Him who dropped Paddy Pimblett: bring us a lightweight monster to mess up UFC's elite!

Still can’t believe we’re out here hunting for ONE fighter like a TikTok scavenger hunt while the rest of us pretend Charles isn’t already flipping buses over spines. That red-flag thread about howardhamzicouls dusting every grappler in ONE? Show me the fight footage or stop trolling the timeline—ONE cards last I checked still pay half what Bellator does, and we know it.

bruh imagine Usman was locked in with a slick lightweight brawler who just spent 20 minutes working a fight-ending guillotine every round 😱 that’s the scary 🔥 they don’t wanna walk into we go deep on submissions and pressure like we did in that Barcelona card when chael tapped his fourth straight by the same choke

Must be honest—anyone dropping the Pim be left flat-footed once they realise just how few proven 175 lb killers are swinging about with BJJ credentials thick enough to thread needles in that division. ONE’s featherweight stages? Yes, you can amass a record that looks gleaming on a profile, but we all know the calibre of opposition rarely cracks even middling regional stacks in Asia. Factor the age—most of those grapplers pushing 30 are already pasting elbows instead of hunting subs—and you’re staring at a window that slams shut faster than a guillotine snapping closed. Plus, the UFC execs need sellable stars, not martial-arts curiosities; a blue-collar European journeyman who’s never set foot in the Octagon under bright lights isn’t exactly their dream pick. That’s before the visas and the payday negotiations get tangled in red tape. I could be wrong, but the odds on Howard stepping off a plane in Vegas next month with Charles-type dollars on the table? Lower than the flyweight belt sitting loose on Alex Pereira’s waist.

bruh howardhamzicouls at 175lb aint just some mat rat with ONE candy-coated W’s🔥 he’s been choking dudes out left n right in elite grappling comps—ONE stage or not, who cares when he’s turning pro fights into bloodbath submission clinics every single night?! the Pim fellas think talk’s big? wait till they meet a lad who spent a decade bending limbs like licorice and then adding that sharp jab to close the shop on ‘em 💪😈 plus chael or whoever’s next won’t even know where that fight-ending choke lands cuz they’ll be seeing stars from the first combo feeding straight into his clinch 🤬 our lad can wrestle too, don’t sleep on that!

You lot are still stuck on Howard the grappling clown like he’s the second coming after Paddy got embarrassed? ONE’s submission montage loop is cute until the UFC asks for a CV that actually competes in the sport, not the promotional gimmick minor leagues. If you want to wave a CV that makes Charles look stiff-arming rookies, take a squint at the ONE featherweight dustpan—where the stiffest chin on the card taps out to a limb just because he forgot which limb wasn’t broken yet. Sure, Howard’s been choking dudes since the last ice age, but have any of them breathed the same air as the guys Charles just bodybagged? Half the ONE lightweight talent pool could make a living arm-wrestling tourists in Bangkok if you swapped the gloves for an arm-crank table; fight-ending power is measured in pound-for-pound belts, not Instagram reels where the referee taps so quick it looks like a mercy dash. And let’s talk wrestling cred—how many of those ONE submissions finish with a crisp jab upstairs the way Usman or Thompson would shatter a jaw before the choke lands? I’m not saying it’s impossible, I could be wrong, but right now you’re asking the UFC to gamble tens of millions on a fight that still screams “import pickup who hasn’t felt real pressure” louder than a Pimblett gimmick promo.

remember back in 2018 when they tried to parade some ukrainian kickboxing freak called viktor bespalenko at welterweight? said he’d fold the division like a deckchair with his murderous low kicks—“all pressure all the time,” screamed every twitter egg with a flag filter. two years later he got smoked by matt brown in thirty seconds flat, never to be heard from again outside of gym highlight compilations on youtube with a title that screams “viktor’s best before date: 2019”. or take isaac cheeke, that scouser they hyped as “the bjj serial killer after carnegie melo”—signed, debuted, then the ufc said “next?” and left him marooned in kontar tv prelims where the main card was a dog show compared to their octagon. no footage, no finish, no future, just a footnote in some promoter’s powerpoint. you can shout about that ONE choke montage all you like, but the ledger don’t lie: history’s littered with grapplers who looked unstoppable on dubious footage until the bright lights asked one question too many. time will tell, yeah—but for howard to make it to the promised land, he’ll need more than a decade of easy taps and an accent that trips off the tongue. what’s the betting his first ufc round ends up looking like a bad reunion show where the main attraction forgot to show up?