{"id":83669,"date":"2025-08-20T12:29:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T12:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/83669\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T12:29:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T12:29:08","slug":"paddy-pimblett-just-jumped-two-spots-up-the-lightweight-rankings-to-no-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/83669\/","title":{"rendered":"Paddy Pimblett just jumped two spots up the lightweight rankings to No. 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">And just like that, Paddy Pimblett has moved up from the No. 9 ranking at lightweight to No. 7.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The change occurred on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-events-ppv\/383767\/top-5-khamzat-crashes-pound-for-pound-leaderboard-latest-ufc-rankings-update-mma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tuesday morning\u2019s rankings update,<\/a> and few people noticed because no ranked lightweights were fighting at last weekend\u2019s UFC 319. But that didn\u2019t stop the 155 pound rankings from abruptly shifting and bumping \u201cThe Baddy\u201d up two spots.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">So how did this happen? Mateusz Gamrot and Beneil Dariush both dropped one spot in the rankings, allowing Pimblett to move up two. There\u2019s no clear indication of why that happened, though. Gamrot last competed at a May UFC Fight Night, beating Ludovit Klein. Beneil Dariush won his UFC 317 fight in June against Renato Moicano.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2024\/10\/2\/24260149\/dana-white-on-broken-ufc-rankings-system-a-i-will-be-here-soon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">we\u2019ve mentioned many times<\/a> when the current rankings system has spat out nonsensical changes, the rankings are generated by ballots submitted by a mishmash of random local radio and TV outlets, with a few MMA websites (some of them defunct) mixed in. It\u2019s kind of shocking that they still work as well as they do given how out of date the panel is.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Perhaps they got swept up in the Paddy Pimblett vs. Ilia Topuria hype that is reportedly sweeping through America right now. \u201cThe Baddy\u201d was in America two weeks ago to corner Nathan Fletcher at UFC Vegas 108. He said questions about a potential title fight against \u201cEl Matador\u201d were endless.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cAll I got asked this weekend was, \u2018When are you fighting again, when are you fighting Ilia?\u2019\u201d he said on his YouTube channel. \u201cI have no idea. Hopefully it is going to be me vs. the chorizo next.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI think that\u2019s all the Americans want because every American I\u2019ve bumped into keeps saying, \u2018When are you going to smash that sausage\u2019s head in.\u2019 I\u2019m hoping that gets sorted, but I understand that I am ranked No. 9 or something.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">While Pimblett got a post-UFC 317 bump when Joe Rogan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/7\/2\/24460372\/joe-rogan-blamed-botched-face-off-between-ilia-topuria-paddy-pimblett-ufc-317-not-sport-this-is-wwe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">called him into the cage<\/a> to face off with Topuria, he admitted his chances of locking up the next shot against Ilia were iffy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cOther people are probably more deserving, but posh boy definitely isn\u2019t &#8212; little rich boy Arman [Tsarukyan],\u201d he said. \u201cShowing how desperate he is, offering [Ilia] a million pounds to fight him. Spoiled rich baby trying to pay their way out of things. That\u2019s why he quit when he was making weight in a bath like a little b*tch. Arman\u2019s irrelevant, no one cares about him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI got nothing but respect for Justin [Gaethje] but I keep seeing in interviews he doesn\u2019t want to fight me \u2026 Seen Dan Hooker talking sh*t the other day as well. I used to like Dan Hooker. Now you can eat sh*t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Now it\u2019s all up to the UFC and Topuria to agree on someone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI think the only fight to make is me and Ilia,\u201d Pimblett concluded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Will his sudden bump up to No. 7 in the rankings help solidify that opinion?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"And just like that, Paddy Pimblett has moved up from the No. 9 ranking at lightweight to No.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82,50095,702],"class_list":["post-83669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-rankings","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83669","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=83669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}