{"id":434066,"date":"2026-01-24T08:35:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T08:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/434066\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T08:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T08:35:10","slug":"paddy-pimblett-vs-justin-gaethje-ufc-324-predictions-from-michael-bisping-ilia-topuria-sean-omalley-rose-namajunas-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/434066\/","title":{"rendered":"Paddy Pimblett vs Justin Gaethje: UFC 324 predictions from Michael Bisping, Ilia Topuria, Sean O&#8217;Malley, Rose Namajunas and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Paddy Pimblett aims to make history when he faces Justin Gaethje for the UFC lightweight interim title on Saturday in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 31-year-old can become <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/mixed-martial-arts\/articles\/c20gzjxvr37o\" class=\"ssrcss-ckhpdl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Liverpool&#8217;s first UFC title holder<\/a> with victory and only the fourth Briton to become a UFC interim or undisputed champion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gaethje, 37, poses a serious threat to those ambitions as a top contender in the lightweight division for the past eight years and a former interim champion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Can Pimblett pull off a famous victory? Or will Gaethje bring the Pimblett train to a halt?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">You can follow all the action from 03:00 GMT on Sunday, 25 January on the BBC Sport website and app.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">BBC Sport asked the world of MMA for predictions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paddy Pimblett aims to make history when he faces Justin Gaethje for the UFC lightweight interim title on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-434066","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-mma","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434066","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=434066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}