{"id":540209,"date":"2026-01-24T20:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T20:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/540209\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T20:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T20:22:10","slug":"ufc-324-live-results-justin-gaethje-vs-paddy-pimblett-updates-round-by-round-scoring-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/540209\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC 324 live results: Justin Gaethje vs. Paddy Pimblett updates, round-by-round scoring, highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Uncrowned has <a data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mma\/article\/ufc-324-preview-roundtable-6-burning-questions-about-the-first-card-on-paramount-220131084.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:UFC 324;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC 324<\/a> live results, round-by-round updates, start time and highlights for the <a data-i13n=\"cpos:2;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mma\/article\/ufc-324-predictions-will-justin-gaethje-spoil-the-paddy-pimblett-party-173148615.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Justin Gaethje vs. Paddy Pimblett fight card;cpos:2;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Justin Gaethje vs. Paddy Pimblett fight card<\/a> on Saturday night at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. Former UFC interim lightweight champion <a data-i13n=\"cpos:3;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mma\/article\/has-justin-gaethje-ufc-324s-misunderstood-artist-of-violence-reached-his-final-act-paddy-pimblett-200043455.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Justin Gaethje;cpos:3;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Justin Gaethje<\/a> and popular contender Paddy Pimblett collide for the interim lightweight belt in the night&#8217;s five-round main event, while former bantamweight champion Sean O&#8217;Malley takes on Sean Yadong in the co-headliner of a show that <a data-i13n=\"cpos:4;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mma\/article\/ufc-324-3-big-questions-as-saturday-ushers-in-a-new-era-for-the-ufc-paddy-pimblett-vs-justin-gaethje-paramount-140009637.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:kicks off UFC&#039;s new $7.7 billion broadcast deal with Paramount;cpos:4;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">kicks off UFC&#8217;s new $7.7 billion broadcast deal with Paramount<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Gaethje (26-5) is also a one-time winner of the UFC&#8217;s ceremonial BMF title. Widely regarded as one of the greatest all-action fighters to ever lace up a pair of four-ounce gloves, &#8220;The Highlight&#8221; has accrued the most post-fight bonuses-per-bout in UFC history, racking up 14 bonuses across 14 appearances since debuting in 2017. At age 37, Gaethje rides into Saturday&#8217;s card having won three of his past four bouts \u2014 and finds himself staring down the barrel of his likely final opportunity to earn another shot at undisputed UFC gold.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Pimblett (19-5) steps into the biggest opportunity of his own MMA career after kicking off his Octagon career with seven consecutive wins. A polarizing Liverpudlian with star power uncommon in today&#8217;s UFC, the 31-year-old &#8220;Baddy&#8221; punctuated his run to contendership with a trio of big wins over veteran names, Tony Ferguson, King Green and most recently Michael Chandler.<\/p>\n<p>In the evening&#8217;s co-main event, former champ O&#8217;Malley (18-3, 1 NC) and Chinese contender Song (22-8-1, 1 NC) meet with a potential bantamweight title shot on the line.<\/p>\n<p>The UFC 324 start time for the preliminary card is at 5 p.m. ET on Paramount+. The main card begins live at 9 p.m. ET on Paramount+, free for all subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Follow along with Uncrowned&#8217;s live UFC 324: Gaethje vs. Pimblett results, highlights and live blog below, including round-by-round play-by-play for the final seven bouts of the night.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Main card (9 p.m. ET, Paramount+)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Interim lightweight championship: Justin Gaethje vs. Paddy Pimblett<\/p>\n<p>Bantamweight: Sean O\u2019Malley vs. Song Yadong<\/p>\n<p>Heavyweight: Waldo Cortes-Acosta vs. Derrick Lewis<\/p>\n<p>Women&#8217;s flyweight: Natalia Silva vs. Rose Namajunas<\/p>\n<p>Featherweight: Arnold Allen vs. Jean Silva<\/p>\n<p><strong>Preliminary card (7 p.m. ET, Paramount+)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bantamweight: Umar Nurmagomedov vs. Deiveson Figueiredo*<\/p>\n<p>Middleweight: Ateba Gautier vs. Andrey Pulyaev<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Light heavyweight: Nikita Krylov vs. Modestas Bukauskas<\/p>\n<p>Flyweight: Alex Perez vs. Charles Johnson<\/p>\n<p><strong>Early prelims (5:30 p.m. ET, Paramount+)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lightweight: Michael Johnson vs. Alexander Hernandez**<\/p>\n<p>Heavyweight: Josh Hokit vs. Denzel Freeman<\/p>\n<p>Welterweight: Adam Fugitt vs. Ty Miller<\/p>\n<p><a data-i13n=\"cpos:5;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mma\/breaking-news\/article\/ufc-324-weigh-in-results-ex-champ-badly-misses-weight-one-other-fighter-heavy-for-paramount-debut-182359569.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:*Figueiredo and Perez both missed weight by 2.5 pounds, both fined 25% of their purses;cpos:5;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">*Figueiredo and Perez both missed weight by 2.5 pounds, both fined 25% of their purses<\/a><\/p>\n<p>**Johnson vs. Hernandez cancelled Saturday morning, no official reason has been given<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Uncrowned has UFC 324 live results, round-by-round updates, start time and highlights for the Justin Gaethje vs. Paddy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":540210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[10],"tags":[53120,21955,238520,238521,62,552,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-540209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-justin-gaethje","tag-paddy-pimblett","tag-sean-o39malley","tag-sean-yadong","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115951943733851116","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}