{"id":259089,"date":"2025-11-03T16:03:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T16:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/259089\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T16:03:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T16:03:17","slug":"manager-claims-dana-white-waiting-for-ufc-322-to-book-ilia-topuria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/259089\/","title":{"rendered":"Manager claims Dana White \u2018waiting\u2019 for UFC 322 to book Ilia Topuria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI think the UFC is waiting to see what happens with Islam (Makhachev) and [Jack Della Maddalena],\u201d Gaethje\u2019s manager Ali Abdelaziz told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QCTOmyJbQ2A\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Submission Radio<\/a>. \u201cAlso, I think the UFC is waiting to see what happens with Arman (Tsarukyan) and (Dan) Hooker. But I\u2019m telling you this: Justin Gaethje never breaks his word.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cIf [Gaethje] gets jumped by Paddy, he will retire [from competition] and he will never fight again in the UFC,\u201d Abdelaziz continued. \u201cJustin Gaethje keeps giving the UFC favor after favor after favor. What has Paddy Pimblett done for the UFC to deserve a Manager claims Dana White \u2018waiting\u2019 for UFC 322 to book Ilia Topuria shot over Justin Gaethje?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cArman has to be next because this guy is deserving,\u201d Makhachev told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MxQ2MmkJyiA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN<\/a>. \u201cHe made a mistake when he was supposed to fight me but he\u2019s still number one in the division and he has to fight for the title. Maybe Arman, maybe Gaethje, but not Paddy. Paddy beat who? Tony Ferguson \u2026 who else did he beat? (Michael) Chandler, everybody beat Chandler. He can do some things but honestly, it\u2019s not a big challenge for Topuria.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Pimblett doesn\u2019t agree.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI\u2019d absolutely smash his face in for him,\u201d Pimblett told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=S6flaPF23XQ\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James Sweetnam<\/a>. \u201cI can see me beating him anywhere the fight goes to be honest. People put him on a pedestal now, they think he\u2019s this big amazing thing, when I\u2019ll bring him crashing back down to earth in a big way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Expect UFC matchmakers to make their decision by the end of the month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI think the UFC is waiting to see what happens with Islam (Makhachev) and [Jack Della Maddalena],\u201d Gaethje\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,82,702,4454],"class_list":["post-259089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news","tag-upcoming-ufc-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}