Out with The Notorious, and in with The Baddy.<\/p>\n
The new low to which Conor McGregor\u2019s torpedoed combat sports career sunk<\/a> stole all the headlines, but Paddy Pimblett showed Saturday in the UFC 329 co-main event why he just might be the heir apparent as the promotion\u2019s most marketable star.<\/p>\n Paddy Pimblett exits the Octagon following his win in a lightweight fight during UFC 329 on Saturday in Las Vegas. Zuffa LLC<\/p>\n Pimblett somehow managed to get his highly capable opponent, Beno\u00eet Saint Denis, choked unconscious in less time than it took for a one-legged McGregor to be shut down by the referee in his deflating loss to Max Holloway. The Scouser stopped the Frenchman in just 52 seconds; Holloway was gifted with a win the moment the Irishman landed awkwardly throwing a foolish jumping high kick and blew out his knee<\/a> just three days before his 38th birthday, but officially it registered as a TKO at 1:09 of Round 1.<\/p>\n For all of his hype since arriving in the UFC five years ago, the build to this point had been slow. A steady diet of borderline major promotional talent and prospects got the ball rolling. Next came the mix of sturdy veterans and (past-prime) names; even Justin Gaethje nearly fit the latter category of mid-to-late-30s warriors, though the clubhouse leader for Fighter of the Year proved his mettle against Pimblett en route to claiming the undisputed lightweight crown last month against Ilia Topuria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Out with The Notorious, and in with The Baddy. The new low to which Conor McGregor\u2019s torpedoed combat…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":801936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,4736,786,785,85,735,787],"class_list":["post-801935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-conor-mcgregor","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus","tag-ufc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801935","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=801935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/801936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}