Welcome to your weekly dose of Three Amigos Podcast fun. This episode is loaded with great content, courtesy of our special guest, Cage Warriors featherweight champion, Paddy Pimblett. We don’t have a Weight List episode this week, as George Lockhart is working with Conor McGregor closely for his UFC 205 weight cut, but we do have new installments of our popular segments: Roundtable Rant™, Q&A with Captain Kidd™ and Sports That Can’t Stop No Double Leg™.
Ordered Listing with timestamps:
Roundtable Rant™ - 7:45
Q&A with Captain Kidd™ - 24:00
Sports That Can't Stop No Double Leg™ - 29:05
Paddy Pimblett – 49:00
Here is a summary of each interview segment, complete with the time stamps for when each interview or special segment begins. As always, we hope you enjoy listening to the show as much as we enjoyed recording it.
Paddy Pimblett (49:00 mark)
“I’ve got no respect for Bisping, to be honest. He’s forgotten his roots, and doesn’t even know where he’s from anymore. He goes on like he’s from Manchester, but he doesn’t sound like he’s from Manchester. He’s not from the North no more, he’s American.”
- Motivation/inspiration for making MMA his chosen career path
- If he would entertain big money offers from other organizations besides the UFC
- If he has a “hit list” of names he’d like to face in the Octagon
- Cage Warriors’ deal that has him making better than first-time UFC lightweights
- Thoughts on the prospect of one day leaving Cage Warriors, a promotion he helped reinvigorate after an 18-month period of inactivity
- Thoughts on former teammate, Danny Roberts’ fight with Mike Perry
- How long he thinks he’ll be able to stay at featherweight before his body outgrows the division
- What his weight cuts are like
- If he feels added pressure with the “next big thing” moniker he’s been dubbed with
- What his social life has been like since everybody’s catching on to him
- What his “superpower” is
- His fancy footwork
- Thoughts on Julian Erosa
- His thoughts on the other two superstars from the British isles (Conor McGregor and Michael Bisping)
- His next steps for global domination
The hosts discuss a variety of topics that include:
- WME-IMG changes
- GSP vs. the UFC
- Tito Ortiz vs. Chael Sonnen fight announcement
- Roundtable Rant™
- Q & A with Captain Kidd™
- WSOF event cancellations
- Sports That Can’t Stop No Double Leg™
- Current staff prediction standings (Mookie is NOT in the lead)
- Staff predictions for Bellator 162
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