Paddy Pimblett calls for more discipline when dealing with today’s generation of children.
‘The Baddy’ On ‘What’s Wrong With The Kids These Days…’
The UFC star is coming off a decision win over Tony Ferguson at UFC 296, improving his record to 5-0 in the Octagon. But before Pimblett went on to make waves in MMA, he grew up in Liverpool, England.
As it turns out, ‘The Baddy’ wasn’t no ‘goody two shoes’ whenever he was a child and his parents made sure to hold him accountable for his actions. Pimblett may not have understood it then, but he has his own grasp on it now.
“I got slapped if I gave cheek,” Pimblett said on the Happy Endings Podcast. “Didn’t just get beat up, I got slapped as a kid if I gave cheek.
“I think that’s what’s wrong with the kids these days. Kids don’t get smacked enough. Parents don’t slap the kids anymore, so they’re just proper cheeky. That’s just me being honest.”
UFC Welterweight Neil Magny made similar headlines last year, when he said he was going to a give opponent Ian Garry a ‘whooping that you give your son’. Garry lashed out at Magny in response, claiming he stood for child abuse.
Pimblett Revisits His Childhood
Pimblett doesn’t stray away from the topic though, talking about punishments he took as a kid.
“When we were younger and my dad was away, she’d have to be the authoritarian. She’d hit us with the belt. That’s just normal for me. Like nowadays, kids don’t really even get a smacked ass. It’s crazy. Teachers having fights with students because the kids have never been taught any respect for their elders.”
“I remember getting suspended from junior school, I was in year 5 or 6. I was like, 10, 11 and I took a BB gun into school. Me and my 2 mates went on the yard shooting people, and someone snitched us up. We were the only other kids to get suspended from junior school. I gotta a beatdown off my ma for that, mate.”
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