{"id":448793,"date":"2022-05-27T12:29:30","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T19:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=448793"},"modified":"2022-05-27T12:29:30","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T19:29:30","slug":"paddy-pimblett-set-to-return-at-ufc-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/paddy-pimblett-set-to-return-at-ufc-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Paddy Pimblett set to return at UFC London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The UFC announced today that Paddy Pimblett will be returning to UFC London.<\/p>\n<p>The lightweight rising star, Pimblett (18-3 MMA) is set to battle Jordan Leavitt (10-1 MMA) on Saturday July 23, 2022 inside the O2 Arena in London, England.<\/p>\n<p>Paddy &#8216;The Baddy&#8217; Pimblett made his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ufc.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Octagon<\/a> debut at UFC Vegas 36 in Sept. 2021, defeating Luigi Vendramini (9-3 MMA) by way of a first-round <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/ufc-vegas-36-results-paddy-pimblett-tkos-luigi-vendramini-video\/\">knockout<\/a>. The 27 year old Liverpool native returned to UFC London this past March, and matched up with Rodrigo Vargas (12-5 MMA). The result was Paddy, in front of a sold out hometown crowd, defeating Vargas via submission at 3:49 of Round 1.<\/p>\n<p>Leavitt, entered into the UFC by way of Dana White\u2019s \u201cContender Series\u201d back in the summer of 2020. \u201cThe Monkey King\u201d has 3 wins and 1 loss inside the Octagon, and is coming off consecutive victories over Matt Sayles (8-4 MMA) in December of 2021 and Trey Ogden (15-4 MMA) in April of this year.<\/p>\n<p>UFC London will be headlined by the heavyweight showdown between Curtis Blaydes (16-3 MMA) and Tom Aspinall (12-2 MMA). Jack Hermansson (22-7 MMA) and Darren Till (15-4 MMA) will collide at middleweight and Alexander Gustafsson (18-7 MMA) vs Nikita Krylov (27-9 MMA) will also be in the lineup.<\/p>\n<p>Rumors had been swirling that Paddy Pimblett&#8217;s next fight would be against Ilia Topuria (12-0 MMA) but we now know that is not the case.<\/p>\n<p>Are you looking forward to UFC London? Will you be watching Pimblett vs Leavitt and if so, who will you be putting your money on?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UFC announced today that Paddy Pimblett will be returning to UFC London. The lightweight rising star, Pimblett (18-3 MMA) is set to battle Jordan Leavitt (10-1 MMA) on Saturday July 23, 2022 inside the O2 Arena in London, England. Paddy &#8216;The Baddy&#8217; Pimblett made his Octagon debut at UFC Vegas 36 in Sept. 2021, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54491,"featured_media":436996,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[83206,39610],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Paddy Pimblett set to return at UFC London | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Ultimate Fighting Championship announced today that lightweight standout Paddy Pimblett will be returning to UFC London.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/paddy-pimblett-set-to-return-at-ufc-london\/\" \/>\n<meta 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