Paddy Pimblett thinks Bobby Green ‘a bit bit chinny now’

Paddy Pimblett thinks Bobby Green won’t ever have the ability to totally get better from his controversial stoppage loss to Jalin Turner in December, and that’s ultimately going to play to his advantage at UFC 304.

Green was the victim of a careless late stoppage from referee Kerry Hatley in his UFC on ESPN 52 bout with Turner through which he took multiple unnecessary blows while already unconscious. He bounced back just just a few months later at UFC 300, though, defeating Jim Miller by unanimous decision to establish the July 27 showdown with Pimblett at RAC Arena in Manchester, England (ESPN+ pay-per-view, ESPN, ESPN+).

Pimblett (21-3 MMA, 5-0 UFC) vividly remembers watching live as Green (32-15-1 MMA, 13-10-1 UFC) was battered by Turner. He disliked the stoppage as much as anyone, and in studying Green upfront of UFC 304, he’s concluded that result did irreparable damage to Green’s durability.

“That fight with Jalin, I used to be sitting on this room (where I’m doing this interview) watching it with my mate Blaze,” Pimblett told MMA Junkie. “We were each like, ‘Stop the fight, stop the fight.’ As much as he talked sh*t about me that fight week, I can remember turning to my lad Blaze and saying, ‘I do know he spoke sh*t about me, but that’s f*cking disgusting. How has that ref allowed that to go on like that?’

“I do think it’s still affecting him because he got clipped with just a few shots against Jim Miller, who will not be an enormous puncher, and in the primary round he looked a bit bit (wobbly). He looked like Jim hurt him a bit bit, I believed. Jim won the primary round against Bobby. So I feel he’s a bit bit chinny now. Not even the Jalin Turner one. He got knocked out clean by Drew Dober as well a few months before that. He’s been knocked out just a few times, but that Jalin Turner one – your chin isn’t the identical after something like that.”

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Despite seeing a juicy goal on Green’s head, Pimblett, 29, recently made headlines by suggesting a grappling-heavy fight at UFC 304.

Green previously stated that he doesn’t think Pimblett can submit him, and the Brit replied by daring his opponent to compete with him on the mat. That resulted in fan backlash toward Pimblett that he was reluctant to strike with Green, but he said that couldn’t be farther from the case.

Pimblett isn’t bothered by any fan response toward him, nonetheless, and said that when UFC 304 arrives, he will likely be trying to put Green away in any manner he can.

“I just said, ‘You said I can’t submit you – grapple then with me, lad,’” Pimblett said. “I’m not saying I won’t strike with him, because I’ll. I’m going to return out, I’m going to attempt to take his head off his f*cking shoulders. If he’s saying that I can’t submit him and he can grapple with me – come and do it then. He put an image up of his brown belt on his (Instagram) story. It’s like, f*cking hell, I got my brown belt after I was 21.”

“It’s crazy. I can’t say anything though, lad. Anything I say get’s spun and gets made to sound like I said something else, or people just jump on the hate bandwagon. It’s cool to hate ‘Paddy The Baddy’ on the minute.”

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