A lightweight clash pitting Paddy
Pimblett against Jared
Gordon is on tap for
UFC 282.
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The promotion announced the booking on Saturday. UFC 282 takes
place at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on Dec. 10 and features a
light heavyweight championship rematch between Jiri
Prochazka and Glover
Teixeira.
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A former Cage Warriors champion, Pimblett
has emerged as a rising star at 155 pounds after finishing Luigi
Vendramini, Rodrigo
Vargas and Jordan
Leavitt in his first three Octagon appearances. The 27-year-old
Englishman known as “The Baddy” is 19-3 as a professional, with 15
of those triumphs coming inside the distance.
Gordon, meanwhile, has been victorious in four of his last five
promotional outings. Most recently, he outpointed Leonardo
Santos at UFC 278 on Aug. 20. The former Cage Fury Fighting
Championships title holder is 7-4 in UFC competition since
beginning his promotional tenure in 2017.