Paddy Pimblett trashes top lightweight contenders

When lightweight contender Paddy Pimblett was at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas earlier this month to support teammate Nathan Fletcher fighting on the UFC Vegas 108 fight card, he kept getting asked the same question. 

"All I kept getting asked this weekend was,'Who are you fighting? When are you fighting Ilia? When are you fighting Ilia?' I have no idea," Pimblett said on his YouTube channel. 

Lightweight champion Ilia Topuria and Pimblett have history. They got into a physical altercation at the fighter hotel in London during UFC Fight Night 204 fight week in March 2022. The also two nearly came to blows at the UFC 282 Press Conference later that year. It's a fight both Topuria and Pimblett want but "The Baddy" admits that there are others more deserving of a title shot. 

"Hopefully it is going to be me versus the chorizo next. I think that's what all the Americans want because every American I bumped into keeps saying, 'When are you going to smash that sausage's head in?' I'm hoping that gets sorted. But I understand that I am like rank 9 or something, so other people probably are more deserving, but posh boy (Arman Tsarukyan) definitely isn't," Pimblett said.

The 30 year-old Brit took aim at most of the top contenders in the 155-pound weight class. 

"Little rich boy Arman showing how desperate he is offering him (Topuria) a million pounds to fight him. Spoiled rich baby. Trying to pay his way out of things. That's why he quit when he was making weight in a bath like a little b*tch," Pimblett said. "Arman is irrelevant. No one cares about him."

"As I always say, I've got nothing but respect for Justin [Gaethje], but I keep seeing in interviews him saying he doesn't want to fight me. I think the only fight other than make is me and Ilia," Pimblett continued. 

"Seen Dan Hooker talking sh*t the other day, as well. I used to like Dan Hooker. Now you can eat sh*t."