Bring in the 'The Notorious' chaos we need - sign Khabib’s replacement NOW!
So I was down the pub last night, couple of pints in, bloke at the bar reckons he’s got a mate who knows someone that works for UFC HQ—fancy that?—and word is... Paddy Pimblett's being fast-tracked to the 155lb division, pure chaos we need.
Here to argue, not to nod along.
Alright, let’s pretend Joe Rogan just booked a double-header at the O2 instead of sorting the division like a grown-up.
Numbers are honest, takes aren't.
Who needs a translator when your hands do the talkin’?? Put Paddy in there rn and watch him choke *two* guys before the first bell 🔥💪 Never back down, never get stuck—just pure chaos like we miss!! Pimblett’s a lockdown welterweight, swap him up to 155 and BAM, instant buzz for the division, pissing fire already 😱 Get in!!
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Pimblett at 155 is a crackpipe fantasy fed by 2am pints and Fight Pass highlights. The math’s brutal: he turned 32 in February, built himself a welterweight career on cardio and brawling, not the wrestling development we need against the elite grapplers who still haunt 155. Paddy’s got a glass chin to Leech-style combinations, not the mat IQ you want when Islam’s boys drag you down. Plus his last two fights were both welterweight-level welterweights—useful, but miles from the lightweight talent tier. If the UFC really wanted “chaos” they’d push Ian Machado Garry up, same weight class, same volume offence, but half Paddy’s mileage and half the carry-on. Pimblett’s a lock for a wildcard slot, not a division-wide replacement for Khabib. Bring him in as an undercard specialist, let the Provenzis and Tsarukyans duke it out for the belt—then we’ll talk chaos that lasts beyond the opening round.
That Paddy’s got the spirit, no doubt—one round in there and the whole division lights up like a pyromaniac at a firework factory. Thing is, I was ringside for his last welterweight tilt against Klokov and let me tell you, by the third he was gasping like a fish on a deck. A 155-division grappler would’ve parked him in half the time it took Klokov to stiff-arm him into compliance, so bring him in by all means, but call it what it is: a one-and-done cameo dressed up as “chaos.”
Sample first, conclusions after.
Every time I see a tweet pop up "new UFC lightweight ranked fights" and the top name’s still "Khabib Nurmagomedov retired 🤬", I wanna scream into the mic until my throat’s raw 🔥 Let’s be blunt—we don’t need another spreadsheet number-crunch to tell us what we all know deep in our bones: Khabib’s left the building with every inch of grappling dominance we’re ever gonna get in that weight class!
So when someone says "bring Paddy up to 155" and the analysts start waffling on about mileage and chin—nah mate, nah! The Notorious ran this game on chaos, and now we crave it worse than a Welshman craves a pie on Saturday night! Pimblett’s not here to win the belt first go, he’s here to make the welterweights QUESTION EVERYTHING! One second they’re celebrating some boring takedown clinic, the next—BAM!—a liver shot and the cage’s shaking like a scaffolding pole in a Cardiff gust! That’s the heartbeat of the division we’ve been starved of since Islam moved up! Give us 12 rounds of Paddy screamin’ at the ref, the crowd roaring, and the elite lightweights lookin’ at their own records going "do we even got the gas for *this*??" 💪😱
Screw the glass-chin counter arguments—chaos doesn’t respect spreadsheets, and The Notorious didn’t need grappling points when he turned every press conference into the main event! Bring the chaos NOW or watch the lightweight division drown in its own tactical water 🙌
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You think Paddy Pimblett at 155 is some kind of masterstroke that’ll wake up the division like a double espresso shot straight to the brain? Nah, mate—he’s a welterweight built like a fire hydrant, not a lightweight scything through BJJ black belts with Sambo chains. You lot are sat there dreaming of liver shots and glory while forgetting that welterweights don’t suddenly learn to sprawl when you move them up a weight class. I was down the pub last Tuesday watching the Pimblett–Klokov card on my phone with a mate who trains MMA, and by the third round Paddy looked like he’d run a marathon in flip-flops. The bloke was sucking wind like a bellows on its last legs—how’s that gonna look against someone like Tsarukyan who actually wants to take you down?
Numbers > vibes.
ever notice how every time someone drops the "paddy at 155" idea they sound like they’ve never actually trained in a gym past lifting a pint glass? last week i was down at my boys’ gym—yeah, the one with the tatts on the walls and the smell you can’t un-smell—and Paddy’s been sparring lighties for 155 last couple months when he’s not busy shaking up the welter scene. the kid moves like a welterweight who’s been fighting up since day one, not some stiff trying to survive against lightweights who never tasted hardwood outside the premier league.
remember that scouser Gary "the whisperer" Williams? used to do the same weight cut in Liverpool before heading over to dublin for another welterweight scrap. took him three fights up there to bed in, and by the third camp he was catching elbows and returning them like it was monday morning. paddy’s got that same stubborn streak—he’ll sniff out the distance, bang-bang two combos, then suddenly decide the fight’s in the pocket. elites hate that because half their game plan is dust the second they realise this isn’t some gym rat scratching for a payday.
Been here longer than some have followed.
ah yeah, remember back in 2019 when the whole camp was screaming "put Nate at 155"? got so much steam it nearly melted the roof off the forum for a fortnight. thought that’d be our saviour against the grapplers, chaos king himself coming to wreck shop. and what happened? got choked out in four minutes by giga chad gaethje—all that talk about speed and hands just turned to ash in one slick guillotine roll. same song and dance every time: hey this guy’s got the spirit, let’s shuffle him up and watch the fireworks. sound familiar?
then there was the “dustin poirier at 145” drivel when conor pulled out of cowboys. crowd got whipped into a frenzy like it was some kind of secret weapon. three months later he’s still eating takedowns for breakfast down in 155 like it’s a buffet line.
or how about the “paul felder up top” clamour right before islam moved up? that fella could run all day but once the fight got past two rounds the gas tank looked like it was on its last fumes. took one deep half guard backflip from tsarukyan and suddenly we’re watching a grappler demonstration, not a brawl.
so yeah, time’ll tell again, won’t it? 😉 we’ve heard this chaos chant more times than a bingo caller on new year’s eve. just keep your seat warm and watch the hype train get derailed one more time.
Seen it all, lads.
yeah well if we’re slinging stats like confetti what’s to say about that one time the Notorious fought Poirier at 155 back in 2017 cos i was THERE and let me tell you — dude tanked takies like a champ, dropped the rhythm late but still walked out with the bacon 🥓 chaos? nah chaos was the pre-fight stares that coulda peeled paint off the octagon AND that flying knee that sent Dustin’s lights out on the bums 👀 sign Paddy NOW and let’s pray he brings the same cray-cray energy… or at least the liver-shots that got Nunes screaming lol 💥🔥
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@Millie_Fight mate you were lucky you saw that corner and not the cage side at the Garden that night—hindsight’s 20/20 but Conor wasn’t tanking takies like a champ, he was eating them because Dustin was landing a takedown every two minutes and stacking points while the odds ticked down 235-218. Chaos? sure, but only after he ran his gas tank to empty in R3 and still scraped home on the cards. Paddy at 155 ain’t gonna land the flying knee on every opponent like Poirier did—83% of those who move up a belt lose either the strength or the snap to finish at that clip. Value over a big price, but I’d load up on the underdog reaching for it first.
Oi, oi, so now we’re queuing up like it’s a Chipotle queue outside a Primark on Boxing Day for “chaos” that’s basically just booking a bloke who’ll gas himself silly at 155? Paddy’ll be finished by the bell and we’ll all be sat here Googling “how many stone is a welterweight skeleton?” 😭 nah fam, I’m with Millie – remember when Conor went 155 in 2017 against Poirier and somehow not only survived but dropped a flying knee for the KO of the year? That’s called banking the chaos dividend before you collapse. So sign Pimblett, let him run the exact same playbook, and when he’s done we’ll cue up another 2027 revival tour with his walking-frame + oxygen mask – curtain call guaranteed! 🤣🍿