{"id":553003,"date":"2026-03-22T10:05:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T10:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/553003\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T10:05:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T10:05:13","slug":"ufc-paddy-pimblett-wants-to-make-return-in-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/553003\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC: Paddy Pimblett wants to make return in July"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paddy Pimblett is targeting a return to fighting in the UFC in July during the MMA promotion’s international fight week.<\/p>\n

The UFC will hold the yearly event on 11 July at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

Pimblett, 31, is still recovering from his defeat by Justin Gaethje<\/a> in January but was cageside for UFC London on Saturday, where his team-mate Luke Riley<\/a> was competing.<\/p>\n

As Dana White was giving his post-fight news conference, he asked a present Pimblett when he wanted to fight again, to which the Liverpudlian replied: “Hopefully international fight week.”<\/p>\n

The UFC is yet to announce any fights for the tent-pole summer event, but White replied: “Whenever he wants to fight, we’d love to have him back.”<\/p>\n

Pimblett missed the opportunity to fight long-time rival Ilia Topuria when he lost to Gaethje in their interim title fight in Vegas.<\/p>\n

USA fighter Gaethje is now booked to face the returning champion Topuria at UFC White House on 14 June<\/a> in Washington.<\/p>\n

There are a number of options for Pimblett on his return to action, with Charles Oliveira, Benoit Saint-Denis and Dan Hooker all in the top 10 of the lightweight rankings.<\/p>\n

Pimblett’s defeat by Gaethje was his first in the UFC and his first loss since 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paddy Pimblett is targeting a return to fighting in the UFC in July during the MMA promotion’s international…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":553004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":["post-553003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553003","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=553003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}