Paddy Pimblett is the actual deal.
‘The Baddy’ delivered maybe his most spectacular efficiency contained in the Octagon, smashing his means by way of former Bellator champion Michael Chandler within the UFC 314 co-main occasion on Saturday night time. Pimblett finally completed ‘Iron’ with a barrage of ground-and-pound strikes within the third spherical, shifting him to an ideal 7-0 below the UFC banner and placing him doubtlessly one win away from a title alternative.
Instantly following the festivities contained in the Kaseya Middle in Miami, White dubbed Pimblett the “actual deal” and confirmed {that a} big-name opponent is within the Liverpudlian’s future.
“Paddy Pimblett confirmed tonight that he’s the actual deal,” White mentioned on the UFC 314 post-fight press convention. Beating Michael Chandler and beating him the best way that he did—I don’t know how one can doubt the child anymore. It appears doubtless that his subsequent combat will probably be in opposition to a big-name opponent, in all probability one which places him into title competition.”
Does Paddy Pimblett’s path to a title shot run by way of Arman Tsarukyan?
Talking with Joe Rogan contained in the Octagon, Pimblett referred to as for a conflict with somebody of the light-weight division’s high canine, together with Dustin Poirier, Charles Oliveira, Justin Gaethje, and Arman Tsarukyan. Nonetheless, it was Tsarukyan who obtained most of Pimblett’s post-fight consideration.
“F*ck Arman,” he advised Joe Rogan after naming him as a possible opponent for his subsequent combat. “He’s just a little helmet, f*ck that sausage.”
With Poirier rumored to face Max Holloway in his UFC swan tune this summer time and Islam Makhachev lobbying for his subsequent light-weight title protection to be in opposition to Gaethje, Pimblett’s street to his first shot at UFC gold could undergo Arman Tsarukyan.
