{"id":436264,"date":"2026-01-25T09:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T09:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/436264\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T09:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T09:26:08","slug":"ufc-what-next-for-paddy-pimblett-and-who-could-he-fight-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/436264\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC: What next for Paddy Pimblett and who could he fight next?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Arman Tsarukyan was one of the first to take aim at Pimblett after the fight, suggesting he was &#8220;gifted&#8221; his opportunities in the UFC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The lightweights have been sparring from a distance since Tsarukyan was overlooked for the interim title shot, despite being ranked number one in the division.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tsarukyan is in truth a very tricky return. He is a solid all-round competitor and is on a five-fight unbeaten streak with just one loss in his past 11 contests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The fight would generate a lot of interest and be another chance for Pimblett to show he belongs among the elite lightweights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And a win over Tsarukyan would fire Pimblett right back into the title picture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arman Tsarukyan was one of the first to take aim at Pimblett after the fight, suggesting he was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-436264","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\/436264","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=436264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}