{"id":28098,"date":"2026-09-15T18:06:58","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T18:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/?p=28098"},"modified":"2026-09-15T18:06:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T18:06:58","slug":"henry-cejudo-becomes-latest-fighter-to-suggest-ilia-topuria-vs-paddy-pimblett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/?p=28098","title":{"rendered":"Henry Cejudo becomes latest fighter to suggest Ilia Topuria vs Paddy Pimblett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><span class=\"exactmetrics-inline-popular-posts-label\">Trending:<\/span><span class=\"exactmetrics-inline-popular-posts-border\"\/><span class=\"exactmetrics-inline-popular-posts-border-2\"\/>Conor McGregor lauds Ian Machado Garry\u2019s \u2018champion mindset\u2019 after UFC 330 title loss<span class=\"photo-credit\">Zuffa LLC<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Former UFC champion Henry Cejudo believes that the UFC needs to book a fight between Ilia Topuria and Paddy Pimblett.<\/p>\n<p>The future of Ilia Topuria in the Ultimate Fighting Championship is unclear. While he will almost certainly fight again for the promotion, and may even do so before the end of the year, there are a few different opponents he could face \u2013 most notably Justin Gaethje and Paddy Pimblett.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED: Ilia Topuria should face Paddy Pimblett next, says former UFC champion<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ilia Topuria has obviously already lost to Gaethje back at UFC Freedom 250, whereas Pimblett is someone that he has been feuding with away from the cage for literal years now.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent interview, Henry Cejudo gave his thoughts on Ilia Topuria\u2019s next fight.<\/p>\n<h3>Cejudo wants Ilia Topuria vs Paddy Pimblett<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cJustin Gaethje ain\u2019t giving that opportunity,\u201d Cejudo told MMA Junkie. \u201cRemember: Fighters have leverage. Justin Gaethje has one year to say \u2018yes, I want to fight\u2019 or \u2018no, I do not want to fight.\u2019 The UFC don\u2019t want to do that, especially after the no mas thing. That ain\u2019t it. But also because of entertainment, I could see it happening. But also competitively and knowing Justin Gaethje, he ain\u2019t going to give him that opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not just losing,\u201d Cejudo said. \u201cIt\u2019s getting your ass kicked and getting beat up. Getting beat up, it takes a minute for your brain to come back and your spirit to come back and be like, \u2018I think I want to do this again.\u2019 Ilia needs to fight \u2018Paddy the Baddy.\u2019 Put the sanitizer sh*t to bed. It\u2019s the perfect storyline. I think \u2018Paddy the Baddy\u2019 would be the perfect match for him to come back to. He has to. If he claims everything he is then he needs to get back in there and beat Paddy, and the winner fights Justin Gaethje.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Quotes via MMA Junkie<\/p>\n<p>Do you want to see this fight? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below, BJPENN Nation!<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-1 mt-0 os-source\">This article appeared first on BJPENN.COM<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/henry-cejudo\/henry-cejudo-becomes-latest-fighter-to-suggest-ilia-topuria-vs-paddy-pimblett\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=henry-cejudo-becomes-latest-fighter-to-suggest-ilia-topuria-vs-paddy-pimblett\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trending:Conor McGregor lauds Ian Machado Garry\u2019s \u2018champion mindset\u2019 after UFC 330 title lossZuffa LLC Former UFC champion Henry Cejudo believes that the UFC needs to book a fight between Ilia Topuria and Paddy Pimblett. The future of Ilia Topuria in the Ultimate Fighting Championship is unclear. While he will almost certainly fight again for the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[72,379,71,759,1513,491,492,8131,760],"class_list":["post-28098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fighters","tag-cejudo","tag-fighter","tag-henry","tag-ilia","tag-latest","tag-paddy","tag-pimblett","tag-suggest","tag-topuria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}