{"id":352257,"date":"2025-12-16T18:29:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T18:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/352257\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T18:29:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T18:29:07","slug":"paddy-pimblett-will-have-to-get-lucky-at-ufc-324-to-beat-justin-gaethje","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/352257\/","title":{"rendered":"Paddy Pimblett will have to get lucky at UFC 324 to beat Justin Gaethje"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201dI\u2019m planning on fighting perfect and when I fight perfect, I think you have to get lucky to beat me,\u201d Gaethje said on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ukbJ-7DKeyw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a>. \u201cBut the challenge is still ahead. I have to be perfect that night to knock Paddy out and earn my title shot on the White House card. That\u2019s the plan. I think if I can do that, that\u2019s the best way that I can ever imagine finishing off my career.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cThis is my last chance,\u201c Gaethje (26-5) added. \u201dThis opportunity to finish my career off the way that I want to is everything that I could ask for. I\u2019ll fight Paddy for the interim championship. If I win that, I\u2019ll get to fight Ilia (Topuria). Ilia right now is the baddest man in my division, and some consider, across the board. What an opportunity to finish this career off exactly how I\u2019ve fought the whole time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201dI\u2019m planning on fighting perfect and when I fight perfect, I think you have to get lucky to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396,179146,125620,1647],"class_list":{"0":"post-352257","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-ufc-news","15":"tag-ufc-on-paramount","16":"tag-ufc-white-house-2026","17":"tag-upcoming-ufc-events"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}