{"id":40352,"date":"2026-09-07T03:34:49","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T03:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/Paddy-Pimblett-responds-to-rumored-December-Ilia-Topuria-fight-202688"},"modified":"2026-09-07T03:34:49","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T03:34:49","slug":"paddy-pimblett-responds-to-rumored-december-ilia-topuria-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/paddy-pimblett-responds-to-rumored-december-ilia-topuria-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Paddy Pimblett responds to rumored December Ilia Topuria fight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Paddy
\nPimblett<\/a> claims he hasn\u2019t been offered a fight against Ilia
\nTopuria<\/a> amidst rumors the two could square off next.<\/p>\n

Sean
\nO’Malley<\/a>\u2019s coach, Tim Welch<\/a>,
\nrecently claimed to have heard rumors of a potential matchup
\nbetween Pimblett (24-4) and Topuria (17-1) being in the works for
\nDecember. However, while \u201cThe Baddy\u201d admittedly wants to return in
\nDecember, he says he hasn\u2019t been offered Topuria and is open to
\nfighting any of the top lightweights in the
\nUltimate Fighting Championship<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Paddy Pimblett says UFC hasn’t approached him about Ilia
\nTopuria fight<\/h2>\n

Pimblett claims he hasn\u2019t been approached by the UFC about a
\npotential Topuria fight, but is open to taking on the former
\ntwo-division champ next, in addition to Arman
\nTsarukyan<\/a>, Mauricio
\nRuffy<\/a>, Charles
\nOliveira<\/a> and current champ Justin
\nGaethje<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d love to smash [Ilia\u2019s] head in, lad, but we need to wait and
\nsee. No one spoke to me about it,\u201d Pimblett told Eze Obasi. \u201c[I
\ncould fight] Arman, Gaethje, Ruffy, Charles. There\u2019s loads of
\nnames. If I fight against this year, it\u2019ll be December,
\nhopefully.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pimblett and Topuria have a longstanding rivalry, sparked by the
\nBrit\u2019s comments about Georgia, the latter\u2019s native country.
\nMoreover, Pimblett refers to Topuria as \u201csanitizer boy\u201d after
\nthrowing a bottle of hand sanitizer at him at the London fighter
\nhotel in 2022. They\u2019ve also clashed at press conferences since then
\nand publicly mocked one another for their title losses to
\nGaethje.<\/p>\n

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Paddy Pimblett claims he hasn\u2019t been offered a fight against Ilia Topuria amidst rumors the two could square off next. Sean O’Malley\u2019s coach, Tim Welch, recently claimed to have heard rumors of a potential matchup between Pimblett (24-4) and Topuria (17-1) being in the works for December. However, while \u201cThe Baddy\u201d admittedly wants to return […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40353,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-martial-arts-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}