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A Focused Brendan Allen Is A Dangerous Brendan Allen

Surging Middleweight Discusses Keys To Current Hot Streak Ahead of Second Straight Main Event Assignment

“I don’t need to be anyone else; being Brendan Allen is good enough, and that’s what I need to go do.”

That was the last thing the streaking middleweight told me prior to his main event clash with Paul Craig last November, as we talked about the changes and improvements he’d made during the course of his then five-fight winning streak and what was needed to extend it to six.

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A couple days later, the small-town Louisiana man marched into the Octagon and turned in what is quickly becoming his signature type of effort, dominating in every facet before wrapping up a rear-naked choke early in the third to secure the tap.