Paddy
Pimblett claims he hasn’t been offered a fight against Ilia
Topuria amidst rumors the two could square off next.
Sean
O’Malley’s 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 “The Baddy” admittedly wants to return in
December, he says he hasn’t been offered Topuria and is open to
fighting any of the top lightweights in the
Ultimate Fighting Championship.
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Paddy Pimblett says UFC hasn’t approached him about Ilia
Topuria fight
Pimblett claims he hasn’t been approached by the UFC about a
potential Topuria fight, but is open to taking on the former
two-division champ next, in addition to Arman
Tsarukyan, Mauricio
Ruffy, Charles
Oliveira and current champ Justin
Gaethje.
“I’d love to smash [Ilia’s] head in, lad, but we need to wait and
see. No one spoke to me about it,” Pimblett told Eze Obasi. “[I
could fight] Arman, Gaethje, Ruffy, Charles. There’s loads of
names. If I fight against this year, it’ll be December,
hopefully.”
Pimblett and Topuria have a longstanding rivalry, sparked by the
Brit’s comments about Georgia, the latter’s native country.
Moreover, Pimblett refers to Topuria as “sanitizer boy” after
throwing a bottle of hand sanitizer at him at the London fighter
hotel in 2022. They’ve also clashed at press conferences since then
and publicly mocked one another for their title losses to
Gaethje.