If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
That's the competitive mindset being carried by sixth-ranked UFC middleweight Brandon Allen as he heads into a Fight Night main event with a former foe, Chris Curtis, atop a 12-bout show at the promotion's Apex facility in Las Vegas.
Allen arrives on a six-fight win streak with five submission finishes across the last two-plus years since the most recent of his two octagonal losses, a second-round TKO that Curtis scored with a barrage of punches and knees along the fence in December 2021.
Curtis steps in as a replacement for No.