Middleweight contender Brenden Allen is set for a big fight for his next match after claiming the #6 rank in the middleweight lineup. However, most of the top evenly matched opponents have already been paired up with equally deadly opponents except for Marvis Vettori, who the American doesn’t want to fight.
In April, Allen was scheduled to fight Vettori, but the Italian pulled out and was replaced with Chris Curtis. The fighter stepped up to battle Allen for the main event of the card. After his unanimous decision win, Allen doesn’t seem interested in a rebooking despite being below Verttori on the middleweight ranking. Speaking with Ag Fight, Allen explained.
“Nah I’m good, we’re past that. I’m that kind of guy you get, you offer me twice I say yes, yes and then I end up fighting somebody else both times or we don’t fight once and I fight somebody else the second time. Whatever the case may be, I’m over that guy. I’m good. To me, I’m number five guy in the world. On that piece of paper, I’m not. “
“I think the reasoning that I got was that his losses are higher ranked than mine or something like that. And I have no idea, but that was kind of the answer I got so, never heard of that before. I didn’t know we were going off of those types of statistics, because of his losses are higher ranked that is why he’s ahead of me in the rankings. But, even though he’s not active, he was supposed to fight and didn’t fight and I still fought.”
Though Allen is reportedly a laid-back fellow, he doesn’t seem to like ‘The Italian Dream’. Allen sees him as delusional due to some comments Verttori had made in the past. “No I don’t like him man. I always was told you can’t have a rational conversation with someone that’s irrational and that guy’s not even irrational, he’s just completely delusional. He’s the guy that thought he beat, he smashed Izzy all fights. I’m sure he probably thought he whooped Cannonier, he’s just a delusional guy. I just don’t like him, he’s always the one painting the finger at me saying I’m talking online. But when I see him, he’s the only one that does that. I don’t talk about him much because it gives him fame, I don’t like him at all, I think he’s a s***** person.”
