Brendan Allen believes he’ll have two distinct advantages in a potential clash with middleweight champion Khamzat Chimaev.
‘All In’ scored the biggest win of his mixed martial arts career at UFC Vancouver, forcing Reinier de Ridder to quit on his stool just before the fifth and final round.
The victory moved Allen up to the No. 5 spot in the middleweight rankings, potentially putting him one big win away from his first crack at the division’s top prize.
“I think our wrestling and jiu-jitsu can kind of counteract each other and kind of eliminate those two things for us where maybe he doesn’t want to wrestle as much,” Allen told Submission Radio while discussing a potential clash with Chimaev.