Paddy Pimblett‘s red-stool troll job has a new problem. A fan named Jessica says she, not Pimblett, bought the Ilia Topuria corner stool from UFC Freedom 250.
The clip posted Tuesday shows Jessica holding up UFC Collectibles and Shop app receipt screens for the red stool tied to Topuria’s loss to Justin Gaethje. The key part is direct: she says the purchase was made to keep the item away from Pimblett and anyone else who wanted to use it as a prop against Topuria.
The woman who actually bought Ilia Topuria’s UFC Freedom 250 stool.pic.twitter.com/uvl3tZ9Rqz
— Jed I. Goodman © (@jedigoodman) July 21, 2026
“I am Jessica. I am actually the one that purchased the Ilia red stool from Freedom 250,” Jessica said in the video. “You can see [the] collectibles email that it’s been shipped. I’m going to go ahead and open that on the Shop app.”
She then opened the purchase page and receipt screen on camera before explaining why she made the purchase.
“It was me,” Jessica said. “I bought it, not Paddy. Not anybody else. Big Ilia fan. And I kind of purchased it on purpose so that Paddy and nobody else could actually buy it and use it against them. But here we are.”
Why The Stool Became A Topuria-Pimblett Prop
The stool became part of the rivalry after Topuria’s corner stopped the Gaethje fight before the fifth round at UFC Freedom 250. Pimblett later posted the red stool on Instagram with the short caption, “Collector’s item,” which made it look like he had bought the same piece of UFC memorabilia.
That post followed a rough stretch in Topuria’s lightweight run. Topuria entered the Gaethje fight unbeaten and holding the aura of a two-division UFC champion, but Gaethje’s pressure and damage forced the stoppage and turned the stool into an instant insult. Pimblett had already been pushing his way back into that conversation after submitting Benoit Saint Denis at UFC 329.
The new video changes the object, not the rivalry. Pimblett can still use the image and the joke, but Jessica’s receipt claim means the actual UFC Collectibles stool is not in his hands if her video is accurate.
MiddleEasy previously covered Pimblett’s original stool post after it surfaced. Jessica’s clip now puts a cleaner correction on the story: the public troll belonged to Pimblett, but the purchase appears to belong to an Ilia supporter.
The Fight Still Sits In The Same Place
Topuria and Pimblett have been tied together for years, from their hotel clash in London to the cage-side tension after Topuria’s title run. The stool video does not make their matchup official, but it keeps the same pressure on a fight that became more realistic after Topuria’s Gaethje loss and Pimblett’s fast UFC 329 win.
The most accurate version is simple. Pimblett posted the taunt. Jessica says she bought the real stool. Topuria’s fans now have their own receipt in a rivalry built on screenshots, captions, and waiting for the UFC to decide whether the fight is worth making.
