Amid hyperlinks to a big-name combat in his return to motion subsequent yr, promotional excellent contender, Paddy Pimblett claims he fancies his probabilities of defeating former interim light-weight champion, Dustin Poirier in a future conflict — believing he would even submit the UFC star.
Pimblett, who at present boasts the quantity 13 rank within the official light-weight pile, has been sidelined since recording his sixth Octagon win again in July, that includes at UFC 304 in a dominant opening spherical triangle win over common-foe, King Inexperienced.
As for Poirier, the Lafayette native confirmed earlier this month how he plans to combat simply as soon as extra within the UFC, earlier than hanging up his storied gloves from fight sports activities competitors.
Paddy Pimblett claims he has what it takes to cease Dustin Poirier
Clearly Islam’s (Makhachev) sub [against Dustin Poirier] was good, nevertheless it’s only a D’Arce choke,” Paddy Pimblett stated on his YouTube channel. “I transitioned from a guillotine to a triangle to an armbar, from the feet. Still think Khamzat’s (Chimaev) sub was better. Khamzat against Robert Whittaker was a better submission. No one’s done that to Robert Whittaker. (Dustin) Poirier’s been submitted multiple times before. I’d submit Dustin Poirier. No one submitted Bobby [King] Green in like f*cking 12 years or whatever it was.”
In addition to a possible return in opposition to former title chaser, Chandler, Liverpool star, Paddy Pimblett has additionally been lined as much as combat with Benoit Saint-Denis subsequent, based on Renato Moicano — who stopped the Nimes native in the primary occasion of UFC Struggle Evening Paris again in September of this yr.
