UFC fans think Paddy \u201cthe Baddy\u201d Pimblett has leaked who he will fight next as he looks to return to winning ways after suffering his first defeat in the promotion against Justin Gaethje in January.<\/p>\n
Pimblett<\/a> boasted a perfect UFC<\/a> record of seven wins from as many fights before losing by unanimous decision to Gaethje for the interim UFC lightweight strap at UFC 324 back in January.<\/p>\n Gaethje will headline the UFC Freedom 250 card as he challenges Ilia Topuria for the undisputed lightweight title on June 15, while Pimblett has suggested he will return to the Octagon during International Fight Week on July 11.<\/p>\n Over the weekend, Pimblett shared several snaps of himself with UFC welterweights Ko Seok Hyeon and Dong Hyun Kim at Next Generation Gym, alongside the caption: \u201cGreat to have @stungunkim and @ko.seokhyeon in the gym today, some perfect rounds for me with some southpaws \ud83d\udc40.<\/p>\n \u201cThey\u2019ll be back with us sooner rather than later @nextgenmmalpool.<\/p>\n \u201cCan\u2019t wait to get over to Korea with them too \u2013 keep an eye out on mine and the Stun Gun\u2019s YouTube channels for the videos we\u2019re going to drop.\u201d<\/p>\n The mention of southpaws prompted fans to speculate on the Scouser\u2019s next opponent. Dan Hooker and Renato Moicano are two UFC stars who have been linked with a potential fight with Pimblett, although the mention of southpaws may appear to rule the pair out, as they are both orthodox.<\/p>\n Several fans took to social media to suggest that France\u2019s Beno\u00eet Saint-Denis may be Pimblett\u2019s next opponent.<\/p>\n One said: \u201cObviously, BSD lol.<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s no other southpaw that he\u2019d logically be fighting.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd Beno\u00eet has teased he\u2019s fighting an Englishman next.\u201d<\/p>\n Another added: \u201cI\u2019ve been banging this drum about Pimblett vs Beno\u00eet Saint-Denis constantly since his loss to Justin Gaethje in January. I have Pimblett winning \u2013 big fan of this match-up when announced.\u201d<\/p>\n A third commented: \u201cBSD vs Paddy is already official \u2013 what more are you looking for?\u201d<\/p>\n Saint-Denis boasts a UFC record of nine wins and three losses, with the Frenchman beating Dan Hooker by TKO last time out at UFC 325 back in February.<\/p>\n The 30-year-old is currently on a four-fight win streak, also beating Beneil Dariush, Mauricio Ruffy and Kyle Prepolec in the last year.<\/p>\n Pimblett has previously made clear that he\u2019d be willing to fight his fellow European when speaking back in February.<\/p>\n “It pissed me off that Saint-Denis moved above me for beating Dan Hooker,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cWhy has he moved above me for beating Dan Hooker? What’s gone on there?<\/p>\n “I will fight anyone, whichever name gets sent to me on a contract, I sign it and fight them. But Saint-Denis sounds like a good fight to me. Europe’s two best lightweights going against each other.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC fans think Paddy \u201cthe Baddy\u201d Pimblett has leaked who he will fight next as he looks to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":631800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,40592,641,9577,638,15502,82,640],"class_list":{"0":"post-631799","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-dan-hooker","11":"tag-fighting","12":"tag-justin-gaethje","13":"tag-mma","14":"tag-paddy-pimblett","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-ufc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631799","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=631799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}