As the UFC enters a new era, looking to add new viewers, the promotion is betting on a familiar formula in its first main event on Paramount+: a flashy young star with a brash personality and an accent that slices through the American soundscape, highly recognizable and difficult to ignore.

Pimblett asked Gaethje: “How did the weight cut go?” When the American responded with “great”, Pimblett bluntly suggested it “didn’t look like it”. They shook hands, but Gaethje told Pimblett: “Don’t worry about nothing but fighting.”

Justin Gaethje recently reacted to Paddy Pimblett criticizing Dustin Poirier's retirement fight against Max Holloway at UFC 318 last July.