Britain’s Arnold Allen will take on Jean Silva in an intriguing featherweight bout that could push Allen closer to a title bout.<\/p>\n
Brazil’s Silva, 29, caused the biggest stir at the news conference, encouraging barking from his fans and trying to present an intimidating presence as he stepped on stage wearing sunglasses and a black hooded robe.<\/p>\n
The sunglasses stayed on as Silva riled up his supporters and said he had achieved “five times more” in two years in the UFC than Allen’s 10 in the organisation.<\/p>\n
“I don’t have a clue what’s going on,” said Allen as he struggled to follow Silva’s comments through the translator and the barking.<\/p>\n
Allen, 31, sits sixth in the rankings and told BBC Sport that Silva was the best option towards his goal of securing a shot at featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski.<\/p>\n
“I want to end the year as the number one contender or have that title fight confirmed,” he said.<\/p>\n
“You want to fight the best guys and he’s very dangerous and makes a lot of noise, so it’s exciting being in the Premier League.<\/p>\n
“Every team is good and you have to play them all, so I want to be the best and I’m happy to play every team.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Britain’s Arnold Allen will take on Jean Silva in an intriguing featherweight bout that could push Allen closer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-431894","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431894","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=431894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}