Pimblett already let it slip he\u2019s locked in for UFC 329 in Las Vegas, but he\u2019s been keeping quiet about who he\u2019s facing. That didn\u2019t last long though, because Benoit Saint-Denis just dropped a pretty cheeky hint online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Saint-Denis posted an AI-style Instagram clip where he\u2019s flipping through a restaurant menu \u2014 except every item is one of his past opponents turned into a burger. Mauricio Ruffy shows up as Brazilian beef with salsa, Beneil Dariush gets labeled as some \u201cnever seen the light of day\u201d beef, and Dan Hooker is basically a thinly pounded cut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then comes the interesting one \u2014 \u201cLe Rosbeef.\u201d<\/strong> That\u2019s roast beef\u2026 aka the classic English stereotype.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now connect the dots. Pimblett\u2019s a Liverpool lad, and there aren\u2019t exactly loads of British names sitting high up in the lightweight rankings. Fans didn\u2019t need long to figure out what Saint-Denis was getting at.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Right now, Saint-Denis is sitting at number five in the division, while Pimblett is coming off a rough night after taking his first UFC loss against Justin Gaethje at UFC 324. That was a five-round war for the interim belt, and it didn\u2019t go his way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If this hint is legit, UFC 329 could be his bounce-back \u2014 but it won\u2019t be an easy one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And honestly, that card is already looking stacked. Conor McGregor is heavily linked to making his return there, with Dana White saying talks are moving in the right direction. On top of that, Daniel Rodriguez has mentioned a fight with Leon Edwards, and rising heavyweight Gable Steveson is already confirmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If that \u201cmenu hint\u201d turns out to be real, Pimblett vs Saint-Denis might quietly be one of the most interesting fights on the whole card.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Paddy was also recently talking to to IFLtv and had some harsh words for his previous opponent Justin Gaethje : <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI\u2019m gonna be back and someone\u2019s getting muftied. I\u2019m coming back for revenge after I lost my last fight. It\u2019s one of them. Everyone loses and that\u2019s how you learn. It\u2019s how you get better. I probably learned more from losing that fight than winning seven other UFC fights, but I\u2019ll be back better and stronger. And everyone\u2019s gonna see.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI\u2019ve always said it\u2019s in me destiny that I\u2019m gonna be the world champion, and I will. At some point in your career you need a loss to realize stuff, and I think that was that point in my career. And hopefully I get the rematch with Gaethje, I got nothing but respect for him but he\u2019s a dirty bastard poking me in the eyes. So I really hope we get that rematch some day.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Looks like Paddy Pimblett might\u2019ve just had his next opponent basically teased\u2026 and not in the usual way \u2014 this one came straight off a \u201cmenu.\u201d Pimblett already let it slip he\u2019s locked in for UFC 329 in Las Vegas,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2,10,11,5,4,3],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-paddy","tag-pimblett","tag-robbietalksmma","tag-ufc","tag-watchingfights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchingfights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchingfights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchingfights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchingfights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchingfights.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/watchingfights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38,"href":"https:\/\/watchingfights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/38"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchingfights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchingfights.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchingfights.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchingfights.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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