Fortunately, Pimblett didn’t suffer a concussion or any other injuries in the fight and wants to return the octagon sooner than many expected.
“I’ll be back in the summer,” Pimblett said on his YouTube channel. “Just let me know when and where, Hunter [Campbell] , Dana [White], Sean [Shelby], and I’m ready to go. I haven’t got any injuries. People keep going, ‘Oh, the damage he took, he’s going to have to take months off.’ I didn’t even have a concussion. I never had no headaches after it. All I had was a marked face and sore eye balls after getting poked in them.”
Pimblett not only has a targeted timeframe for his next fight, he has a list of names for potential opponents. Benoit Saint Denis, who passed him in the rankings, sits atop the list.
“I’ll fight anyone,” Pimblett continued. “I just know whatever name gets sent to me on a contract, I sign it and I fight them. But Saint Denis sounds like a good fight to me. Europe’s two best lightweights going at it against each other. Or, I won’t get the winner, but the loser of Max [Holloway]-Charles [Oliveira]. F*ck, I’ll fight Arman [Tsarukyan] if you want me to. I don’t give a f*ck. I’ll fight anyone.”
