{"id":720257,"date":"2026-06-07T03:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T03:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/720257\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T03:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T03:28:09","slug":"ufc-vegas-118-results-brendan-allens-gamble-pays-off-in-bloody-win-over-edmen-shahbazyan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/720257\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC Vegas 118 results: Brendan Allen\u2019s gamble pays off in bloody win over Edmen Shahbazyan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brendan Allen vs. Edmen Shahbazyan squared off in a Middleweight bout earlier tonight (Sat., June 6, 2026) at UFC Vegas 118<\/a> inside Meta Apex in Las Vegas, Nevada. In a fun and bloody fight, Allen extended his win streak to three.<\/p>\n

Allen came out aggressive, pressing forward and kicking at the lead leg. He didn\u2019t wait long to fire his right hand, which Shahbazyan avoided early on. Shahbazyan worked to establish the jab but was otherwise patient to start the contest. Allen started to time the jab, landing a couple rights. Midway through the round, Shahbazyan stuffed Allen\u2019s first takedown attempt nicely, but \u201cAll In\u201d was still leading the dance. A counter right hand finally scored for Shahbazyan with about a minute remaining, which definitely caught Allen\u2019s attention. After that land, Shahbazyan opened up more, landing solidly on a couple of occasions.<\/p>\n

Allen attacked with a flurry late, sealing a competitive round in his favor.<\/p>\n

Shahbazyan stuck a hard jab to start round two. Allen started opening exchanges with his right hand, which caught Shahbazyan off-guard on several occasions. Allen flurried and got deep on a takedown attempt, but he still couldn\u2019t drag down \u201cGolden Boy.\u201d The two began to brawl a bit, and both men landed from close quarters. Shahbazyan\u2019s jab continued to hum, but he wasn\u2019t throwing enough volume to quite match Allen\u2019s pressure and diversity of offense. Allen scored his best shots when mixing clinch knees and kicks into his combinations.<\/p>\n

With five minutes remaining, it was anyone\u2019s fight.<\/p>\n

Allen started the third hot, finding a home for his right hand lead and a nice elbow on the break of a clinch. He kept Shahbazyan\u2019s back close to the cage, limiting his movement. Shahbazyan\u2019s eye split open and blood poured down his chest. Shahbazyan\u2019s landing percentage, conversely, seemed to drop off a bit, as he struggled in the face of Allen\u2019s pressure and extended combinations. Allen did really nice work mixing elbows into his attack, interrupting the boxing flow of Shahbazyan.<\/p>\n

A final takedown late in the round served as the nail in Shahbazyan\u2019s coffin.<\/p>\n

This was a strange matchup from first booking, but Allen did his job well to earn the victory. When the takedown didn\u2019t land early on, he wasn\u2019t deterred, continuing to push the pace and mix up his offense. He took some jabs in the process, but Allen ultimately landed the heavier shots and bloodied up his opponent en route to the clear-cut victory.<\/p>\n

Is it finally time for that Dricus du Plessis grudge match?<\/p>\n

Result: Allen defeats Shahbazyan via unanimous decision<\/p>\n

For complete UFC Vegas 118 results and play-by-play, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brendan Allen vs. Edmen Shahbazyan squared off in a Middleweight bout earlier tonight (Sat., June 6, 2026) at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":720258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,82,139445,7788],"class_list":["post-720257","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-on-paramount","tag-ufc-results"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720257","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=720257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/720258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}