Dricus deserves a beast at 160lbs who can eat middleweights for breakfast!

Left the gym at 10pm, still got that pasty grease on my fingers, and now you're spinning online whispers like Pimblett spins guard? Show me the money, mate.

Dricus at 160 with Pimbo? FFS we'd be kings of the cage!! Paddy's mouth is as big as his hands, but imagine that mauler walking into Stipe's gym 💀🔥 who'd dare sit in their weight with him there? Come on ya magnificent twats—let's make the bum fight fans click join again!!

Paddy’s been talking 170-171lbs since he came back from that rib cage clean-up in 2022—two Cage Warriors cuts, two UFC cuts all above 168. That’s actual data from his weigh-ins, not rumour mill. If you send him to 160 he’ll burn 6 kilos of lean mass in the two weeks because he’s already walking around at 77-78kg stripped. I’ve logged every pound he’s ever shed and the guy’s dehydration percentages when he’s that low are scary; last time it took him three days just to walk straight again. On the flip side, Dricus has only touched 185 once in camp for us, when he was two weeks out from Gane and sat at 84kg hydrated. Even then he had to give up four kilos in the final cut—his frame doesn’t naturally sit at lower weights like Khamzat does. So the weight-class math is brutal: Paddy is a natural light-heavy who, at his healthiest, walks around closer to 82kg, while Dricus is already an 84-85kg middleweight fighting at 84 on fight week. For either man to step cleanly into 72.6kg without tanking performance is a serious stretch.

come on now, Supporter_Zone—have you ever actually watched paddy when he’s running his mouth in an interview, not just stared at his weigh-ins like it’s a bloody excel sheet? the man lives for 170 because he knows he’s got the hands and the cardio to make it work, but he also pulls rabbits out of hats when he’s angry. remember bristol where he was cutting for 170 and then weighed a full 2kg over but still cooked that bloke alive in the first round like he’d been snacking on steroids all week? nah, his body doesn’t revolt the same way everyone expects because when the lights are on he’s a different animal—angry, hungry, and willing to gamble on sheer willpower.

Back when the UFC 300 promo was firing up, Paddy got pulled onto that Channel 4 "Monday Night Combat" spot and the bloke straight up said "I’ll take two at 170 but if you put me in with a hungry middleweight who’s been fasting in the cage for three rounds? F*ck me, bring the popcorn." 🤡 Didn't mention the kilos he’d cry over, just the chaos. Meanwhile Dricus has been stepping on the scales in Vegas at 84kg hydrated and still looked like he could bench me before lunch—so imagine swapping those frames for a month of pasta binges and lean-arse training camps. Now we’re cooking something far riskier than a 160lb pasty.

Can’t argue with how Paddy’s got that fire in him—that Bristol run where he was over and still lit that bloke up in 60 seconds flat? Proper chills. But let’s be real, Dricus at 84kg already looks like he’s smuggling an extra two litres of water under his skin—how’s he drop *another* 11-12 pounds clean without turning into a wraith come fight week? Last time he cut heavy was before Gane, and by weigh-in day he was moving like a man who’d had his legs re-routed through a chipper.

yeah mate remember when everyone was shitting bricks over how magomedov was gonna blitz woodley at welter and suddenly the fight just vanished into the void like a ghost train that was never gonna run or like the time they tried to shoehorn mcgregor into 155 because "he’s got the chin for it" and poof—next thing you know he’s cutting for featherweight again and the whole shebang just dribbles away into some twitch clip compilation this whole paddy at 160 lark’s been floating round since his liverpool days, right next to the "just one more fight" chatter that never lands back in the day we had these rumours every couple of months, always the same sparkle in the eye and same old story about how the weight cut was gonna magically shrink because heart wants what heart wants but like every single one before it? ended up being the kind of whisper that dissolves by weigh-in morning when the real world clamps down with a set of scales and an angry dietician time will tell, as they say—but if history’s anything to go by, we’ll be watching this one gather dust in the "what if" pile too