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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.
This article first appeared at Recent News on Sherdog.com
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