Following his UFC 300 win over Jim Miller, Bobby Inexperienced used his time on the microphone to name out Paddy Pimblett. Pimblett responded accepting the problem, and UFC matchmakers booked the combat. The 2 conflict on the UFC 304 primary card on July 27 in Manchester, England.
Inexperienced (32–15–1, 1 NC) will enter the bout ranked fifteenth within the 155-pound rankings. A win would put Pimblett (21-3) within the rankings and lengthen his profitable streak to eight consecutive fights. Former two-division UFC champion Henry Cejudo gave his prediction for bout’s final result on his YouTube channel and was stunned Pimblett accepted the match.
“I am really stunned Paddy Pimblett took this combat, however it was about time. It is his sixth combat and now it is time for him to combat any person that is really value a rattling,” mentioned Cejudo.
“Bobby Inexperienced is harmful, not simply together with his putting, however his takedown protection. If Paddy Piimblett can’t take this dude down, if it simply comes right down to the toes, this man proper right here (Bobby Inexperienced) goes to pack him up,” Cejudo continued. “I am going with Bobby Inexperienced as a result of I simply really feel prefer it’s an excessive amount of. I assure you the UFC put the strain on a man like Paddy Pimblett. ‘Hey man, you have to combat any person. We are able to solely promote you for thus lengthy earlier than individuals simply begin getting sick of you.’ I believe that is the place they’re on to.
“I simply assume, Bobby Inexperienced, his putting is simply too rattling good. His takedown protection is simply too rattling good. And I simply really feel like that is the place the combat’s going to go then I’ve to go along with the man that has higher putting. So, I am betting the home on Bobby Inexperienced.”
UFC 304 takes place at Co-Op Stay. Will probably be the firth time the combat promotion has held an occasion in Manchester. The combat card is headlined by a welterweight title bout between champion Leon Edwards and second-ranked Belal Muhammad. The interim heavyweight championship is on the road within the co-main occasion with interim titleholder Tom Aspinall defending the belt in opposition to fourth-ranked Curtis Blaydes.
