Paddy Pimblett is rooting for Ilia Topuria to turn into light-weight champion this month.
Topuria faces former champ Charles Oliveira for the vacant title in the primary occasion of UFC 317 on June 28 in Las Vegas. Pimblett, who’s on a tear, and coming off of the most important win of his profession towards Michael Chandler at UFC 314, believes Topuria is aware of good enterprise and, ought to he defeat Oliveira, he’ll probably name for a combat towards “The Baddy.”
Pimblett mentioned this throughout a dialog with UFC interim champ Tom Aspinall.
“If Ilia wins and says he desires to combat me, the UFC will make that combat as a result of they understand it’s a cash combat,” Pimblett stated on Aspinall’s YouTube channel. “That’s a kind of fights there’ll be a f*cking world press tour like McGregor-Aldo.
“I do know I’d beat him. [It’s] humorous as a result of I get laughed at for it. However I do know I beat him. We’ve already talked about sport plans to beat him, and I understand how to beat him.”
Topuria and Pimblett have fairly the historical past of lodge run-ins, and press convention near-skirmishes. However now that they formally share the identical division, that is definitely a combat that might generate a whole lot of buzz.
For Pimblett, it isn’t about getting a giant pay day and having his face on a poster: He really believes that not solely would he beat Topuria, he’d do it in a lopsided style.
“Nobody goes for his weaknesses when he fights them,” Pimblett defined. “Everybody simply determined to have a boxing match with him. I’m not going to return out and have a boxing match with him, I’m going to beat him with my all-around MMA sport.
“As I stated, I do know I’d beat him up, and I reckon I correct damage him, and simply shut everybody up much more — like I like to do.”
