{"id":453833,"date":"2026-02-02T15:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T15:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/453833\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T15:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T15:45:08","slug":"paddy-pimblett-reacts-to-dan-hookers-loss-against-benoit-saint-denis-at-ufc-325","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/453833\/","title":{"rendered":"Paddy Pimblett reacts to Dan Hooker&#8217;s loss against Benoit Saint Denis at UFC 325"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paddy Pimblett has given his thoughts on Dan Hooker\u2019s loss at the hands of Benoit Saint Denis last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>As we know, Paddy Pimblett and Dan Hooker aren\u2019t big fans of one another. In fact, in the last couple of weeks, they\u2019ve been throwing some pretty personal shots at each other in interviews and on social media. Unfortunately, in the cage, neither has been able to pick up the win they\u2019ve been looking for recently.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/dan-hooker\/dan-hooker-compares-paddy-pimblett-baby-giraffe-ufc-324\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dan Hooker compares Paddy Pimblett to a \u2018baby giraffe\u2019 in harsh review of UFC 324 performance<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pimblett suffered a beating at the hands of Justin Gaethje in the main event of UFC 324, and then over the weekend, Hooker was finished by Benoit Saint Denis. As you can imagine, there\u2019s now a lot of talk about the two possibly colliding in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/dan-hooker\/dan-hooker-explains-why-he-wont-chase-grudge-match-with-paddy-pimblett\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">real grudge match<\/a> for the ages.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent video, Pimblett gave his own thoughts on Hooker\u2019s loss to BSD.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Pimblett on Hooker\u2019s loss to Saint Denis at UFC 325<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGood scrap \u2013 nice to see Dan get TKO\u2019d after the sh*t he was chatting,\u201d Pimblett said on his YouTube channel. \u201cHe probably enjoyed me losing last week. That was probably a generational hate watch. I never got finished, though.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really like Benoit Saint Denis,\u201d Pimblett said. \u201cI think he\u2019s 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\u2019s next for me, he\u2019s getting finished.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Quotes via <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie-eu.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ufc\/2026\/02\/01\/paddy-pimblett-rips-dan-hooker-ufc-325-benoit-saint-denis-next\/88463285007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">MMA Junkie<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What do you make of Paddy Pimblett\u2019s reaction to Dan Hooker\u2019s latest setback? If the UFC did decide to book this fight at some point later this year, who would you back to pick up the win and why? Let us know your thoughts in the comments, BJPENN Nation!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paddy Pimblett has given his thoughts on Dan Hooker\u2019s loss at the hands of Benoit Saint Denis last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-453833","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\/453833","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=453833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}