Arnold Allen nearly didn’t make it to UFC 304 due to a serious car accident that occurred just a week before the event.
Allen explained that he had been trying to adjust to the early fight times by training late in the evening.
However, this adjustment led to a dangerous situation just a week before the fight when he got into a car accident:
After my last sparring, I was driving home because the time was f*cked up.
I underslept that day because my team — there was an event that night and people were fighting, so my team had to train earlier, so I came into sparring earlier.I was driving home half asleep and I spun my car out, and crashed it into a barrier somewhere.
That was on the way home after my last sparring. I was so tired, and it was pretty scary, I was facing the wrong way on the motorway.
He continued:
You don’t ever want to see the cars coming at you.
I’ve been driving since I was 19, that was my first crash.Definitely not ideal the Saturday before your fight, a few days out.
Fortunately, Allen was uninjured from the accident:
No one got hurt, didn’t hit anyone else, damaged my car a bit, and it was 100 percent because I was half asleep, stupid.
I was rushing home trying to get back to bed.So hopefully I never do that again because that sucked, and I damaged my car, which I’m pissed off about.
