Mateusz Gamrot is aware of he has a tricky process in entrance of him this weekend, however he would like to ultimately share the octagon with Paddy Pimblett.
Gamrot faces Ludovit Klein within the co-main occasion of Saturday’s UFC Vegas 107 occasion on the UFC APEX. The previous KSW champ is trying to bounce again from a split-decision loss to Dan Hooker within the Struggle of the Night time at UFC 305 this previous July.
Since Gamrot’s most up-to-date battle, so much has modified within the light-weight division — Islam Makhachev vacating the light-weight belt to maneuver to welterweight, Ilia Topuria getting set to face Charles Oliveira at UFC 317 for the vacant belt, and the surge of Pimblett following a lopsided stoppage win over Michael Chandler at UFC 314.
“The light-weight division is essentially the most harmful division and the perfect division,” Gamrot advised MMA Preventing. “Each month is shifting some issues, [and] Islam, I’m not shocked that he moved up. He beat all people from light-weight division so he needs to get the second belt
“However Paddy Pimblett, I don’t like this man. He talks an excessive amount of and he has a very easy strategy to to be this this place the place he’s a star. All people thinks he should battle for the title, however on the finish of the day, that is UFC choice and UFC, they select.
“For me, to be sincere, proper now, it’s focus [on] this battle and I wish to get the win, put a extremely good efficiency, and this 12 months I wish to keep lively. I wish to get the following battle after which if [my plans go the right way], this subsequent 12 months will probably be big for me.”
Pimblett stopped Chandler within the third spherical with vicious floor and pound on the UFC’s April pay-per-view. Whereas the efficiency of “The Baddy” opened up numerous eyes, Gamrot wasn’t shocked the battle went the best way that it did, and it’s principally due to the opposition.
“This was a great efficiency, however at all times you might have put good efficiency when the [fighter in] entrance of you is [going] backward, the man who’s doing nothing,” Gamrot stated. “The [best] Chandler was like 5 years, seven years in the past. However proper now, the man was really easy for him. I believe that Chandler is very easy for everyone now within the light-weight division. So I’m not shocked that he regarded like that.
“However I nonetheless suppose he’s a simple battle, Paddy Pimblett If he will get some actually good, high-level opponents, he will probably be have bother within the battle.”
Gamrot’s loss to Hooker snapped a three-fight win streak, and he enters the octagon on Saturday 7-2 in his previous 9 outings. Gamrot faces Klein, who has quietly put collectively a seven-fight unbeaten streak.
For Gamrot, he expects to have a large 2025 marketing campaign, and it begins with a win over Klein. Ultimately, he’d prefer to get to a battle with Pimblett to indicate followers that the rising star is probably not pretty much as good as they suppose.
“I believe [I’d be a nightmare for him],” Gamrot stated. “I’d love meet him in within the octagon, and sooner or later I believe that is going to occur. He’s [loves] putting proper now, however he’s a grappler, nice stylistic [fight] to me. After I meet him, that is going to be an awesome battle, however I believe I end him within the floor, for certain, as a result of he made numerous errors on the bottom, and I see this, and I’ve instruments to get the win.
“As a result of my earlier opponents had been at all times strikers, you already know, for my earlier opponents, the bottom was fireplace and I can present my finest on the bottom. But when I get somebody who [likes the] floor sport and he’s going to scramble with me, then bro, I’m actually harmful there.”
