{"id":429306,"date":"2026-01-25T17:03:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T17:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/429306\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T17:03:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T17:03:11","slug":"ilia-topuria-mocks-paddy-pimblett-after-brutal-ufc-324-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/429306\/","title":{"rendered":"Ilia Topuria Mocks Paddy Pimblett After Brutal UFC 324 Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cEl Matador\u201d has spoken \u2014 and he didn\u2019t hold back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">U.K. star Paddy Pimblett suffered the first loss of his Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) career in the main event of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-324-news-results-paramount-streaming-updates-mma\/414187\/ufc-324-live-results-highlights-play-by-play-gaethje-vs-pimblett\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC 324<\/a> last night (Sat., Jan. 24, 2026), as he was battered over five grueling rounds by now two-time interim Lightweight champion Justin Gaethje inside T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-324-news-results-paramount-streaming-updates-mma\/417228\/watch-ufc-324-video-highlights-results-paramount-mma-las-vegas-gaethje-pimblett-fight-of-the-year\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">watch highlights<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The loss snapped Pimblett\u2019s nine-fight win streak and halted what had been the biggest momentum push of his career, as a victory would have almost certainly earned him a massive title unification bout \u2014 and a career-defining payday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Pimblett\u2019s long-time archenemy and reigning UFC Lightweight champion Ilia Topuria wasted no time reacting to the result on social media, delivering a ruthless message aimed squarely at \u201cThe Baddy,\u201d but also took a shot at Gaethje as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cLittle sausage, the only thing you had to do was beat a 38-year-old guy,\u201d Topuria wrote. \u201cYou just lost the biggest paycheck of your life. You were going to get rich if you won. Justin, all I can say is congratulations\u2026 and I\u2019d like to tell you to get ready, but you\u2019re screwed no matter what.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For now, Topuria gets the last laugh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For complete UFC 324 results, coverage, and highlights click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/e\/414187\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cEl Matador\u201d has spoken \u2014 and he didn\u2019t hold back. U.K. star Paddy Pimblett suffered the first loss&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[50994,99,203902,203903,10080,19364],"class_list":{"0":"post-429306","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-ufc-324","11":"tag-ufc-on-paramount","12":"tag-ufc-news","13":"tag-ufc-results"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}