{"id":8320,"date":"2026-02-17T18:45:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T13:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/17\/eating-well-pimblett-shares-weight-gain-after-ufc-loss\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T18:45:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T13:15:05","slug":"eating-well-pimblett-shares-weight-gain-after-ufc-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/17\/eating-well-pimblett-shares-weight-gain-after-ufc-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Eating well&#8217; &#8211; Pimblett shares weight gain after UFC loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Published9 minutes ago<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Liverpool&#x27;s Paddy Pimblett says he has been &quot;eating well&quot; and has put on 36lb (16kg) since losing to Justin Gaethje at UFC 324.<\/p>\n<p>Pimblett tipped the scales at 11st (70kg) just 24 hours before facing Gaethje for the interim UFC lightweight title on 25 January.<\/p>\n<p>Since that <a href=\"\/sport\/mixed-martial-arts\/articles\/c8j3xndjzn7o\">unanimous decision loss<\/a> in Las Vegas, Pimblett has returned to Merseyside and indulged in one of his favourite pastimes &#8211; eating.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I weighed myself this morning, I was only 86kg,&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DHe3aGGUGOg&amp;t=620s\">Pimblett said on his vlog, <!-- -->external<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I&#x27;ve been at like 90 something at this stage before. I&#x27;ve been eating well.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Pimblett has a well-charted history of piling on the pounds after fights and previously told BBC Sport that he <a href=\"\/sport\/mixed-martial-arts\/62135535\">consumed almost 11,000 calories<\/a> after a win at UFC London in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old follows an unrestricted diet when he is not training for a fight and has been touring Liverpool&#x27;s eateries over the past three weeks.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I know the title (of the video) says I got fat again but I&#x27;m not that fat,&quot; Pimblett said. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;I&#x27;m not like 94, 95 kilos. We&#x27;re doing good. We&#x27;re doing all right.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Nicknamed &#x27;The Baddy&#x27;, Pimblett has won 23 of his 27 fights as a professional mixed martial artist. He was on a seven-fight win-streak prior to losing against American Gaethje.<\/p>\n<h2>Related topics<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/sport\/mixed-martial-arts\">Mixed Martial Arts<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/sport\/mixed-martial-arts\/articles\/cgm49nyjr8ko\">\n<p>MMA schedule and results 2026<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Published7 February<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/crgy3zy4meyo\">\n<p>Watch every Born to Brawl episode<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Published28 April 2024<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>More MMA from the BBC<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/sport\/articles\/cl5q9dk9jl3o\">\n<p>Notifications, social media and more with BBC Sport<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Published16 August 2025<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#x27;Eating well&#x27; &#8211; Pimblett shares weight gain after UFC lossImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Paddy Pimblett made his UFC debut in 2021Published9 minutes agoLiverpool&#x27;s Paddy Pimbl&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-decor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}