Paddy Pimblett hates losing which is why he wants to make sure it never happens again.
The Liverpool-born MMA fighter took his unbeaten run to six with a controversial win over Jared Gordon at UFC 282 in December.
Pimblett hasn't lost a fight since he unsuccessfully challenged Soren Bak for the vacant Cage Warriors lightweight title in 2018.
During a recent appearance on the 'Tony Bellew Is Angry' podcast, Pimblett admitted that he struggled to come to terms with the manner of that defeat.
"I lost to Soren Bak, I lost the world title fight," he said.
"I broke my hand again in the fight. I was then out for like... Well, I was waiting for surgery for multiple months, couldn't train properly and like... When I was waking up, as you say, you want to hide from the world.
"You don't want to go out. You don't want to leave your bedroom. You feel like the biggest failure.
"You've been saying you're going to do this and that and then you've been beat, you know what I mean? You get made to look like a fool. You don't want to leave your room.
"So when the missus is getting up and giving me a kiss and going to work I was just... Like I normally roll over and go back to sleep. I was just sitting up and crying, like, every morning without fail. I was just sitting up and crying my eyes out."
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Paddy Pimblett unsuccessfully challenged Soren Bak for the vacant Cage Warriors lightweight title in 2018
Pimblett, 28, also explained how it affected his personal life after suffering the third defeat of his mixed martial arts career.
He added: "It was weird.
"There were like times when like I was just crying all the time. Like, I remember sitting in the back of my mate's bird's car and then having to just go 'Oh, I'll jump out here' and jumping out and just crying, walking towards somewhere. Again, I can remember ringing the missus saying 'Oh, I'll be at yours now.'
"Walked up to my bird's house and as I was walking up to her house I just broke down in tears and I was just sitting on her front step crying for about ten minutes and she's opened the door to look for me as if to say 'He said he was walking up, where is he?' And then I'm just sitting on her front step crying.
"Like, people don't see them side of things. People think that 'Oh, you've got a boss life, you get to do what you want, you get to do what you love.' They don't see the dark side of things.
"Like, the dark side of the sport is something that's swept under the rug and I don't think anyone experiences it like fighters."
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