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Dricus Du Plessis vs Brendan AllenFantasy matchup — not a booked fight

#2 at Middleweight · #4 at Middleweight
Not a booked fightFANTASY MATCHUP — this fight is not booked. What our two blind models would say if it were.
Dricus Du Plessis
UFC 10-1 · Pro 24-3
#2 at Middleweight
VS
Brendan Allen
UFC 15-4 · Pro 27-7
#4 at Middleweight

If they fought

A statistical read on a fight that does not exist — no market, no booking, nothing to grade it against.

Dricus Du Plessis 67% Brendan Allen 33%

Run as an unbooked fight, the numbers favour Dricus Du Plessis at 67% — a clear lean.

Our two reads agree, and closely. Both land on Dricus Du Plessis — 67% on the first, 57% on the second, 10 points apart.

The same read puts the chance it goes the full distance at 48%.

KO/TKO
28%
Submission
15%
Decision
57%
These figures come from the same statistical reads we run on real cards, with the betting market removed — there is no market on a fight nobody has booked. Nothing here is timestamped against a result, nothing here is graded, and none of it counts towards our public record. It is a thought experiment with real numbers behind it.

Tale of the tape

Dricus Du Plessis vs Brendan Allen — the facts, side by side. ▲ marks the reach edge.

UFC 10-1UFC recordUFC 15-4
24-3Pro record27-7
StillknocksNicknameAll In
6' 1"Height6' 2"
76"▲Reach75"
SwitchStanceOrthodox
32Age30
185 lbs.Weight185 lbs.
South AfricaNationalityUnited States
Pretoria, GautengHometownMilwaukee, Wisconsin
Team CITFighting out ofKill Cliff FC
Vitals and record from public UFC statistics; nickname, nationality, hometown and camp from the public fighter register. The UFC record is counted from the official results themselves.

Stat-by-stat

Dricus Du Plessis (left) vs Brendan Allen (right) — career striking & grappling rates. The fighter ahead on each row is highlighted in their corner colour.

Strikes landed / min
5.21
vs
3.75
Striking accuracy
48%
vs
52%
Strikes absorbed / min
4.24
vs
3.78
Striking defence
54%
vs
47%
Takedowns / 15 min
1.9
vs
1.52
Takedown accuracy
48%
vs
41%
Takedown defence
50%
vs
57%
Sub attempts / 15 min
0.6
vs
1.1
Career averages from public UFC statistics. On “strikes absorbed / min”, fewer is better.

Fights that have happened between them

None.

Dricus Du Plessis and Brendan Allen have never met in the UFC.

Every matchup on this page is a pairing that has never happened. That is how they are chosen: if these two had already met in the Octagon, there would be a real result to read instead, and this page would not exist.

The real fighters

Everything above is hypothetical. These are not.

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