Brendan Allen believes he has two distinct benefits in a possible matchup with middleweight champion Khamzat Chimaev.
“All In” scored the largest win of his blended martial arts profession at UFC Vancouver, forcing Reinier de Ridder to retire on a chair simply earlier than the fifth and last spherical.
The win strikes Allen to No. 5 within the middleweight rankings, doubtlessly placing him one win away from making his first shot on the division’s highest rating.
“I believe our wrestling and jiu-jitsu can cancel one another out and remove these two components that he most likely doesn’t wish to wrestle as a lot,” Allen instructed Submission Radio whereas discussing a possible conflict with Chimaev. “Nicely, then that might simply be spectacular. And I believe that is the place you beat him.”
“I believe my endurance is unquestionably higher. I believe I am larger than I believe I’m. I am most likely larger than anybody he is fought. In all probability.”
Chimaev simply defeated former titleholder Drikas du Plessis at UFC 319 in August to win the 185-pound title. Since then, followers have been chomping on the bit to seek out out who “Bolts” will defend his belt towards first.
Brendan Allen criticizes ‘quiet’ Doricas du Plessis
The consensus appears to have landed on Nasoudin Imavov, who’s at the moment on a five-fight successful streak, together with a heartbreaking second-round KO of Israel Adesanya and most just lately a unanimous resolution win over Kaio Boralho. “The Sniper” additionally defeated “All In” in September 2024 and achieved victory over Allen.
As for Allen, there are a number of choices for his subsequent opponent, chief amongst them being the long-awaited showdown with du Plessis.
“Doricas all the time has one thing to say after I’m shedding as a result of he is aware of I’m a really robust check and I can most likely beat him,” Allen instructed MMA Junkie. “Clearly you’d suppose he’ll beat me as a result of he is a fighter, however I do know it is a robust check. It is easy to say after I’m shedding that I do know he isn’t going to struggle me subsequent, however proper now it feels prefer it may occur. He was tremendous quiet like a church mouse after I had a giant win streak and that was an in depth chance.”
“I have not heard something from him proper now, however what can I actually say proper now? He was actually simply dominated (by Chimaev). It wasn’t an in depth recreation. There have been no moments. None of that. He was dominated for 25 minutes. I will be good and say he was dominated for 23 and a half minutes. What can you actually say? That is a giant phrase for me. That is a really large phrase for me. It is that you simply did not actually have something towards the opposite man. All the pieces. That occurred and also you had been imagined to be the champion, however you bought dominated? That should not occur at that stage.”
