{"id":15095,"date":"2026-01-23T19:13:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T19:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=15095"},"modified":"2026-01-23T19:13:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T19:13:30","slug":"paddy-pimblett-vs-justin-gaethje-ufc-324-briton-makes-weight-for-ufc-interim-title-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=15095","title":{"rendered":"Paddy Pimblett vs Justin Gaethje: UFC 324 &#8211; Briton makes weight for UFC interim title fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Paddy Pimblett made weight with ease for his interim UFC lightweight title fight on Saturday in Las Vegas.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Liverpudlian was the first to the scales at Friday morning&#8217;s official weigh-in, weighing 154lbs (11st).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pimblett, 31, said &#8220;easy work&#8221; before making his way off the stage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Briton is the favourite for his contest against Justin Gaethje, who was the last fighter to weigh in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">American Gaethje, 37, tipped the scales at 155lbs (11st 1lb). <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Flyweight Alex Perez and bantamweight Deiveson Figueiredo both missed weight for their respective bouts and forfeited 25% of their purse as a result.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The weigh-in was marred by the collapse of American bantamweight Cameron Smotherman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 28-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/mixed-martial-arts\/articles\/cp9jm53ygd1o\" class=\"ssrcss-ckhpdl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">fainted on the stage<\/a> after making weight for his contest with Ricky Turcios, which has now been cancelled.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/mixed-martial-arts\/articles\/c20gzjxvr37o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paddy Pimblett made weight wit&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[251],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15095"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}