeat. ‘The Funkmaster’ wrote, “Damn. That was impressive! One mistake is all it takes.” Even ‘Iron’ Michael Chandler was impressed with the performance. Impressed with his mesmerising performance and first-round TKO victory, Chandler tweeted, “Ohhhh paddy the baddy…”

Gilbert Burns was absolutely amazed at the triangle choke and commended ‘The Baddy’ for the impressive execution. Being a submission artist himself, ‘Durinho’ was able to appreciate the triangle hold like no one else. He wrote, “Let’s go @PaddyTheBaddy is a bad man! Wow amazing triangle!” Kevin Holland, on the other hand, decided to take a hilarious and sarcastic point. Pointing out at Pimblett’s moniker, ‘The Trailblazer’ wrote, “Paddy a bad man”

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