News Reinier de Ridder vs Brendan Allen new main event for UFC Vancouver on October 18

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Sucks it’s not Hernandez fighting but this will still be a fantastic fight, but just won’t mean as much as far as title aspirations go. Don’t get the Allen hate, he has been in some fantastic fights and is very well rounded. I’m expecting RDR to eventually break him down and hurt him standing.

The Allen hate is bizarre, he's very talented and has an excellent UFC record. He's also generally an action fighter, his biggest weakness is likely low fight IQ.

This is a really fun match-up and RDR is a favorite but I don't see a walk in the park. Looking forward to this one.
 
There's no quit in RDR but his gas tank looked like dogshit vs Bobby. Only because Bobby's looked even worse did RDR squeak that one out. The fight wasn't even high paced and both guys looked gassed by the end of rd 2.

Allen is a solid but not great fighter but imo he's looked more fresh late in 5 rounders than RDR has. Fluffy was an absolute nightmare for RDR with that endless pace and cardio so Allen is obviously not that, but he's far from an easy out for RDR.

I'm just gonna leave this little bump right here..😎

To be fair...I was spot on about everything other than there being no quit in RDR. Turns out there's at least a little quit in him.
 
You guys takeaways from the fight?
You can't rely only on a strong guard against top guys in 2025. Extremely small chance you'll catch the sub. Extremely high chance you'll just get beaten up.

And cardio is and will forever be king in combat sports.
 
Brendan Allen impressed me but not sure if he has turned a corner or if rdr is absolute shit. Makes me so sad because this is proof Whittaker never comes close to gold again. Rdr had him in a position to punish him and went after weird subs. He showed terrible fight iq and even worse will to win. He was hoping the ref would save him after the 3rd round. Allen vs Caio should be next. I also feel like a fool for thinking rdr was going to beat fluffy. Im almost certain this would have been even worse for him had hernandez made it to the fight
 
Such a shitty lame fight. I guess Costa punked out, dude acts like he's that dude but when time comes doesnt actually want it.

Imavov might just get the shot now. He's most deserving but the least interesting fight. I'd rather they just gave RDR the title shot and made a new main event for this card.
So glad they didn't just give the titleshot to RDR. Knew he wasn't as good as people were claiming. Khamzat would have absolutely destroyed him.
 
Brendan Allen impressed me but not sure if he has turned a corner or if rdr is absolute shit. Makes me so sad because this is proof Whittaker never comes close to gold again. Rdr had him in a position to punish him and went after weird subs. He showed terrible fight iq and even worse will to win. He was hoping the ref would save him after the 3rd round. Allen vs Caio should be next. I also feel like a fool for thinking rdr was going to beat fluffy. Im almost certain this would have been even worse for him had hernandez made it to the fight
RDR is good but he's absolutely not as good as people seemed to think. If people watched his fight with Whittaker and Gerald and still thought this guy was champ material, I'm not sure what to tell those people.
 
I’ve said it in other threads in the past: Dana almost always sets up stars of competitor orgs for failure. We have several examples this year from PFL too. He just let RDR catch a little more runway early on so that he could fall harder now. Or it was because RDR was critical of ONE, so Dana let him have a little bit of shine first.

This helps the UFC’s marketing by getting these former champs “exposed” as not being on the UFC’s level. Same thing Chatri did by getting Sage’s face shattered to show ONE is harder. Basic promotional playbook.

This doesn’t happen with guys from feeder orgs that Dana perceives as being friendly and useful to the UFC.
 
Bobby gassing so hard vs RDR in retrospect makes ZERO sense. I guess punching doesnt tire RDR quite like scrambling does
 
Brendan Allen impressed me but not sure if he has turned a corner or if rdr is absolute shit. Makes me so sad because this is proof Whittaker never comes close to gold again. Rdr had him in a position to punish him and went after weird subs. He showed terrible fight iq and even worse will to win. He was hoping the ref would save him after the 3rd round. Allen vs Caio should be next. I also feel like a fool for thinking rdr was going to beat fluffy. Im almost certain this would have been even worse for him had hernandez made it to the fight


We've seen enough of Allen, he isn't a contender. Great win though and exposed RDR big time.
 
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