Brendan Allen improved, ‘I simply have his quantity’

Anthony Hernandez expects to get the very best of Brendan Allen once more of their rematch.

Hernandez (13-2 MMA, 7-2 UFC) and Allen (24-6 MMA, 12-3 UFC) run issues again at a UFC Combat Evening occasion on Feb. 22. Of their first struggle, which passed off in January 2018, Hernandez defeated Allen by unanimous resolution to say the vacant LFA middleweight title.

At present driving a six-fight successful streak – together with a Efficiency of the Evening TKO of Michel Pereira, Hernandez sees a struggle towards Allen as the right subsequent step, and he hopes it finally ends up being one other five-round struggle.

“It made sense,” Hernandez advised Inside Combating. “He known as me out and it’s like, ‘All proper, nicely if you wish to f*cking run it again. It’s the proper alternative as a result of clearly he’s forward of me. He’s been wholesome and he’s been successful and stuff, and like the child’s gotten a lot f*cking higher. I simply suppose I’ve his quantity.”

Regardless of successful their first assembly, Hernandez says he wasn’t as ready as he wished to be.

“I bear in mind the primary struggle was a f*cking b*tch – I’m not going to lie,” Hernandez stated. “It was very laborious, however I additionally was harm, and I didn’t prepare for that struggle. I lowkey took it off the sofa. It’s what it’s. I nonetheless gained, so it labored out. However I’m stoked that this struggle I’m wholesome.

“I’m really going to have a very good camp, and I perceive the sport now. I’ve received this sh*t dialed in, so now it’s simply go on the market and do what I ought to have executed the primary time. The primary time was a chance I couldn’t go as a result of I gained that, and I received the Contender Sequence shot.”