{"id":435485,"date":"2026-01-25T00:36:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T00:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/435485\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T00:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T00:36:13","slug":"ufc-324-live-results-analysis-for-gaethje-vs-pimblett-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/435485\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC 324: Live results, analysis for Gaethje vs. Pimblett"},"content":{"rendered":"

The UFC might soon have its first challenger for Ilia Topuria’s lightweight championship, as Justin Gaethje<\/a> will face Paddy Pimblett<\/a> for the interim title in the main event at UFC 324.<\/p>\n

Gaethje, a former divisional interim titleholder, earned this opportunity by winning three of his past four fights, including his most recent unanimous decision win over Rafael Fiziev<\/a> last March. Pimblett, an ascending fan favorite from the U.K., is undefeated inside the Octagon. He enters the fight following a knockout victory over Michael Chandler<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the co-main event, former men’s bantamweight champion Sean O’Malley<\/a> vies to reenter title contention when he takes on Song Yadong<\/a>. O’Malley looks to get back in the win column after suffering back-to-back losses in his past two Octagon appearances. Song beat Henry Cejudo<\/a> by unanimous decision in his previous fight.<\/p>\n

Also on the card, two other former UFC champions will be in action as former strawweight titleholder Rose Namajunas<\/a> will face Natalia Silva<\/a> in a women’s flyweight bout and former two-time men’s flyweight champ Deiveson Figueiredo<\/a> goes head-to-head with Umar Nurmagomedov<\/a> in a bantamweight fight.<\/p>\n

Brett Okamoto, Andreas Hale, Jeff Wagenheim and Dre Waters break down all the action from the first UFC fight card of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The UFC might soon have its first challenger for Ilia Topuria’s lightweight championship, as Justin Gaethje will face…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":435409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-435485","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\/435485","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=435485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}