{"id":452164,"date":"2026-02-01T19:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T19:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/452164\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T19:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T19:18:08","slug":"paddy-pimblett-rips-dan-hooker-after-ufc-325-open-to-saint-denis-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/452164\/","title":{"rendered":"Paddy Pimblett rips Dan Hooker after UFC 325, open to Saint Denis next"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paddy Pimblett<\/a> enjoyed watching Dan Hooker lose at UFC 325<\/a>, and he’s certainly the feeling was mutual one week prior.<\/p>\n

Pimblett (23-4 MMA, 7-1 UFC) and Hooker (24-14 MMA, 14-10 UFC) have engaged in a feud in the weeks leading up to their respective January fights, which they both lost.<\/p>\n

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Pimblett dropped a unanimous decision<\/a> to Justin Gaethje<\/a> in an interim title bout at UFC 324, while seven days later, Hooker suffered a second-round TKO defeat<\/a> to Saint Denis at UFC 325.<\/p>\n

With some personal words exchanged<\/a> between them, Pimblett did not mince his words about Hooker in his UFC 325 reaction video.<\/p>\n

“Good scrap \u2013 nice to see Dan get TKO’d after the sh*t he was chatting,” Pimblett said on his YouTube channel<\/a>. “He probably enjoyed me losing last week. That was probably a generational hate watch. I never got finished, though.”<\/p>\n

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On the other side of the equation, Pimblett only had positive reviews for Saint Denis after a dominant stoppage of Hooker in Sydney. And he didn’t rule out a future matchup between them.<\/p>\n

“I really like Benoit Saint Denis,” Pimblett said. “I think he’s a proper nice fella. I like this fighting style. He comes to bang. I proper like Saint Denis. I hope he does well, but obviously if he’s next for me, he’s getting finished.”<\/p>\n

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