{"id":424136,"date":"2026-01-21T18:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T18:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/424136\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T18:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T18:30:08","slug":"dana-white-says-paddy-pimblett-reminds-him-of-the-conor-mcgregor-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/424136\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana White says Paddy Pimblett reminds him of the Conor McGregor story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-324-news-results-paramount-streaming-updates-mma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC 324<\/a> could serve as a coming-out party for Paddy Pimblett.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cPaddy\u2019s undefeated in UFC, never been knocked out,\u201c White told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PItApEDyI8U\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TMZ Sports<\/a>. \u201dHe reminds me of the Conor McGregor story. He came in with this great personality, and they were always overlooking him. Every time they fought, everybody believed they were going to lose.\u201c<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cPaddy has been that guy more so than Conor McGregor,\u201d White continued. \u201cThis is a huge test for him. Gaethje\u2019s been wanting a shot at the title, so here we go. Every time [Pimblett] fights, he\u2019s the underdog, and people think he\u2019s gonna lose.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">That\u2019s not even close to being accurate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For the rest of the UFC 324 fight card click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-fight-cards\/406095\/ufc-324-fight-card-start-time-date-location-gaethje-vs-pimblett\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC 324 could serve as a coming-out party for Paddy Pimblett. \u201cPaddy\u2019s undefeated in UFC, never been knocked&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,82,153471,139445,702,4454],"class_list":["post-424136","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-324","tag-ufc-on-paramount","tag-ufc-news","tag-upcoming-ufc-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424136","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=424136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}