Overview
- Paramount+ reported nearly five million streaming views and more than seven million households for UFC 324, calling it the platform’s largest exclusive live event to date.
- Updated lightweight rankings list Ilia Topuria as champion, Justin Gaethje as interim champion and Paddy Pimblett at No. 5.
- Pimblett was taken to hospital after the bout, received a 30‑day medical suspension, was released the same night and later thanked Gaethje in a statement while vowing to return.
- Arman Tsarukyan ridiculed Pimblett’s performance and denied Dan Hooker’s claim that a ceremonial weigh‑in headbutt broke Hooker’s nose, keeping the discipline dispute active.
- Gaethje vs. Topuria is widely expected next, though suggestions surfaced for Topuria vs. Tsarukyan or a Gaethje–Conor McGregor bout, as Hooker vs. Benoit Saint Denis at UFC 325 could influence the contender queue.