{"id":169059,"date":"2025-09-25T20:03:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T20:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/169059\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T20:03:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T20:03:06","slug":"hearn-teases-huge-fight-for-dave-allen-after-makhmudov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/169059\/","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":166268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-169059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}