Brendan Allen shocks Reinier de Ridder in Vancouver

Last night, UFC Fight Night 262 took spot successful Vancouver, and the assemblage witnessed an unexpected middleweight showdown. Reinier de Ridder and Anthony Hernandez were primitively scheduled to fight, but Hernandez pulled retired owed to injury. In his place, connected abbreviated notice, was Brendan Allen, a ninth-ranked challenger, who wholly changed the people of the fight.

The archetypal circular went to RDR. The experienced Dutchman managed to instrumentality down Allen, get a "mount" and effort for a "submission", but to nary avail. The mediate of the 2nd circular brought a turning point. 

During the grappling sequence, RDR's effort to instrumentality Allen's backmost failed; Allen recovered himself connected apical and began to dominate. RDR's fatigue was evident, and helium mentally collapsed aft utilizing up his champion assets. Allen began to punish with punches and pressure, which helium continued done the 3rd round.

RDR attempted a "triangle choke" and an "armbar", but the fatigue was excessively much. By the extremity of the 3rd round, helium was hardly standing, and the doc adjacent had to cheque him earlier the 4th round. A overmuch fresher Allen picked up de Ridder, carried him astir the cage and "straw" him into a little position. After the 4th round, RDR was wholly breached and the combat was over.

"I've been grooming for 3 and a fractional weeks for this, I got disconnected the sofa to bash each this. When my caput is wide and erstwhile I'm successful there, I'm the champion successful the world," Allen said, calling retired champion Hamzat Chimaev. "If you privation a bully grappler and idiosyncratic who's young and hungry, I'm here. If not, Dricus Du Plessis, wherever are you? If helium can't bash that, past Sean Strickland and I person a rematch."

Mike Malott vs Kevin Holland

In the co-title fight, Mike Malott got the assemblage going by defeating Kevin Holland by unanimous decision. Also, Aiemann Zahabi defeated Marlon Vera, portion Kyle Nelson and Charles Jourdain delighted the location fans. Jasudavičius, however, was severely defeated by Manon Fiorot aft lone 74 seconds by knockout.

On the preliminary card, Drew Dober defeated Kyle Prepolec by TKO, portion Aori Qileng knocked retired Cody Gibson. Yousri Belgaroui knocked retired Azamat Bekoev and showed exceptional punch accuracy – helium deed 102 punches with a 73 percent occurrence rate.

All successful all, the nighttime was afloat of surprises, dominance and unexpected results, and Allen surely caught the attraction of the full UFC scene.