{"id":168862,"date":"2025-09-25T20:34:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T20:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/168862\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T20:34:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T20:34:08","slug":"hearn-teases-huge-fight-for-dave-allen-after-makhmudov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/168862\/","title":{"rendered":"Hearn teases huge fight for Dave Allen after Makhmudov"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eddie Hearn has laid down a life changing gauntlet to Dave Allen with a potential fight against Deontay Wilder in the offing if he conquers Arslanbek Makhumdov on October 11.<\/p>\n<p>The huge Heavyweight clash \u2013 broadcast live worldwide on DAZN \u2013 is heading for a sell-out at Sheffield\u2019s Utilita Arena.<\/p>\n<p>And Matchroom Sport chairman Hearn believes \u2018Cinderella Man\u2019 Allen is on course for more big fight nights in 2026, providing he can defeat the Canadian-based \u2018Lion\u2019 Makhmudov, who has 20 wins to his name, with 19 knockouts, having previously mixed it with the likes of Agit Kabayel, Carlos Takam and Mariusz Wach.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Dave Allen beats Makhmudov, he puts himself inline for some huge fights,\u201d said Hearn, speaking on the latest episode of Matchroom Boxing\u2019s Flash Knockdown Podcast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eddie Hearn has laid down a life changing gauntlet to Dave Allen with a potential fight against Deontay&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-168862","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-boxing","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}