UFC Vegas 122 Post-Fight Show | Reaction To Brendan Allen's Late Finish In Main Event

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All right, everybody, those are the Victory Horns, and they sound for Covington, Louisiana's own Brendan Allen. He had to work a little harder for this one than I'm sure he expected. I know I expected, a lot of other people expected. He gets the submission in round five against a very game, Christian Leroy Duncan, to cap off an event that happened at UFC Vegas 122 There were a lot of finishes. There were way worse ways we could have spent a Saturday night, and all the stakes on this card really were in the main event. And Brendan Allen, in an absolute must-win spot, needed to get this done, needed to get a win to stay, not just in the top five, but probably in any sort of title contention for the foreseeable future. And when the going got tough, he comes through in round five, gets the rear naked choke, gets the tap, and gets another victory. Four straight wins for Brendan Allen, Christian Leroy Duncan's five fight. Win Street comes to an end, and there's a lot to talk about here. When it comes to UFC Vegas 122, I am Mike Heck. Thank you for joining us. Whether it is on the all new SB Nation app, on YouTube, Twitch, Twitter, Kik, Facebook, we are everywhere. So thank you so much for joining us. I know there's other things going on in the wonderful world of sports. There's college football, some drama going on, and some big games. So thank you for joining us. But let's just get right into this. Get right into the main event. We're still waiting on bonuses, but we had 12 fights. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. Nine finishes. Nine finishes out of 12 fights. So again, this is one of those cards where it's just like, it was a very APEX-y event. There were a lot of finishes. There were a lot of weird bits of matchmaking here. A lot of non-competitive bits of matchmaking. And then once we got to the main card, things got a little more interesting, a little more competitive, especially with the Malcolm Wellmaker fight. We'll get into that, but it was all capped off with the middleweight main event. We talked about it on the preview show. We talked about it on other shows coming into it. This is not do or die for both Brendan Allen and Christian Leroy Duncan in terms of their title hopes. At least in my eyes, this was do or life support, especially for Brendan Allen, Christian Leroy Duncan as well. But Brendan Allen gets it done. He maintains his position in the rankings. Christian Leroy Duncan has to go back to the drawing board, and it is going to take him a super duper long time to get back into this position. He's probably going to have to rattle off another four or five fights before we start talking about him getting top five competition. And it's not because he's not like a good fighter. He is. He showed me a lot tonight. He's just in a division that does not move very much, and there's a lot of star power up there. So the stakes in this fight was not just, it's not really like whoever wins this is getting a title shot. There was no hope whatsoever for either of these guys to get a title shot coming off of this unless something weird happens. This is not a title eliminator. This is nothing like that. It was two guys ranked around the same battling to maintain their spot while completely knocking the other dude off the fence altogether. And you could tell that. You could tell when things got real grammy out there. The first round was very close. Brendan gets a takedown. CLD comes out like a bat out of hell. Allen gets some dominant positions, makes some mistakes. CLD is able to get back to his feet. He's able to land some shots, able to get back in position, wins the first round. Actually, now that we talk about it, let's see if we have the scorecards here. I'm curious to see how this is scored. And there you have it. I scored round one 10-9 for Christian Leroy Duncan. Thought it was pretty clear cut. 10-9, especially with the comeback. There's some weird stuff going on in the first round. Brendan Allen was complaining about extended fingers, they may have gotten an eye poke. I think there was some grabbing on the top of the fence. There's a lot of stuff going on. I'm just like, ooh, this is getting a little chippy. CLD, better be careful. And then round two, Brendan Allen gets poked in the eye real bad about 30 seconds into the round. And shout out to the goat, to the legend, Mark Goddard, who, listen, we've been asking for this type of shit for so long for a referee to grow some balls and make a call. I know a lot of them like, well, you know, the pain, the win and show money, all this stuff. We don't want to be responsible for the result of a fight. But in every other sport, like you commit a foul of any kind, you're penalized for it. And shout out to Mark Goddard, takes a point. I thought it was fantastic stuff. Honestly, like when someone asked me, like, what are you going to remember UFC Vegas 122 for? Some pretty decent refereeing. We had a point deduction in the first fight, which I loved. And then we had one in this fight, which I really loved. Shout out to Mark Goddard. This was the moment of the card for me. Him just stepping on, being like, you know what? Get over here. We're taking a point. CLD couldn't believe it. A lot of other people couldn't believe it. Heck, I couldn't believe it. But Mark Goddard did the damn thing, takes the point. Brendan Allen wins that round pretty handily, plus the point deduction. It's a 10-8 round, so Brendan is in a good spot. Despite it being 1-1, he's up a round. I thought Brendan Allen clearly won the third round. It was closer, but I thought he won the third round. CLD tried to close the gap a little bit, but it just was a little bit too little too late. That's how all the judges scored that round as well. And then round four, CLD has his best round of the fight, in my opinion. Brendan's sitting there trying to sort of figure out the movement and stuff. He's trying to throw some shots. Not as many as I would have liked to have seen, but it seems like he might have taken the round off. That seems to be the general consensus. That's what Alan Joe Ban thought might have happened. And then round five, Brendan gets the fight back to the ground, gets the hooks in, waits for the moment, slaps on the choke. CLD tries to grab the fence, made no difference. Brendan circles around a little bit, gets the tap. Big win for Brendan Allen. And now he remains in a decent spot. And then he gets on the microphone and he says, hey, I fought backwards the last two fights, fought two young, hungry guys. I think something cool is gonna come my way. Either it's a title fight, or I think he called him Dickus instead of Dricus, and I didn't like that too much. It wasn't a great post fight interview from Brendan Allen, but yeah, man, I think you gotta give him Dricus du Plessis at this point, whenever he's ready to come back. But if I'm Brendan Allen, I'll tell you what, if something goes down with that Bo Nickle-Joe Pfeiffer fight, you better be ready. Get yourself on that speed dial, because if something happens and one of those two dudes can't go in December, you gotta get your ass in there and make a mark. Because if you go in there, win another fight, especially in that type of situation, the last events of the year, that puts you in a really good position in this really bogged down middleweight division. So great win for Brendan Allen. Shut up to CLD, man. I've always liked him, fun fighter. Didn't think he was a guy that was gonna challenge for a belt or anything like that. Top 10 quality guy. I thought we kind of saw his ceiling already. He was better than I thought, man. He showed me a lot tonight. He showed me a lot. His grappling has improved immensely. He was able to hang with Brendan Allen in certain situations. There was some real questionable decision making for CLD, I won't lie. Him kind of going to the grappling at certain points, I don't understand some of the decision making, once like kind of got his footing under him and realized like, all right, man, let's chill out a little bit. We don't need to go a thousand miles an hour. We could just cruise control at 75 Did a great job. He was picking Brendan apart a little bit, especially in that fourth round. But even in those tough grappling exchanges, he got, he was sweeping a little bit. He was able to get back to his feet a couple of times. So CLD showed me a lot. I was impressed with what he did, but the fight was a little closer than I thought. I thought Brendan would get a submission in this one. I thought it would happen around earlier, but yeah, good stuff. Middleweight continues to be super weird and interesting. And Brendan Allen just happens to be that guy that just continues to keep himself in the conversation. Still waiting on bonuses. We'll let you know what the bonuses are as soon as we get them. Maybe you guys see it before I do. I don't really know. But if I had to guess, who would I give bonus to? Let's take a look at the card real quick. I would do.