{"id":814795,"date":"2026-07-21T17:29:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T17:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/814795\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T17:29:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T17:29:12","slug":"ilia-topuria-super-fan-debunks-paddy-pimbletts-claim-of-buying-ufc-white-house-stool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/814795\/","title":{"rendered":"Ilia Topuria super fan debunks Paddy Pimblett&#8217;s claim of buying UFC White House stool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/fighters\/paddy-pimblett\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Paddy Pimblett;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Paddy Pimblett&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Paddy Pimblett<\/a> has been caught red-handed!<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Pimblett expertly trolled <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/fighters\/ilia-topuria\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Ilia Topuria;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Ilia Topuria&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Ilia Topuria<\/a> (and everyone, for that matter) when he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DbBVfwVFaq1\/?img_index=2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:revealed on Instagram;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;revealed on Instagram&quot;}\" class=\"link \">revealed on Instagram<\/a> that he spent $13,700 on a UFC auction site to purchase the stool Topuria used when he lost his lightweight title to <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/fighters\/justin-gaethje\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Justin Gaethje;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Justin Gaethje&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Justin Gaethje<\/a> at UFC Freedom 250. It was that stool Topuria sat on when the fight was stopped after the fourth round because of the extensive damage he suffered at the hands of Gaethje.<\/p>\n<p>A &#8220;collector&#8217;s item&#8221; is what Pimblett called it in a post that included a photo of him smiling with a red UFC stool.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paddy Pimblett has been caught red-handed! On Monday, Pimblett expertly trolled Ilia Topuria (and everyone, for that matter)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":814796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,17499,8944,785,17498,85,787,263470],"class_list":["post-814795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-ilia-topuria","tag-justin-gaethje","tag-mma","tag-paddy-pimblett","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-freedom-250"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814795","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=814795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/814796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}