Paddy
Pimblett and Ilia
Topuria finally appear to be on good terms.
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Their beef initially began due to Pimblett’s controversial remarks
about Topuria’s home country of Georgia. The two then came across
each other at a fighter hotel ahead of a UFC London card in March
2022, when “The Baddy” threw a bottle of hand sanitizer at
Topuria.
While the two have since traded multiple barbs over the years, they
weren’t on a collision course until recently. There have been talks
of a potential future clash between the two after “El Matador”
vacated his featherweight title and moved up to lightweight.
Pimblett even recently said that he wants to fight Topuria and that
“hand sanitizer boy” doesn’t deserve an immediate lightweight title
shot.
However, they now appear to have buried the hatchet. Pimblett and
Topuria came across each other yet again ahead of UFC
London, which goes down at the O2 Arena on Saturday. Pimblett
was there to support teammates Molly
McCann and Nathan
Fletcher, while Topuria was with teammate Guram
Kutateladze. Pimblett and Topuria were seen fist bumping each
other at the ceremonial weigh-ins, marking an end to their dispute.
Pimblett even shared a clip of the same with the caption: “The fist
bump heard round the world.”
Pimblett will co-headline UFC
314 opposite Michael
Chandler on April 12 at the Kaseya Center in Miami, Florida.
Meanwhile, UFC CEO Dana White has promised some fight news for
Topuria in the coming weeks.