{"id":55159,"date":"2025-08-09T10:21:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T10:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/55159\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T10:21:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T10:21:07","slug":"he-quit-paddy-pimblett-goes-off-on-arman-tsarukyan-and-ilia-topuria-provides-ufc-opponent-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/55159\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018He quit\u2019 – Paddy Pimblett goes off on Arman Tsarukyan and Ilia Topuria, provides UFC opponent update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Paddy Pimblett has continued to torment every lightweight in the division.<\/p>\n

The Scouse MMA star has had no shortage of run-ins with the best of the division, including his Octagon confrontation with Ilia Topuria<\/a>, as he inserted himself into the title picture following his dominant stoppage victory over Michael Chandler.<\/p>\n

However, \u2018The Baddy\u2019 has been at odds with the second-ranked contender, Arman Tsarukyan, exchanging words on interviews with the Armenian claiming Pimblett should be deleted from the rankings<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"IliaPhoto by Jeff Bottari\/Zuffa LLC<\/p>\n

\u2018El Matador, though, has not helped his title situation, claiming he\u2019d rather give up the belt than face Tsarukyan, which drew criticism from a UFC legend<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Paddy Pimblett goes in on \u2018posh boy\u2019 Arman Tsarukyan and UFC champion Ilia Topuria<\/p>\n

Liverpool\u2019s UFC<\/a> star has once again fired back on social media with a new video posted to his channel, where he cleared the air on who and when he was going to fight next, not without multiple shots aimed at the champion.<\/p>\n

On his next fight, he said: \u201cI have no idea. Hopefully, it is gonna be me versus the chorizo (Ilia) next.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that\u2019s what all the Americans want, because every American I bump into keeps saying: \u2018When are you gonna smash that sausage\u2019s head in?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Their feud began before the Spaniard had his hands on the championship belt when they had a heated altercation in a hotel lobby, where hand sanitizer was thrown, before the London Fight Night between Tom Aspinall<\/a> and Alexander Volkov.<\/p>\n

His tirade did not end there, with most of the venom saved for rival \u2018Ahalkalakets\u2019, whom he snubbed as a potential opponent.<\/p>\n

\u201cI understand that I am ranked number nine or something, so other people probably are more deserving,\u201d Paddy said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut posh boy definitely isn\u2019t; little rich boy Arman, showing how desperate he is, offering another \u00a31m to fight (Topuria). Spoilt, rich baby, trying to pay their way out of things.\u201d<\/p>\n

The MMA fighter even referred to the 28-year-old pulling out of the UFC 311 main event in January against Islam Makachev after suffering a back injury during a weight cut.<\/p>\n

He exclaimed: \u201cThat\u2019s why he quit when he was making weight in the bath like a little b- \u2013 -h. Arman\u2019s irrelevant, no one cares about him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Paddy Pimblett dismisses UFC star he \u2018used to like\u2019<\/p>\n

While the 30-year-old has been focused on a title showdown with his rival, the Gaethje fight was still of interest to him over any other lightweight.<\/p>\n

However, \u2018The Highlight\u2019 has said in interviews that he does not want to fight the UK fighter; he only has eyes on the division\u2019s top prize.<\/p>\n

Another man vying for his place is Dan Hooker, who blasted a title shot for the UK fighter as a \u2018p- \u2013 \u2013 t- \u2013 -\u2019, which Pimblett did not take kindly.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cI seen Dan Hooker talking s- \u2013 \u2013 the other day as well. I used to like Dan Hooker. Now you can eat s- \u2013 -.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lightweight has become a division to keep an eye on with the depth of talent looking to dethrone a dominant champion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paddy Pimblett has continued to torment every lightweight in the division. The Scouse MMA star has had no…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[17501,64,63,786,17499,785,17498,85,787],"class_list":["post-55159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-arman-tsarukyan","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-ilia-topuria","tag-mma","tag-paddy-pimblett","tag-sports","tag-ufc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55159","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=55159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}