{"id":756140,"date":"2026-06-23T16:15:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T16:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/756140\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T16:15:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T16:15:11","slug":"is-justin-gaethje-a-dirty-fighter-ufc-329s-paddy-pimblett-blames-eye-gouges-and-low-blows-for-highlight-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/756140\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Justin Gaethje a dirty fighter? UFC 329\u2019s Paddy Pimblett blames \u2018eye gouges\u2019 and \u2018low blows\u2019 for \u2018Highlight\u2019 loss"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cI went five rounds with Gaethje and was pushing the pace to the very end, I didn\u2019t quit,\u201d Pimblett said on YouTube<\/a>. \u201cI kept coming forward trying to finish the fight. And I think I won [rounds] three and five, so he beat me 3-2. One of the judges agreed. And if a lot of different things didn\u2019t happen in that fight like eye gouges and low blows and then faking low blows, then it would have been a different fight. We\u2019ve got to get on with it now. No point crying over spilled milk. I just hope I get to fight again. As I say, he\u2019s the undisputed champion now. I went five rounds with the undisputed champion of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTo be honest, I don\u2019t think [Saint Denis fight is] a No. 1 contender fight, but I think Arman\u2019s probably still No. 1 contender,\u201d Pimblett continued. \u201cBut Justin said himself that Charles [Oliveira] has beaten him before so he\u2019d like to fight Charles again. Charles could end up getting the title shot. Perfect time to make Ilia vs. Arman because Arman\u2019s been calling Ilia out for years. But there\u2019s so many different variables in the lightweight division now, you don\u2019t know. I\u2019d love to beat BSD and get a rematch with Justin, but I can\u2019t really demand that after a one-fight win streak, so we\u2019ll just have to see what happens over the coming weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n

For the rest of the UFC 329 fight card and Paramount+<\/a> lineup click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI went five rounds with Gaethje and was pushing the pace to the very end, I didn\u2019t quit,\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":756141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,82,153471,702],"class_list":["post-756140","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-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756140","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=756140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/756141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}