Paddy Pimblett will be waiting.
“The perfect fight for me would be Conor,” Pimblett said. “It’s mad to be honest because I think … obviously I won seven fights in a row and I don’t think that my stock went up as much as losing my last fight. You know, I beat people like Michael Chandler, Bobby Green, Tony Ferguson and people are just like, meh, and then I’ve got me head punched in five rounds and my stock went up. I lost but my stock went up because I had a five-round war with a legend like Justin Gaethje but I want that back, you know what I mean? I want to fight him again before he retires. It’s time to get back in the win column.”
“Benoit moved above me in the rankings for beating Dan Hooker which I thought was quite silly because Dan Hooker’s terrible,” Pimblett added. “He went above me for beating Dan Hooker so I thought that’s the perfect fight. I’m [ranked] six, he’s five. I think I’m better than him everywhere the fight goes. I’ll prove that on July 11th. Mad being on the same card as Conor McGregor, you know what I mean? The biggest name in the sport. It’s nice for him to be back. This is probably going to be the most watched UFC of all time. I’m not going to be the star of the show on this one, definitely not. Conor is, but I’ll probably be the second star of the show.”
Naturally, none of this matters unless both McGregor (22-6) and Pimblett (23-4) emerge victorious.
“If McGregor wins and I win, I want to fight again before the end of the year,” Pimblett said. “I’ll fight him at welterweight in MSG, something like that. We’ve got to let everything unfold, you don’t know what’s going to happen. Conor’s got to beat Max, I’ve got to beat BSD. Anything can happen. As we know, fighting sports, one punch, anything can change the whole realm of the game. It can change the butterfly effect, it can change everything for every other opponent.”
