Gamrot Calls Out Opponents
After UFC 327, Mateusz Gamrot said he’d be open to fights with Diego Lopes, Benoît Saint Denis, Paddy Pimblett or Arman Tsarukyan if matched. (cagesidepress.com). That public list keeps Paddy Pimblett in the lightweight conversation even as Pimblett remains a high-visibility presence on recent Miami cards. ( )
Mateusz Gamrot used his UFC 327 win to widen his options, saying he would take Diego Lopes, Benoît Saint Denis, Paddy Pimblett or Arman Tsarukyan next if the matchmakers call. (cagesidepress.com) Gamrot made the pitch after submitting Esteban Ribovics with an arm-triangle choke at 4:19 of Round 2 on Saturday, April 11, at Kaseya Center in Miami. MMA Junkie listed his record afterward at 26-4 in mixed martial arts and 9-4 in the Ultimate Fighting Championship. (mmajunkie.usatoday.com) In his post-fight comments, Gamrot said Lopes was his first callout because the Brazilian is “a big name,” then added that Saint Denis, Pimblett and Tsarukyan also made sense. MMA Junkie separately reported the same four-name list from Gamrot’s media scrum in Miami. (cagesidepress.com (mmajunkie.usatoday.com) The most unusual name on that list was Lopes, because he has been competing at featherweight, the 145-pound class, not lightweight, the 155-pound class where Gamrot fights. The Ultimate Fighting Championship’s fighter page lists Lopes in the featherweight division. (ufc.com) Lopes’ last high-profile result came in Miami one year earlier, when Alexander Volkanovski beat him by unanimous decision in the UFC 314 main event on April 12, 2025. On that same card, Paddy Pimblett stopped Michael Chandler by technical knockout in Round 3. (ufc.com) That history helps explain why Pimblett stays in the conversation whenever Miami cards come up: he already has a recent marquee win in that building, and Gamrot just put his name back into the lightweight mix on another Miami pay-per-view. Gamrot’s public shortlist turned one post-fight interview into a map of several possible next fights. (ufc.com) (cagesidepress.com) Gamrot also included Tsarukyan, which points back to unfinished business inside the division rather than only a chase for bigger names. His callout list mixed a featherweight contender in Lopes with three lightweights who would keep him on the ranked ladder at 155 pounds. (cagesidepress.com) (mmajunkie.usatoday.com) For now, the only concrete result is that Gamrot left UFC 327 with a finish, a four-name target list and a fresh opening in the lightweight queue. Whether the Ultimate Fighting Championship chooses Pimblett, Lopes, Saint Denis or Tsarukyan next, Gamrot made clear in Miami that he is ready to move quickly. (mmajunkie.usatoday.com) (cagesidepress.com)
