{"id":16653,"date":"2025-04-13T13:51:07","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T13:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/16653\/"},"modified":"2025-04-13T13:51:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T13:51:07","slug":"paddy-pimblett-rages-at-ufc-314-judges-during-first-look-at-the-scorecards-for-michael-chandler-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/16653\/","title":{"rendered":"Paddy Pimblett rages at UFC 314 judges during first look at the scorecards for Michael Chandler fight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Paddy Pimblett was furious after picking up the biggest win of his MMA career. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/2025\/04\/13\/paddy-pimblett-vs-michael-chandler-ufc-314-result-the-baddy-scores-vicious-ko-in-bloody-co-main-event\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Baddy\u2019 battered and bloodied Michael Chandler<\/a> en route to a third-round TKO victory at <a href=\"https:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/tag\/ufc-314\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UFC 314<\/a> in Miami on Saturday night. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/tag\/paddy-pimblett\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paddy Pimblett<\/a> celebrated wildly in the Octagon before trying to set up a <a href=\"https:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/2025\/04\/13\/paddy-pimblett-names-legend-as-ideal-opponent-after-slicing-through-michael-chandler-at-ufc-314\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fight with Charles Oliveira<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>However, a post-fight glance at the judges\u2019 scorecards almost ruined the Englishman\u2019s good mood. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2209996273-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by Jeff Bottari\/Zuffa LLC\" class=\"wp-image-191215\" \/>Photo by Jeff Bottari\/Zuffa LLCPaddy Pimblett contests UFC 314 scorecards <\/p>\n<p>Not that they mattered, but Pimblett was up on two of the three UFC 314 judges\u2019 scorecards. <\/p>\n<p>Junichiro Kamijo saw the first two rounds 10-9 in favor of the 30-year-old Liverpudlian. <\/p>\n<p>However, Chris Lee and Derek Cleary aren\u2019t in Pimblett\u2019s good books after scoring round one against him.<\/p>\n<p>All three cageside officials saw round two in favor of Pimblett, who was awarded a 10-8 card by Lee. <\/p>\n<p>Still, that wasn\u2019t enough to save him from an angry tongue-lashing from the new 155lb title contender. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo judges gave him the first round, the stupid c\u2014s,\u201d Pimblett said before reading out fan comments slating the scorecards. <\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cThey are not wrong. These judges! What the f\u2014 was that? I absolutely muftied [battered] him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Paddy Pimblett clashes with Colby Covington <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/tag\/colby-covington\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Colby Covington<\/a> attempted to crash Paddy Pimblett\u2019s backstage interview at UFC 314. <\/p>\n<p>The two men had to be <a href=\"https:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/2025\/04\/13\/paddy-pimblett-and-colby-covington-separated-by-security-during-heated-backstage-clash-at-ufc-314\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">separated by security<\/a> as they swapped insults after months of online beef. <\/p>\n<p>UFC boss <a href=\"https:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/2025\/04\/13\/dana-white-reacts-as-paddy-pimblett-and-colby-covington-get-into-post-ufc-314-backstage-altercation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dana White played down the altercation<\/a> during his post-fight press conference. <\/p>\n<p>Pimblett subsequently explained why he almost got into a second fight of the night at UFC 314.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s trying to stay relevant,\u201d the 23-3 star told assembled media after his biggest win to date. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust came over and started to chat s\u2014 because he saw a camera\u2026 He\u2019s an absolute bum. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cNearly 40 and he\u2019s trying to stay relevant by jumping on me while there\u2019s a camera there.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paddy Pimblett was furious after picking up the biggest win of his MMA career. \u2018The Baddy\u2019 battered and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[11307,5705,11308,79,5706,11309,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-16653","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-michael-chandler","9":"tag-mma","10":"tag-paddy-pimblett","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-ufc","13":"tag-ufc-314","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114330985379793159","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}