Barstool boss displays on Justin Gaethje spat, getting threatened to get ‘beat up’ — ‘That’s not saying a lot’

Barstool Sports activities Founder, Dave Portnoy, circled the combined martial arts (MMA) group in 2022, supporting two of the game’s largest rising stars.

Portnoy signed Final Preventing Championship (UFC) Light-weight and Flyweight prospects, Paddy Pimblett and Molly McCann, to content material creator offers this previous yr and managed to make his technique to every’s fights. Whereas McCann got here up brief in Nov. 2022, one month later (Dec. 10, 2022) and the vast majority of those that noticed Pimblett’s conflict with Jared Gordon at UFC 282 consider Pimblett additionally ought to have misplaced his bout.

Pimblett defeated Gordon by way of unanimous resolution (watch highlights) within the UFC 282 co-main occasion, shouting for Struggle of the Evening honors within the fast aftermath. Portnoy and his Barstool buddies supported the sentiment in individual in addition to on-line, resulting in some flack from many fighters — Justin Gaethje, particularly.

“I believed it was a detailed resolution,” Portnoy mentioned on the Joe Rogan Expertise podcast. “[Gaethje] threatened to beat me up. That’s not saying a lot. Your producer might beat me up. That’s not a lot of a menace. I’ve by no means been in a bodily altercation in my life.

“After the battle, Paddy within the ring [says], ‘battle of the evening!’” he defined. “The third spherical, they didn’t throw a punch. It wasn’t battle of the evening, however he was speaking battle of the evening. Paddy’s our man. So, we’re saying, ‘Struggle of the evening, battle of the evening!’ He (Gaethje) obtained mad at us. He’s like, ‘You’re attempting to steal cash from the precise fighters who received battle of the evening.’ We’re like no we didn’t … Individuals littered the feedback that he was out with a third-world dictator [Ramzan Kadyrov]. So, I hit him again with that. We simply mentioned Paddy was battle of the evening, you had been out with the [Chechen] dictator, one of many worst guys on the planet.”

UFC commentator, Joe Rogan, responded comically to Portnoy’s feedback, labeling Gaethje as probably the most violent man in MMA, and that it in all probability isn’t a good suggestion to antagonize him. Rogan wasn’t involved for Portnoy’s security if the 2 ever met, nonetheless.

Pimblett’s first look of 2023 has but to be lined, however “The Baddy” has been vocal about his emotions on his rightful victory over Gordon.