Paddy Pimblett is firing back at Dan Hooker after the Kiwi fighter responded to a generic \u2018yer mum\u2019 joke with a very specific insult regarding Paddy\u2019s dead friend.<\/p>\n
In case you missed it<\/a> when it all went down last week, Pimblett suggested Hooker \u201ccouldn\u2019t grapple a r*pist off his mom,\u201d which is a pretty messed up thing to say. Then Hooker took it to an even higher level of messed up by bringing up Pimblett\u2019s friend Ricky, who committed suicide back in 2022. \u201cI thought we were mates, but you\u2019re not a very good mate are you Paddy,\u201d Hooker tweeted. \u201cRIP Ricky.\u201d<\/p>\n Pimblett is no stranger to going too far with insults. The whole reason Ilia Topuria and every other Georgian fighter wants to kick his head in has to do with Paddy \u2018joke\u2019 about how they deserved to get massacred<\/a> by Russians. It took him a hot minute to understand the weight of what he was joking about then, but he intimately understands how messed up Hooker\u2019s words were.<\/p>\n \u201cI never said nothing bad about his mom,\u201d Pimblett told Fox Sports Australia. \u201cMissus Hooker\u2019s probably a lovely woman, and I never said a bad word about his mom. But then he goes on and says something about my dead mate who can\u2019t defend himself. So it was a bit weird. I had my friends and family messaging me saying what\u2019s going on here and all that.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe way people have gone on about what I said, but no one\u2019s [condemned] what he said and gone, \u2018What are you doing?\u2019 Mentioning someone who\u2019s dead is very, very strange. But, you know, that\u2019s the MMA world for you. No matter what I do, no matter what I say, people will make me look like the worst man alive when I just used an analogy for how bad Dan Hooker\u2019s grappling is.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cDan Hooker\u2019s beneath me now, especially when I win this belt,\u201d Pimblett continued. \u201cHe\u2019s 5-5 in his last 10. He\u2019s an absolute crab, you know what I mean? People are calling Michael Chandler, but Michael Chandler knocked him out in two minutes. So what\u2019s Dan Hooker?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cYou don\u2019t mention dead people. Well, that\u2019s what Dan Hooker\u2019s done. Dan Hooker\u2019s mentioned a dead person and basically trying to say it was my fault he killed himself, saying that I\u2019m not a good friend. Like, that\u2019s below the belt. What I said was nothing to do with his mom. Never said a bad word about his mom. What I said was an analogy for how bad his grappling is, and somehow I\u2019m the bad guy, and I\u2019m the one who\u2019s in the wrong when he\u2019s mentioned my dead friend.\u201d<\/p>\n Pimblett is set to fight Justin Gaethje for the interim lightweight title at UFC 324<\/a> on January 24th. As for Hooker, he\u2019ll fight Benoit Saint-Denis a week later at UFC 325<\/a> in Sydney, Australia. Surprisingly, \u201cThe Hangman\u201d isn\u2019t so far removed from \u201cThe Baddy\u201d as Paddy suggested. Pimblett is ranked No. 5 at 155 while Hooker is ranked No. 6. And if Hooker wanted to give Pimblett a reason to fight him down the line despite a larger gap, he accomplished that goal with his below the belt comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paddy Pimblett is firing back at Dan Hooker after the Kiwi fighter responded to a generic \u2018yer mum\u2019…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85,1396,179146],"class_list":["post-414715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news","tag-ufc-on-paramount"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414715","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=414715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}