As he recently predicted, Paddy Pimblett could be close to a title shot.
Former featherweight champ Ilia Topuria fights Charles Oliveira for the vacant lightweight title in the main event of UFC 317 on Saturday in Las Vegas. Pimblett and Topuria share a rivalry that started with “The Baddy’s” controversial comments about Georgia. Matters came to a head when they ran across each other ahead of a UFC Fight Night in London in March 2022, and Pimblett threw a bottle of hand sanitizer at the Georgian-Spaniard.
The two have since traded multiple barbs on social media over the years.