{"id":41274,"date":"2026-10-26T03:33:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T03:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/Paddy-Pimblett-says-Movsar-Evloev-quit-against-Alexander-Volkanovski-203350"},"modified":"2026-10-26T03:33:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T03:33:21","slug":"paddy-pimblett-says-movsar-evloev-quit-against-alexander-volkanovski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/paddy-pimblett-says-movsar-evloev-quit-against-alexander-volkanovski\/","title":{"rendered":"Paddy Pimblett says Movsar Evloev &#8216;quit&#8217; against Alexander Volkanovski"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/paddy-pimblett-says-movsar-evloev-quit-against-alexander-volkanovski.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Paddy-Pimblett-84902\">Paddy<br \/>\nPimblett<\/a> believes <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Movsar-Evloev-183539\">Movsar<br \/>\nEvloev<\/a> could have survived the second round against <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Alexander-Volkanovski-101527\">Alexander<br \/>\nVolkanovski<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Evloev (20-1) challenged Volkanovski (29-4) for the <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/organizations\/Ultimate-Fighting-Championship-2\"><br \/>\nUltimate Fighting Championship<\/a> featherweight title in the main<br \/>\nevent of <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/events\/UFC-333-Volkanovski-vs-Evloev-113863\"><br \/>\nUFC 333<\/a> on Saturday in Abu Dhabi. Volkanovski secured a<br \/>\ntechnical knockout at 4:54 of Round 2, but Pimblett argued that<br \/>\nEvloev gave up too quickly.<\/p>\n<div id=\"adViAi\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Paddy Pimblett questions Movsar Evloev&#8217;s defense during<br \/>\nAlexander Volkanovski&#8217;s UFC 333 TKO<\/h2>\n<p>According to \u201cThe Baddy,\u201d Evloev could have reached the end of the<br \/>\nround had he kept moving rather than covering up during the closing<br \/>\nseconds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvloev quit there for me, like. Just rolled over,\u201d Pimblett said<br \/>\non his YouTube channel. \u201cWhen there&#8217;s five seconds left, you just<br \/>\ngotta keep moving so the fight stays on. You can&#8217;t start just<br \/>\ncovering up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Evloev defeated <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Lerone-Murphy-209721\">Lerone<br \/>\nMurphy<\/a>, <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Aljamain-Sterling-66313\">Aljamain<br \/>\nSterling<\/a>, <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Arnold-Allen-97499\">Arnold<br \/>\nAllen<\/a> and <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Diego-Lopes-112531\">Diego Lopes<\/a><br \/>\nbefore suffering his first professional loss to Volkanovski. The<br \/>\nchampion, meanwhile, expressed interest in another fight after<br \/>\nretaining his title.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Pur-ey1uxJc?si=bRUB_QXiO8XsKvIS&amp;start=724\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen>[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/center>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paddy Pimblett believes Movsar Evloev could have survived the second round against Alexander Volkanovski. Evloev (20-1) challenged Volkanovski (29-4) for the Ultimate Fighting Championship featherweight title in the main event of UFC 333 on Saturday in Abu Dhabi. Volkanovski secured a technical knockout at 4:54 of Round 2, but Pimblett argued that Evloev gave up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41275,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41274","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\/41274","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=41274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}