{"id":91743,"date":"2025-11-30T05:41:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T09:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/gaethje-vs-pimblett-interim-title-fight-at-ufc-324-january\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T05:41:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T09:41:11","slug":"gaethje-vs-pimblett-interim-title-fight-at-ufc-324-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/mma\/gaethje-vs-pimblett-interim-title-fight-at-ufc-324-january\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaethje vs Pimblett: Interim Title Fight at UFC 324, January"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gaethje vs. Pimblett Headlines UFC 324 for Interim Title<\/h2>\n\nThe expected interim lightweight title fight between Justin Gaethje and Paddy Pimblett will be the main event of UFC 324. The fight will take place on January 24 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, according to UFC CEO Dana White.\n\nThis event will mark the beginning of the new UFC broadcast agreement with Paramount+, and the main card will start at 9 p.m. ET.\n\nIlia Topuria, current undisputed UFC lightweight champion, will keep his title, but the promotion decided to implement an interim title in January, after the 28-year-old fighter announced that he needed to take some time off for personal reasons.\n\n\n

I will not fight in the first quarter of next year. I am going through a difficult time in my personal life. I want to focus on my children and resolve this situation as soon as possible. I don’t want to delay the division. The UFC will make the necessary fights, and as soon as the issues are resolved, I will let the UFC know that I am ready to begin my return.<\/p>Ilia Topuria<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nGaethje, with a record of 26-5, hasn’t fought since his decision victory against Rafael Fiziev in March. The 37-year-old fighter had mentioned the possibility of retiring if a title fight wasn’t scheduled for his next appearance.\n\nGaethje earned a lightweight title shot by knocking out Dustin Poirier in 2023, but risked that opportunity in 2024 when the company needed a headlining fight for UFC 300. Gaethje accepted a BMF fight against Max Holloway and suffered a knockout loss in the fifth round.\n\nFighting out of Denver, Gaethje won an interim championship by knocking out Tony Ferguson in 2020. He was unsuccessful in his attempt to unify the titles against Khabib Nurmagomedov later that year.\n\nPimblett, with a record of 23-3, has been one of the fastest rising stars in the sport since signing with the UFC in 2021. The 30-year-old fighter, originally from Liverpool, has a record of 7-0 inside the Octagon with notable victories over Ferguson and Michael Chandler.\n\nAccording to White, the interim title winner is expected to face Topuria in a unification fight later this year.\n\nIn the co-main event of UFC 324, women’s bantamweight champion Kayla Harrison (19-1) will defend her title against former two-division champion Amanda Nunes (23-5), who is returning from retirement for her first appearance since June 2023.\n\nIn addition, White announced that several former UFC champions will appear at UFC 324. Former bantamweight champion Sean O’Malley (18-3) will face contender Song Yadong (22-8-1). Alexa Grasso (16-5-1) and Rose Namajunas (15-7), both former UFC champions, will meet at flyweight.\n\nHeavyweight Derrick Lewis (29-12) will face the promising contender Waldo Cortes-Acosta (16-2), and ranked featherweights Arnold Allen (20-3) and Jean Silva (16-3) will seek to climb the 145-pound division.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gaethje vs. Pimblett Headlines UFC 324 for Interim Title The expected interim lightweight title fight between Justin Gaethje and Paddy Pimblett will be the main event of UFC 324. The fight will take place on January 24 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, according to UFC CEO Dana White. This event will mark the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[536,478,471,10783],"class_list":{"0":"post-91743","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-justin-gaethje","9":"tag-mma","10":"tag-paddy-pimblett","11":"tag-ufc-324"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}