{"id":427197,"date":"2026-01-23T03:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T03:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/427197\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T03:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T03:09:08","slug":"ufc-324-press-conference-staredowns-gaethje-vs-pimblett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/427197\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC 324 press conference staredowns: Gaethje vs. Pimblett"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) held its official pre-fight press conference on Thurs. (watch here<\/a>) for the upcoming stacked first Paramount+ numbered event, UFC 324<\/a>, locked and loaded for this Sat. (Jan. 24, 2026) inside T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. All 10 main card fighters were on hand and came face-to-face following the press conference festivities, setting the tone for what promises to be a wild night of fights.<\/p>\n

That includes the night\u2019s headliners, as two-time title challenger Justin Gaethje squared off with surging No. 5-ranked contender<\/a> Paddy Pimblett. Gaethje is aiming to become a two-time interim Lightweight champion<\/a>, while Pimblett looks to continue his meteoric rise toward superstardom with the biggest win of his career.<\/p>\n

In the co-main event, former Bantamweight champion Sean O\u2019Malley went nose-to-nose with China\u2019s<\/a> Song Yadong, a bout that could have serious title implications at 135 pounds.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere on the card, Derrick Lewis \u2014 the UFC\u2019s all-time knockout leader and Heavyweight knockout king \u2014 faced off with surging contender Waldo Cortes-Acosta. Former two-time Strawweight champion <\/a>Rose Namajunas met No. 2-ranked Flyweight contender Natalia Silva, while Brazilian fan favorite Jean Silva stared down the always-durable Arnold Allen in what could be a sleeper Fight of the Night.<\/p>\n

Watch the staredowns below.<\/p>\n

To checkout the latest and greatest UFC 324 news and notes click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) held its official pre-fight press conference on Thurs. (watch here) for the upcoming stacked…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,82,153471,38378,702,3194],"class_list":["post-427197","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-press-conference","tag-ufc-news","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427197","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=427197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}