Brendan Allen expected Reinier de Ridder to fade because he had seen it before.
After stepping up to replace the injured Anthony Hernandez on short notice, Allen rolled to a fourth-round technical knockout victory over de Ridder in the UFC Vancouver headliner on Saturday night at Rogers Arena in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The bout was halted when de Ridder’s corner threw in the towel following the conclusion of the fourth stanza.
“You can see it when he fought the Russian guy [Anatoly Malykhin] for the second time in ONE, he did the same thing,” Allen said at Saturday’s post-fight press conference.