{"id":231577,"date":"2025-10-22T09:48:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T09:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/231577\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T09:48:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T09:48:08","slug":"arnold-allen-attacked-on-street-for-not-speaking-french","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/231577\/","title":{"rendered":"Arnold Allen Attacked On Street For Not Speaking French"},"content":{"rendered":"

UFC featherweight contender, Arnold Allen revealed on his YouTube channel this week that he was attacked on the street for not speaking French. Whilst travelling for training in Montreal, Canada, Allen addressed the marks on his face during his UFC 321<\/a> preview.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got a different set up at the minute, in Montreal currently training for stuff and I got beat up, erm in the street because I wasn\u2019t using French. Erm, yeah I got jumped because I didn\u2019t speak French. That\u2019s what the bruises are all about, don\u2019t worry about it\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Allen has been travelling to Montreal to train out of Tristar Gym<\/a> for a number of years to train under the tutelage of Firas Zahabi. The Canadian gym was made famous for housing Georges Saint-Pierre, Rory MacDonald and a whole host of high-level UFC stars.<\/p>\n

Arnold Allen \u2013 Difficult Predicament<\/p>\n

Arnold Allen is currently ranked #6 in the featherweight division, however, he has struggled to get a fight in recent months. Although he\u2019s never been an extremely active fighter, the Brit hasn\u2019t competed in 2025, nor is he scheduled.<\/p>\n

His last performance came against Giga Chikadze in July 2024. He\u2019s one of the most inactive fighters on the UFC roster<\/a> at the moment. He\u2019s been on the UFC roster for 10 years, however, has only had 13 fights.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s got a high ceiling, having headlined two fight night cards and recording big wins on his resum\u00e8. He has an exciting style and only loses to the elites of the division. He only has two promotional losses on his record, to former dominant champion, Max Holloway<\/a> (across five rounds) and a competitive bout<\/a> with Movsar Evloev<\/a> (an undefeated phenom).<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>April 15, 2023, Kansas City, MO, Missouri, USA: KANSAS Kansas City, MO, MISSOURI \u2013 APRIL 15: L-R Max Holloway and Arnold Allen fight in a featherweight bout during UFC Fight Night Kansas City \u2013 Holloway vs Allen at T-Mobile Center on April 15th, 2023 in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. Kansas City, MO USA \u2013 ZUMAp175 20230415_zsa_p175_162 Copyright: xMattxDaviesx<\/p>\n

What\u2019s next for Arnold Allen? If he\u2019s out in Montreal, he could be closing in on a potential return. If the UFC return to England for their annual March card, expect Allen to feature highly on that card, maybe even in the main event. If Lerone Murphy<\/a> doesn\u2019t get the next title shot, an all British affair could be on the cards. If not, Jean Silva or Youssef Zalal could make for logical match-ups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC featherweight contender, Arnold Allen revealed on his YouTube channel this week that he was attacked on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-231577","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-mma","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231577","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=231577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}