{"id":212901,"date":"2025-10-14T14:27:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T14:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/212901\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T14:27:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T14:27:07","slug":"reinier-de-ridder-vs-brendan-allen-staredown-video-for-ufc-vancouver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/212901\/","title":{"rendered":"Reinier de Ridder vs. Brendan Allen staredown video for UFC Vancouver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">De Ridder (21-2) was originally slotted to face 185-pound phenom Anthony Hernandez; however, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-news\/389863\/huh-reiner-de-ridder-vs-brendan-allen-is-ufc-vancouvers-new-main-event-with-anthony-hernandez-pulled\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cFluffy\u201d was injured and forced to withdraw<\/a>, paving the way for Allen (25-7) to step in on (somewhat) short notice. \u201cThe Dutch Knight\u201d is six years older than \u201dAll In\u201d at 35.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Watch them come face-to-face below:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI think I\u2019ll break him because I\u2019m better everywhere,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-news\/390893\/brendan-allen-doesnt-fear-reinier-de-ridders-grappling-at-all-hes-never-fought-anyone-like-me\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Allen said on social media<\/a>. \u201cI don\u2019t think he can strike better than me. I don\u2019t think he\u2019s tougher than me. I don\u2019t think his grappling\u2019s better than mine. A lot of guys are scared of his grappling. I\u2019m not scared at all. He\u2019s pretty tough for a little while, but again, I don\u2019t think he\u2019s fought anyone like me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"De Ridder (21-2) was originally slotted to face 185-pound phenom Anthony Hernandez; however, \u201cFluffy\u201d was injured and forced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396,45879,1647],"class_list":["post-212901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news","tag-ufc-on-espn-fight-night","tag-upcoming-ufc-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}