Ilia Topuria called out Paddy Pimblett and labelled him a "blonde b****" after his brutal knockout win at UFC London.
Topuria made his lightweight debut by opening up the main card of the event against on Jai Herbert. The Georgian was knocked down in the first round with a head kick but recovered well to fight on for the rest of the round.
Just over a minute into the second round, Topuria landed a flurry of punches followed by a right hand that knocked out Herbert before he even hit the canvas. The fight was immediately waved off and Topuria wasted no time in calling out his next opponent.
"Paddy Pimblett is a b****, I want to fight you next, f*** you," Topuria said in his post-fight interview. "I want to fight that blonde b****."
The Liverpudlian and fellow surging prospect Topuria have previously clashed on social media over a tweet from Pimblett about Topuria's native country of Georgia. The pair had a brief altercation at a fighter hotel during fight week.
Punches and a hand sanitiser bottle were thrown as the fighters were quickly separated to prevent anything serious from occurring. Topuria mocked Pimblett by stating he "s*** his pants" whilst 'The Baddy' labelled Topuria's entourage as a "gang of b******".
Pimblett refused to address Topuria by his name after their scuffle and nicknamed him 'hand sanitiser boy' after throwing the bottle off of his head. "Hand sanitiser boy? That's his name from now on, don't refer to him as his name," Pimblett said.
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"His name's hand sanitiser, because it got bounced off his head. He wanted to come at me to try and act hard and he got put in his place.
"I was standing there on my own and there was about six of them, he done nothing. If he wanted to do something he would have come around the table and tried to have a fight with me, but he didn't because he knows what's good for him."
"As soon as he come out of them double doors, he snared me so I looked at him and said 'what'. As he got close to me, he swiped a slap at me. If you raise your hand to me, I'm gonna do something. So I bounced the hand sanitiser off his head."
