Final Combating Championship (UFC) Strawweight Molly McCann retired at UFC London yesterday (Sat., March 22, 2025) after her disappointing first-round submission loss to UFC newcomer Alexia Thainara, which went down contained in the O2 Enviornment in London, England (watch highlights).
Certainly one of McCann’s closest pals and coaching companions, Paddy Pimblett, attended the UFC Struggle Evening occasion and was visibly emotional, tearing up throughout McCann’s retirement speech.
In the present day (Sunday, March 23, 2025), “The Baddy” shared his response to his good friend’s retirement on Instagram.
“Heartbreaking evening final evening watching my large sister retire,” Pimblett wrote. “Been there along with her from the beginning and can at all times be there. This can be the top of her combating profession, however it’s removed from the top of mine and her friendship. That’s until dying do us half. UK MMA girls’s legend, first English lady to get a win within the UFC, and has the most effective knockouts in girls’s UFC and fight sports activities historical past.
“Her legacy will stay on eternally. Emotional isn’t even the phrase for final evening, however even after I was crying, the Meatball won’t ever fail to make me snicker when she mentioned, ‘Haven’t carried out dangerous for a lesbo who was working in Subway, have I?’ Love u @meatballmolly and at all times will, me large sis.”
Whereas it’s bittersweet for the U.Ok. combined martial arts (MMA) fanbase to not see Pimblett and McCann compete collectively—an electrical pairing that at all times introduced distinctive vitality—it’s a close to certainty they’ll be noticed collectively within the stands, which is at all times a deal with.
Pimblett returns to the octagon subsequent month at UFC 314 in opposition to Michael Chandler, the place he’s presently the betting favourite.
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