Reinier de Ridder loses to Brendan Allen at UFC Fight Night in Canada

De Ridder’s four-fight UFC winning streak was snapped aft helium was incapable to proceed against Brendan Allen.

Brendan Allen shook up the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) middleweight part successful a large way, handing Reinier de Ridder his archetypal promotional nonaccomplishment by securing a method knockout (TKO) aft the Dutchman’s country deemed him incapable to proceed up of Round 5.

De Ridder was visibly exhausted successful his neutral country astatine UFC Fight Night successful Vancouver connected Saturday night, starring to the abrupt ending successful the main lawsuit of mixed martial arts (MMA).

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Allen (26-7 MMA) avoided de Ridder’s (21-3 MMA) devastating kickboxing quality by utilising his wrestling and controlling de Ridder with strikes from the apical position.

De Ridder had fewer answers for the American fighter, arsenic Allen stepped successful connected abbreviated announcement aft replacing chap contender Anthony Hernandez (15-2, 1 no-contest MMA).

“It feels bully to bash precisely what I said I would do,” Allen said. “This was maine 3 and a fractional weeks disconnected the couch. I told you I’m a antithetic monster. When my caput is wide and we’re on, I’m the champion successful the world.”

With the UFC’s middleweight logjam successful afloat effect, Allen said post-fight helium has done capable to gain a rubric changeable other champion Khamzat Chimaev (15-0 MMA).

“Come get it, baby,” Allen said.

De Ridder had not mislaid successful 19 months.

Allen (blue gloves) connected apical of de Ridder (red gloves) during UFC Fight Night astatine Rogers Arena [Simon Fearn/Imagn Images via Reuters]

An exhausted de Ridder is forced to propulsion successful the towel betwixt the 4th and 5th rounds [Simon Fearn/Imagn Images via Reuters]

In the co-main event, welterweight Mike Malott (13-2-1 MMA) dodged a slug by avoiding a no-contest against Kevin Holland (28-15 MMA) aft Holland’s protective shorts cupful was compromised from a Malott limb footwear gone incorrect aboriginal successful the fight.

A Malott arm-triangle choke effort successful the 3rd circular was not capable to unafraid the triumph either. Malott was yet awarded the highly competitory five-round combat via decision: 29-28, 29-28, 29-28.

Aiemann Zahabi won his bantamweight bout by determination against erstwhile rubric challenger Marlon Vera (23-11-1 MMA). The last people had Zahabi victorious by a judges’ people of 29-28, 28-29, 29-28.

In women’s flyweight action, erstwhile rubric challenger Manon Fiorot (13-2 MMA) delivered a devastating TKO implicit Canada’s Jasmine Jasudavicius (14-4 MMA), acceptable up by a flurry of punches to unafraid the stoppage triumph astatine 1:14 of the opening round.

Allen, centre, reacts aft winning the combat against de Ridder [Simon Fearn/Imagn Images via Reuters]