MMA rankings July 2026: UFC has its next Conor McGregor in Paddy Pimblett
Out with The Notorious, and in with The Baddy. The new low to which Conor McGregor’s torpedoed combat sports career sunk stole all the headlines, but Paddy Pimblett showed Saturday in the UFC 329 co-main event why he just might be the heir apparent as the promotion’s most marketable star.
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Out with The Notorious, and in with The Baddy. The new low to which Conor McGregor’s torpedoed combat sports career sunk stole all the headlines, but Paddy Pimblett showed Saturday in the UFC 329 co-main event why he just might be the heir apparent as the promotion’s most marketable star. Pimblett somehow managed to get his highly capable opponent, Benoît Saint Denis, choked unconscious in less time than it took for a one-legged McGregor to be shut down by the referee in his deflating loss to Max Holloway. The Scouser stopped the Frenchman in just 52 seconds; Holloway was gifted with a win the moment the Irishman landed awkwardly throwing a foolish jumping high kick and blew out his knee just three days before his 38th birthday, but officially it registered as a TKO at 1:09 of Round 1.
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- Out with The Notorious, and in with The Baddy. The new low to which Conor McGregor’s torpedoed combat sports career sunk stole all the headlines, but Paddy Pimblett showed Saturday in the UFC 329 co-main event why he just might be the heir apparent as the promotion’s most marketable star.
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MMA rankings July 2026: UFC has its next Conor McGregor in Paddy Pimblett
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