{"id":577894,"date":"2026-04-01T05:43:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T05:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/577894\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T05:43:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T05:43:07","slug":"dave-allen-filip-hrgovic-stick-to-straight-talk-in-first-fight-presser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/577894\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Allen, Filip Hrgovic stick to straight talk in first fight presser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;\">\u201cIn comparison to Dubois and [Zhilei] Zhang, I can\u2019t punch for toffee \u2013 I mean, I\u2019ve got no power at all in comparison,\u201d Allen said. \u201cI\u2019m not a big puncher at the highest level. I\u2019m clever, I\u2019m tough, I\u2019m awkward. I think, with Filip, I\u2019m not gonna try and knock him out. I want to irritate him. I\u2019m gonna make him miss, I\u2019m gonna push him back. He\u2019s gonna turn up on May 16 and think he\u2019s in for an easy night, and when we get two, three, four, five rounds in, he\u2019s gonna think, \u2018Wow, I can\u2019t really hit this fella.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIn comparison to Dubois and [Zhilei] Zhang, I can\u2019t punch for toffee \u2013 I mean, I\u2019ve got no&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":577895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,23809,58050,28427,28428,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-577894","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-dave-allen","12":"tag-filip-hrgovic","13":"tag-frank-warren","14":"tag-queensberry","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577894","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=577894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}