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A 21-4 southpaw sitting seventh at 145 pounds — here's what Arnold Allen's record, rank, and physical profile say on paper.
Arnold Allen, nicknamed “Almighty,” is an English featherweight carrying a 21-4-0 record into the deep end of the division. That’s twenty-one wins against just four losses — the kind of ledger that doesn’t happen by accident in a 145-pound weight class stacked with talent. Right now he sits at #7 in the Featherweight rankings, firmly inside the top ten and within shouting distance of the contenders above him.
At 32 years old, Allen is in the stretch of a career where experience and physical prime overlap. He fights out of England, one of the flag-carriers for British featherweights on the world stage.
We won’t invent tendencies the data doesn’t show, but the physical profile tells its own story:
That 70-inch reach is generous for a featherweight standing 5’ 8" — his arms outrun his height, giving him length to work behind. Pair that with a southpaw stance and you get the classic awkward-angles problem for orthodox opponents: the lead hand lines up differently, the power side sits where defenders least want it, and every exchange starts from a geometry most fighters see less often. Reach plus southpaw is a combination that, on paper, rewards a fighter who likes to control range and dictate distance rather than get dragged into a phone-booth war.
At 32, he’s not a raw prospect learning on the job — he’s a fighter who has had years to refine what that frame can do.
Here’s where the picture gets honest. Allen’s recent run reads:
That’s a mixed, up-and-down stretch — two wins traded against three losses, and the losses came against serious names. Dropping decisions to Movsar Evloev and Max Holloway is not the same as falling apart; those are opponents who test the very top of the division. The most recent result in the sequence, a win over Melquizael Costa, is the important one: it snaps the run in the right direction and puts a fresh mark in the win column heading forward.
So the story is a contender who has been in with the division’s elite, taken his lumps, and answered back with a win. The #7 ranking reflects exactly that — respected enough to share the cage with the best, still fighting to prove he belongs a rung or two higher.
A few threads worth tracking with Allen:
Arnold Allen is a proven top-ten featherweight in a division that never stops churning — a southpaw with real reach, a strong overall record, and something to prove after a mixed recent run. His next bout isn’t confirmed yet, so this is the moment to get him on your radar before it is. When it lands, put him in your grid, call the winner, and see how your read stacks up against your friends’. That’s the whole game — pick the fighter, back the call, watch it play out.