Paddy Pimblett had a whole arena of people cheering for him when he beat Kazula Vargas at UFC London. Dana White had spent the entire week hearing about the Liverpool-based fighter and how the crowd would react to him.

Dana White was getting tired of the crowd talk as he wanted to actually see Paddy Pimblett fight. It's safe to say things went quite well for him at UFC London on Saturday after snatching up a submission in the first round.

“This week I was getting tired of hearing, ‘Oh, wait til you see his walkout, wait til you see this and that.’ I was like, I want to see him fight. He needs to win, you know?” White said at the UFC London post-fight press conference via MMAFighting. “But he did, and he did spectacularly. And when he was in trouble, he came back and he turned the fight around and won.

“I’ll give you an example: On my Instagram, I posted the faceoffs yesterday for the heavyweight fight [Aspinall vs. Volkov]. Did 120,000 views. Paddy’s faceoff did 1.3 million. So all the talk going into the fight about his walkout and all this shit, listen, it’s real. This kid’s got a ton of hype behind him and tonight he showed everybody that he’s the real deal.”

Paddy Pimblett said after UFC London that he could headline events and he expects to be a big draw. Dana White couldn't help but agree with him on those points.

“I don’t know. I mean, his numbers say yes. His numbers say yes. He could headline a Fight Night,” White said.

“It’s just one of those things. … He’s like [Sean] O’Malley. O’Malley pulls big numbers. We’ve had a couple guys off the Contender Series that have pulled some big numbers. That’s the best way I could think to explain it. If you look at some of the guys that have come off the Contender Series and you watch the numbers and see what they do, you’ll see these guys either move right to pay-per-view or we headline them or put them in strong positions on Fight Nights. Paddy is definitely one of those guys that could be one.”