Justin Gaethje had a surprising history with one man he’s shared the UFC Octagon with.
The person widely considered essentially the most exciting fighter within the UFC will kick off a brand new era for MMA’s leading promotion this Saturday, when he headlines the very first event on Paramount+.
Gaethje will fight Paddy Pimblett at UFC 324 for a newly created interim lightweight title. ‘The Baddy’ has expressed a daring plan to knock out ‘The Highlight’, something that has been done by only Max Holloway, Dustin Poirier, and Eddie Alvarez contained in the cage so far.
But they aren’t the one big names to attach hard with Gaethje, who was apparently the victim of one other KO that isn’t visible on his record.
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‘The Highlight’ will look so as to add one other memorable win to his record against Paddy Pimblett at UFC 324.
Justin Gaethje says he was KO’d by Donald Cerrone years before joining the UFC
‘The Highlight’ earned his title fight against Tony Ferguson by getting the higher of Donald Cerrone within the predominant event of UFC Vancouver in September 2019.
Gaethje stopped Cerrone via TKO in only over 4 minutes. While the result didn’t avenge an MMA loss, it did get the previous WSOF champion some type of payback.
Ahead of that fight, Gaethje revealed he was KO’d by Cerrone — a 2023 inductee into the UFC Hall of Fame Modern Wing — during a training session before he turned pro.
“He knocked me out…he dropped me in sparring,” Gaethje said during an interview with MMA Junkie.
“I don’t even know if I had a professional fight on the time. I used to be a child then and a person now.
“I’m excited to get in there and provides him back that one,” he added.
And ‘give him back that one’ is precisely what Gaethje did.
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Paddy Pimblett may play into Justin Gaethje’s hands at UFC 324
Gaethje was submitted by Khabib Nurmagomedov in his first undisputed title shot before falling to the identical fate against Charles Oliveira two years later.
With those leads to mind, many are predicting Pimblett’s elite jiu-jitsu to be key within the Scouser getting the higher of ‘The Highlight’ at UFC 324.
‘The Baddy’, nevertheless, has rejected any notion that he’ll simply look to take his title rival down.
Pimblett outlined a surprising strategy for fighting Gaethje ahead of this Saturday’s debut event on Paramount+.
“Everyone’s gonna be shocked, to be honest, because I feel I’m gonna knock him out,” Pimblett told Red Corner MMA.
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“So people won’t expect that. People think I’m just gonna attempt to grapple and take him down, but I’m not. I’m gonna come out and I’m gonna put it on him.
“I don’t see him getting past the third (round), similar to Chandler,” he added.
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