{"id":208003,"date":"2025-10-12T14:25:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T14:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/208003\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T14:25:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T14:25:07","slug":"dave-allen-has-no-doubt-who-wins-anthony-joshua-vs-arslanbek-makhmudov-hell-flatten-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/208003\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Allen Has No Doubt Who Wins Anthony Joshua vs Arslanbek Makhmudov: &#8220;He&#8217;ll Flatten Him&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/topic\/dave-allen\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dave Allen<\/a> has made his prediction for how a potential <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/topic\/anthony-joshua\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anthony Joshua<\/a> vs. Arslanbek Makhmudov fight would go.<\/p>\n<p>Allen himself went up against Makhmudov on Saturday, but struggled to deal with the imposing Russian giant, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cy505wq4vxro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">who won fairly comfortably by unanimous decision at the Sheffield Arena.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Following the win, Makhmudov was quick to call out Joshua, who hasn\u2019t competed for over a year following his fifth round knockout defeat to Daniel Dubois at Wembley Stadium in September 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Joshua was once the unified heavyweight champion of the world but hasn\u2019t held gold since losing to Oleksandr Usyk in 2021, and he is keen to try and reach the top again with only a few fights seemingly left in his career.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@boxingkingmedia\/video\/7560119465615068438?_r=1&amp;_t=ZN-90U9xlzWSxi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Speaking to Boxing King Media<\/a>, Allen first explained what it was like to go up against Makhmudov.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was good, you know. A lot of amateur experience. He was Russian number one for a long time. He can box, he\u2019s powerful. He was just a bit too good for me, to be honest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA bit too big and a bit too good. That\u2019s all right. It\u2019s not as easy [to let your hands go] when you\u2019re in like that. He\u2019s a powerful man, he can really punch. He\u2019s really tough as well. I\u2019m like a domestic-level heavyweight, he\u2019s a bit better than that. So it was hard work. I stuck it out and think I did all right, but come second best.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He then gave his prediction for a Joshua vs. Makhmudov fight, having also sparred \u2018AJ\u2019 on countless occasions in the past.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think I\u2019d pick Joshua to beat him. I think Joshua will flatten him in a couple rounds. But he\u2019s a dangerous guy though, so it\u2019d be a good fight while it lasted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite no longer being world champion, Joshua remains a target for plenty of fighters, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/news\/joshua-urged-to-face-man-who-wobbled-him\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">and was recently warned about facing another heavyweight contender.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>            <script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dave Allen has made his prediction for how a potential Anthony Joshua vs. Arslanbek Makhmudov fight would go.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-208003","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\/208003","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=208003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}