A middleweight showdown pitting Brendan
Allen against Paul Craig
will serve as the main event for an Ultimate Fighting Championship
card on Nov. 18.
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The promotion announced the pairing on Tuesday. UFC
Fight Night takes place at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas and also
includes a strawweight clash between Amanda
Ribas and Luana
Pinheiro.
Allen has gone 10-2 within the Las Vegas-based organization since
appearing on Dana White’s Contender Series in 2019. He enters the
matchup with Craig on a five-bout winning streak, with back-to-back
submission wins over Andre Muniz
and Bruno Silva
thus far in 2023. The former Legacy Fighting Alliance champion is
22-5 as a professional and has finished 18 of his victories inside
the distance.
Craig, meanwhile, made a successful 185-pound debut on July 22,
when he defeated Muniz via second-round TKO at UFC Fight Night 224.
Prior to that, the 35-year-old Scot went 8-6-1 at light heavyweight
in the Octagon, earning notable wins against the likes of Jamahal
Hill, Nikita
Krylov, Mauricio Rua
and Magomed
Ankalaev.