Brendan
Allen wants to avenge his loss against Sean
Strickland.
Strickland is scheduled to challenge Khamzat
Chimaev for the middleweight title in the main event at
UFC 328 on May 9 at Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey.
Allen is currently training with Chimaev to prepare for his
upcoming fight against Edmen
Shahbazyan.
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Strickland recently went on an unprovoked tirade against Allen.
Strickland called Allen a woman who isn’t worth training with.
Strickland also said that his training partner Johnny
Eblen could “f*ck” Allen if he wanted to, though Eblen clearly
said he doesn’t intend to.
Allen says he doesn’t even know where Strickland’s hatred against
him stems from. Allen also doesn’t think highly of Eblen, who is
considered one of the best fighters outside the UFC. Allen believes
his
Kill Cliff FC training partner, Impa
Kasanganay, was robbed off a win against Eblen in 2024.
“All-In” also notes that his training partner Costello
van Steenis dethroned Eblen from the
Professional Fighters League middleweight title last year.
Allen suffered a TKO loss against Strickland in 2020 and is eager
to avenge his loss someday.
“I don’t even know where that came from, to be honest with you,”
Allen told Submission Radio. “He’s always talking about dude’s
getting fuc*ed and stuff, it’s weird. Then he says his boy wants to
f*ck me or whatever. His boy can’t even make it in the B-leagues.
Stay there, bro. I don’t care how many people say you’re good, it
doesn’t matter. When it shows up to fight, he got gifted a win
against my boy Impa, he got beat against my boy Costello. Stay in
the B-leagues bro, stay in the middle of the B-league. I’m down to
fight though. I was hoping that [the Strickland rematch] is the one
that I would get this time. I was excited to run that back for
sure… Everyone talks about TKOing me six years ago. I was 24, I’m
30 now. Let’s see how it fares now. I think he got lucky that
night, I made a stupid error.”
Coming off wins over Marvin
Vettori and Reinier
de Ridder, Allen (26-7) is scheduled to fight Shahbazyan at
UFC Vegas 117 on June 6. Meanwhile, Shahbazyan (16-5) is riding
a three-fight winning streak.