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Paddy Pimblett got the biggest win of his career this weekend and he made sure to use his time in the limelight to speak about suicide prevention.
On Saturday afternoon, Paddy The Baddy got the win after choking out Jordan Leavitt in the second round of their fight.
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After the fight, Paddy spoke about suicide prevention days after his friend Ricky killed himself.
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“I woke up on Friday morning 4am to a message that one of my friends back home had killed himself, this was 5 hours before my weigh in. So Ricky, that’s for you.
There’s a stigma in this world where men can’t talk, if you’re a man and you have weight on your shoulders and you think that the only way you can solve it is by killing yourself, please speak to someone, speak to anyone, people would rather, I know I’d rather my mate cry on my shoulder than go to his funeral next week, so please get rid of this stigma and men start talking.”