Allen Takes the Long Road and the Back: Rear-Naked Choke Ends Duncan’s Streak in Round 5

Christian Leroy Duncan won the early range war, but Brendan Allen kept dragging the fight back to the mat and finished it with a rear-naked choke at 2:46 of the fifth, ending Duncan’s five-fight streak. Allen, now 16-4 in the UFC, used the microphone to point at the men above him, Sean Strickland and Dricus du Plessis among them, because a knight who has ridden this far is done tilting at the field.