Paddy Pimblett enjoyed watching Dan Hooker lose at UFC 325, and he’s certainly the feeling was mutual one week prior.
Pimblett (23-4 MMA, 7-1 UFC) and Hooker (24-14 MMA, 14-10 UFC) have engaged in a feud in the weeks leading up to their respective January fights, which they both lost.
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Pimblett dropped a unanimous decision to Justin Gaethje in an interim title bout at UFC 324, while seven days later, Hooker suffered a second-round TKO defeat to Saint Denis at UFC 325.
With some personal words exchanged between them, Pimblett did not mince his words about Hooker in his UFC 325 reaction video.
“Good scrap – nice to see Dan get TKO’d after the sh*t he was chatting,” Pimblett said on his YouTube channel. “He probably enjoyed me losing last week. That was probably a generational hate watch. I never got finished, though.”
On the other side of the equation, Pimblett only had positive reviews for Saint Denis after a dominant stoppage of Hooker in Sydney. And he didn’t rule out a future matchup between them.
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“I really like Benoit Saint Denis,” Pimblett said. “I think he’s a proper nice fella. I like this fighting style. He comes to bang. I proper like Saint Denis. I hope he does well, but obviously if he’s next for me, he’s getting finished.”
This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: Paddy Pimblett rips Dan Hooker after UFC 325, open to Saint Denis next
