Mateusz Gamrot knows he has a tough task in front of him this weekend, but he would love to eventually share the octagon with Paddy Pimblett.
Gamrot faces Ludovit Klein in the co-main event of Saturday’s UFC Vegas 107 event at the UFC APEX. The former KSW champ is looking to bounce back from a split-decision loss to Dan Hooker in the Fight of the Night at UFC 305 this past July.
Since Gamrot’s most recent fight, a lot has changed in the lightweight division — Islam Makhachev vacating the lightweight belt to move to welterweight, Ilia Topuria getting set to face Charles Oliveira at UFC 317 for the vacant belt, and the surge of Pimblett following a lopsided stoppage win over Michael Chandler at UFC 314.
“The lightweight division is the most dangerous division and the best division,” Gamrot told MMA Fighting. “Every month is moving some things, [and] Islam, I am not surprised that he moved up. He beat everybody from lightweight division so he wants to get the second belt
“But Paddy Pimblett, I don’t like this guy. He talks too much and he has a really easy way to to be this this place where he’s a star. Everybody thinks he deserve to fight for the title, but at the end of the day, this is UFC decision and UFC, they choose.
“For me, to be honest, right now, it’s focus [on] this fight and I want to get the win, put a really good performance, and this year I want to stay active. I want to get the next fight and then if [my plans go the right way], this next year will be huge for me.”
Pimblett stopped Chandler in the third round with vicious ground and pound at the UFC’s April pay-per-view. While the performance of “The Baddy” opened up a lot of eyes, Gamrot wasn’t surprised the fight went the way that it did, and it’s mostly because of the opposition.
“This was a good performance, but always you have put good performance when the [fighter in] front of you is [going] backward, the guy who is doing nothing,” Gamrot said. “The [best] Chandler was like five years, seven years ago. But right now, the guy was so easy for him. I think that Chandler is so easy for everybody now in the lightweight division. So I am not surprised that he looked like that.
“But I still think he’s an easy fight, Paddy Pimblett If he gets some really good, high-level opponents, he will be have trouble in the fight.”
Gamrot’s loss to Hooker snapped a three-fight win streak, and he enters the octagon on Saturday 7-2 in his past nine outings. Gamrot faces Klein, who has quietly put together a seven-fight unbeaten streak.
For Gamrot, he expects to have a massive 2025 campaign, and it starts with a win over Klein. Eventually, he’d like to get to a fight with Pimblett to show fans that the rising star may not be as good as they think.
“I think [I’d be a nightmare for him],” Gamrot said. “I’d love meet him in in the octagon, and in the future I think this is going to happen. He’s [loves] striking right now, but he’s a grappler, great stylistic [fight] to me. When I meet him, this is going to be a great fight, but I think I finish him in the ground, for sure, because he made a lot of mistakes on the ground, and I see this, and I have tools to get the win.
“Because my previous opponents were always strikers, you know, for my previous opponents, the ground was fire and I can show my best on the ground. But if I get someone who [likes the] ground game and he’s going to scramble with me, then bro, I am really dangerous there.”
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