\u201cAll-In\u201d is going all-in.<\/p>\n
No. 11-ranked<\/a> Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Middleweight contender, Brendan Allen, is stepping up on short notice<\/a> to face surging Dutch contender, Reinier de Ridder, in UFC Vancouver<\/a>\u2019s re-worked main event next month (Sat., Oct. 18, 2025) inside Rogers Arena in Vancouver, Canada.<\/p>\n Allen, stepping into his fourth UFC main event spotlight, believes his mix of striking, toughness and grappling will be too much for de Ridder when the Octagon door slams shut.<\/p>\n \u201cI think I\u2019ll break him because I\u2019m better everywhere,\u201d Allen said in a video on his Instagram. \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<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cI think [Robert Whittaker] is kind of washed<\/a>, to be honest,\u201d Allen added. \u201cHe\u2019s never fought a young, hungry guy like me \u2014 that\u2019s just as big as him. I have a lot of respect for him for not hiding behind his number. He didn\u2019t have to take this fight. Big respect to him.\u201d<\/p>\n Allen (25-7) recently returned to the win column, defeating rival<\/a> Marvin Vettori via unanimous decision. While setbacks to Anthony Hernandez and Nassourdine Imavov temporarily stalled his title run, Allen had previously rattled off seven straight wins (five via finish).<\/p>\n The key storyline heading into UFC Vancouver will be the grappling.<\/p>\n Indeed, both Allen and de Ridder are elite submission threats, but Allen believes his MMA-specific grappling gives him the edge. After all, he\u2019s already submitted two of the division\u2019s most feared grappling specialists in Paul Craig and Andre Muniz (watch highlights<\/a>).<\/p>\n With less than one month to go before fight night, fans won\u2019t have to wait long to see who comes out on top in this high-stakes, 185-pound clash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cAll-In\u201d is going all-in. No. 11-ranked Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Middleweight contender, Brendan Allen, is stepping up on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,82,702,3194],"class_list":["post-162746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}