After wining a bout at UFC London, the English fighter reveals to the crowd he learned of a friend's death just hours before his weigh-in.
The 27-year-old, who has racked up three-straight wins since joining the UFC, left the cage to the strains of You'll Never Walk Alone, a song synonymous with his favourite football club Liverpool, with the crowd singing along.Leavitt gave Pimblett some serious problems in the first round, but in the second the Liverpudlian's strikes started to tell and a knee to the head dropped the American, allowing Pimblett to take his back and secure the finish.
It was the second explosive finish of a night that had its origins on Merseyside, as earlier on the main card flyweight Liverpool's Molly "Meatball" McCann pulled off a signature spinning elbow to down Hannah Goldy en route to a TKO victory. Despite the emotion of those two wins, the evening finished on a low note as Briton Tom Aspinall suffered a serious knee injury seconds into his heavyweight clash with Curtis Blaydes.
Aspinall landed a heavy leg kick before falling back into the centre of the octagon clutching his right knee, with the American awarded the win by TKO as his opponent could not continue.
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