{"id":714349,"date":"2026-06-04T10:57:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T10:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/714349\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T10:57:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T10:57:22","slug":"edmen-shahbazyan-promises-good-night-vs-brendan-allen-at-ufc-vegas-118","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/714349\/","title":{"rendered":"Edmen Shahbazyan promises ‘good night’ vs. Brendan Allen at UFC Vegas 118"},"content":{"rendered":"

LAS VEGAS \u2013 Edmen Shahbazyan isn’t going to let Saturday’s UFC Fight Night 278<\/a> opportunity slip through his fingers.<\/p>\n

Shahbazyan (26-7 MMA, 14-4 UFC) is on the advantageous side of a unexpected matchup against top-ranked middleweight contender Brendan Allen (16-5 MMA, 9-5 UFC) at the META APEX (Paramount+<\/a>). A victory would flip the trajectory of his career, and although he’s rightfully the underdog, he vows not to mess it up.<\/p>\n

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“I wouldn’t take back anything that happened in the past,” Shahbazyan told MMA Junkie of his prior setbacks. “It’s God’s timing. Here we are. I’m a lot better fighter today. More mature, more established and Saturday night is going to be a good night. I promise.<\/p>\n

“He’s a good opponent. Tough fighter, durable fighter \u2013 but I’m ready for this moment. I’m ready to go Saturday night.”<\/p>\n

If Shahbazyan can win, and do so in style, he would vault into the upper echelon at 185 pounds. He’s certain that’s where he belongs, even if it might be a bit uncomfortable because his longtime Xtreme Couture teammate Sean Strickland<\/a> currently holds the belt.<\/p>\n

“I think I can fit in well to it given how the last (title) fight went,” Shahbazyan said. “It’s up for grabs in my opinion, and Sean is a good friend of mine. We train together. We’re main training partners. We always push each other hard.”<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: UFC Vegas 118: Edmen Shahbazyan promises ‘good night’ vs. Brendan Allen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS \u2013 Edmen Shahbazyan isn’t going to let Saturday’s UFC Fight Night 278 opportunity slip through his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":714350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[12404,49,48,258803,641,638,1302,35696,82,36996],"class_list":["post-714349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-brendan-allen","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edmen-shahbazyan","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-mma-junkie","tag-sean-strickland","tag-sports","tag-ufc-fight-night"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714349","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=714349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/714350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}