Following the lives of two of Britain's top MMA fighters, this BBC Three docuseries is not Made in Chelsea. A melange of full-contact disciplines from all over the globe, it involves punching, kicking, grappling and ground-fighting, with seemingly very few rules. Imagine a barefoot street brawl and you’re almost there.assumed prior knowledge. With tennis or football, you might get away with that, but not with a sport only invented 30 years ago.
Paddy “The Baddy” Pimblett and “Meatball” Molly McCann, “proud scousers and best mates”, are a pair of Britain’s top MMA fighters. The series follows them as Pimblett returns to the “cage” following a serious ankle injury. McCann was, meanwhile, attempting a comeback after two successive defeats nearly led to her retirement from this brutal-looking sport.might be alarmed at the unbridled ferocity of the fist blows.
We also got to hang out with Pimblett’s wife, Laura, who was heavily pregnant with twins and his mother Jackie – both of whom beamed indulgently as the returning champion gorged on pizza and cheeseburgers. “I prefer food to sex,” he declared, while Laura likened him to a wheelie bin. Luckily, though, he does have the cheerful charisma to carry a reality show like this – a quick scouse wit reminiscent of the early Beatles. “This isn’tMcCann came into sharper focus in episode two. After her second recent defeat, her manager dropped her down a weight, from flyweight to strawweight for her next fight in Vegas. These bouts are fought under the aegis of an American company called
It wasn’t clear how much either Pimblett or McCann earns, but they both own businesses. McCann’s ventures include an Italian restaurant and a brand of craft gin called Pimp Gin – so-named because one of her friends apparently misheard “pink gin”. A sequence where she tested the gin with her promotional team felt like an over-extendedpitch. Pimblett is more of a TV natural and you could watch him snoring on a sofa . You kind of wished he was around to take the piss out of the gin, as it were..
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