{"id":798020,"date":"2026-07-13T17:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T17:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/798020\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T17:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T17:54:08","slug":"sugar-sean-omalleys-coach-tim-welch-demonstrates-paddy-pimbletts-submission-against-benoit-saint-denis-at-ufc-329","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/798020\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Sugar&#8221; Sean O&#8217;Malley&#8217;s coach Tim Welch demonstrates Paddy Pimblett&#8217;s submission against Benoit Saint Denis at UFC 329"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Welch, the longtime head coach of &#8220;Sugar&#8221; Sean O&#8217;Malley, has displayed the sharp technique Paddy Pimblett used to stop Benoit Saint Denis at UFC 329. <\/p>\n<p>England&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/mmasucka.com\/..\/..\/fighters\/paddy-pimblett\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paddy Pimblett<\/a> appears to have earned words of high praise from Tim Welch, the longtime head coach of former <a href=\"https:\/\/mmasucka.com\/..\/..\/ufc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC<\/a> bantamweight champion &#8220;Sugar&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/mmasucka.com\/..\/..\/fighters\/sean-o-malley\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sean O&#8217;Malley<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Welch, who himself has competed as a professional MMA fighter, has put forth a demonstration, showing fight fans his breakdown of Pimblett&#8217;s brilliant maneuvering in the British fighter&#8217;s latest octagon appearance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Paddy &#8220;The Baddy&#8221; Pimblett scored a scary submission win over Benoit Saint Denis at UFC 329<\/p>\n<p>Paddy &#8220;The Baddy&#8221; Pimblett is fresh off a first-round submission victory against France&#8217;s Benoit Saint Denis in their lightweight matchup that transpired at UFC 329 this past Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>The fight witnessed Pimblett, who&#8217;s regarded as a grappling maestro, seemingly put his fearsome foe to sleep and secure the first-round technical submission win via a Peruvian necktie.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The performance elicited considerable praise for Pimblett from a number of fans and experts in the MMA community, who highlighted the Liverpudlian&#8217;s sheer ferocity and sharp technique.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There were also concerns about Saint Denis&#8217;s well-being after the scary submission, but he regained consciousness soon thereafter.<\/p>\n<p>Pimblett subsequently reaffirmed that his quest to compete for and capture the UFC lightweight title, currently belonging to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mmasucka.com\/..\/..\/fighters\/justin-gaethje\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Justin Gaethje<\/a>, who outpointed him earlier this year, continues.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sugar&#8221; Sean O&#8217;Malley&#8217;s trainer Tim Welch displayed Paddy Pimblett&#8217;s crafty maneuvering in UFC 329 win<\/p>\n<p>In the aftermath of UFC 329, &#8220;Sugar&#8221; Sean O&#8217;Malley&#8217;s trainer and friend, Tim Welch, broke down Paddy Pimblett&#8217;s incredible win over Benoit Saint Denis.<\/p>\n<p>Taking to his YouTube channel, Welch &#8212; whose star pupil O&#8217;Malley is himself <a href=\"https:\/\/mmasucka.com\/..\/..\/news\/sugar-sean-omalley-recounts-his-epic-walk-off-tko-at-ufc-freedom-250-against-aiemann-zahabi\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">seeking to reclaim<\/a> UFC bantamweight gold &#8212; was all praise for Pimblett.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Presently, Pimblett stands at the No. 9 spot, whereas Saint Denis is at No. 5 in the UFC lightweight division on the official Meta UFC Rankings. That is, of course, set to change in the next rankings update, given the outcome of their recent fight.<\/p>\n<p>Welch alluded to their current ranking differential and indicated that the English combatant impressively bested his higher-ranked French rival.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, Welch asserted that Saint Denis applied pressure right from the get-go and whipped up a headkick. He then dived into a takedown, which Pimblett brilliantly responded to.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Demonstrating the sequences with a training partner, Welch explained, &#8220;He (Paddy Pimblett) didn&#8217;t just grab the neck and jump for a guillotine. He used the head-only guillotine to sprawl his legs back, circle him off the cage, and really threaten this guillotine <a href=\"https:\/\/mmasucka.com\/..\/..\/deep\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">deep<\/a>.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Welch underscored that Saint Denis started rolling to break free of Pimblett&#8217;s grasp but was stopped craftily.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Welch added, &#8220;Benoit rolled all the way to his knees, and (Paddy) sunk in this just beautiful, beautiful D&#8217;Arce, Paddy Pimblett did. Started squeezing the D&#8217;Arce.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He continued, &#8220;And notice my left arm&#8217;s really deep. That&#8217;s how you know this D&#8217;Arce choke&#8217;s tight. So Paddy ended up sitting in like more of a Peruvian necktie D&#8217;Arce choke here and pass Benoit Saint Denis out; took him out.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As of this time, the official verdict of Paddy Pimblett&#8217;s win over Benoit Saint Denis at UFC 329 is credited to have come by way of a Peruvian necktie.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, Welch implied that there was an element of the D&#8217;Arce choke utilized, with both the D&#8217;Arce and the Peruvian necktie being front headlock submission moves notably taught in the martial art of BJJ.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Watch Tim Welch demonstrate Paddy Pimblett&#8217;s technique from UFC 329 below:\u00a0<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tim Welch, the longtime head coach of &#8220;Sugar&#8221; Sean O&#8217;Malley, has displayed the sharp technique Paddy Pimblett used&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":798021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,362682,786,785,17498,13421,85,192752,787,329234],"class_list":["post-798020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-benoit-st-denis","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-paddy-pimblett","tag-sean-omalley","tag-sports","tag-tim-welch","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-329-mcgregor-vs-holloway-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798020","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=798020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/798021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}