Dricus du Plessis has been quiet following UFC Vancouver, and one winner on the card thinks he knows why.<\/p>\n
Brendan Allen stepped up on short notice to fight Reinier de Ridder in the main event of UFC Vancouver inside Rogers Arena. Allen replaced an injured Anthony Hernandez. \u201cAll In\u201d capitalized on his opportunity, forcing de Ridder to quit on his stool<\/a> before the start of the fifth round.<\/p>\n During an interview with MMAJunkie.com<\/a>, Allen, who has beef<\/a> with du Plessis over the past few months, noticed that the former UFC Middleweight Champion was silent after his latest win.<\/p>\n \u201cDricus always has something to say when I\u2019m losing because he knows I\u2019m a super tough test and I can probably beat him,\u201d Allen told MMA Junkie. \u201cObviously he\u2019s a fighter so he\u2019s going to think he\u2019s going to beat me, but he knows it\u2019s a tough test. It\u2019s easy to say when I\u2019m losing when you know you\u2019re not going to fight me next, but now it\u2019s like, it could happen. When I was super close on a big win streak and it was a possibility, he was super quiet like a mouth in church.<\/p>\n \u201cNow you don\u2019t hear anything from him, but what can you really say now. He literally just got dominated. Not a close fight. Not had moments. None of that. You got dominated for 25 minutes. I\u2019ll be nice and say you got dominated for 23.5 minutes. What can you really say? To me that\u2019s a huge word: Dominated. To me that\u2019s a very big word. It carries a lot of weight. That means you did nothing. You had nothing really for the other guy at all. That\u2019s what happened, and you were supposed to be the champion and you got dominated? That\u2019s not supposed to happen at that level.\u201d<\/p>\n Allen has moved himself into the top five rankings in the UFC\u2019s middleweight division. He might be due for a big fight that would get him closer to a title opportunity.<\/p>\n