Paddy Pimblett's Rise in UFC and Future Fight Options

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Jul 17, 2026
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Paddy is gonna try to fill that void of Connor and Paddy's like all on the new face of the UFC now
It's like nah. No, you're not quite yet
but you're popular and
The more you win the more popular you will get people like winners and it was super impressive what Paddy Pimblett did
Right BSD is a badass, dude
Let's call it out for what it is that wasn't like a fluke win due to injury or anything like that. He subbed them
You know is unfortunate that BSD walked right into it like that and it happened like that
But
That's the thing with Pimblett that you have to give him credit for and we've talked about it that you know a lot
The Eastern Europeans are good wrestlers, right? But the Brits the Irish the Scots and stuff the Australians. They don't really wrestle, right?
they're more brawlers and
It's impressive that Pimblett does have a complete game as you can't dispute. He has a complete game
I mean like he said he goes I'm like an effing spider down there. He kind of was like
You know, so I've gained a lot of respect you got it, you know
Give him respect for his toughness against Gaethje and give him respect for beating BSD
but like I said seems to me they're like Holloway and Gaethje makes the most sense next and
as far as Paddy Pimblett's next opponent, they do have odds up here and
Teporia
Right, like if you're all that but that's a tough fight
like you know, I mean like the UFC they're out of there out of crossroads here with all these guys where
Because the the Eastern European dudes like they all those guys they can't sell right no one knows who they are
Hardcores, they can't sell so like they need like sort of marketable guys
Gaethje's marketable. He's a little older
but like
You know
They want to make they want to build Paddy up and make some money off of him over the next couple of years max a
Little older as well. I don't think they'll make that fight. But to me, that's the one that makes the most sense
Justin Gaethje fights Max Holloway Paddy Pimblett fights Teporia and then the winners fight each other after and
Nobody's getting a free pass in this
Right, like it's like listen, dude. You already fought him. You fight, you know, you all felt like you can't say
Oh, this is sort of unfair. Look at a fight. I got to get four title shots like no
Yeah, I mean Gaethje beat Teporia and he beat you
Right. So like if the I'm speaking of Paddy Pimblett
Like if you're talking to Paddy Pimblett about this like now, you don't get the title shot right away
Right, you lost you just lost to Gaethje. You've got one win
Teporia was the kingpin. He's coming off a loss. He could argue for like a rematch
You two should fight each other and then the winner gets the title shot after against the winner of Gaethje and Holloway after I
Think that's like that's that's the most sense
And from a betting perspective Max Holloway to fight Justin Gaethje next is plus 225 and
Paddy Pimblett's next opponent to be Ilya Teporia is plus 350
