Brendan Allen submitted Christian Leroy Duncan in the fifth round in Las Vegas to derail the Briton’s middleweight title aspirations.<\/p>\n
Duncan, 31, came into the fight on a five-fight win streak and had said that he was eyeing a title bout next should he beat Allen in convincing fashion.<\/p>\n
After a back-and-forth encounter which left both fighters hopeful of securing victory in the final round, it was Allen who got his hand raised after securing a rear-naked choke.<\/p>\n
It is the 30-year-old American who is now targeting Sean Strickland’s belt after he extended his winning streak to four.<\/p>\n
“I think we’ll be rewarded next,” said Allen. <\/p>\n
“I’m doing what I need to do. Where’s the champion? If not, where’s Dricus [Du Plessis]? He’s been running for a while.”<\/p>\n
Duncan came into the contest 10th in the UFC’s middleweight rankings after earning a victory over former title challenger Jared Cannonier in July.<\/p>\n
Duncan was the busier striker of the two throughout, landing 138 shots to Allen’s 80, but the American prevailed in most of the grappling exchanges.<\/p>\n
An eye poke in the second round which led to a deducted point likely meant Duncan needed a finish in the final round, but it proved non-consequential anyway as Allen secured his eighth submission in the UFC.<\/p>\n
Victory extended the fifth-ranked middleweight’s record to 28 wins and seven defeats, while Duncan suffered the third loss of his 18-fight career.<\/p>\n
There was victory for fellow Briton Jai Herbert in the co-main event as he secured a unanimous decision win over Brazilian lightweight Matheus Camilo.<\/p>\n
It was the 38-year-old’s third win in four UFC fights, while Camilo suffered his second defeat in the promotion after triumphing in his two previous encounters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brendan Allen submitted Christian Leroy Duncan in the fifth round in Las Vegas to derail the Briton’s middleweight…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":924188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-924187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924187","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=924187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/924188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=924187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=924187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=924187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}