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<\/p>\nDave Allen has pound signs and a happy ride off into the sunset in mind as he seeks to upset the odds once more.<\/p>\n
The White Rhino will headline Sheffield Arena for the biggest fight of his career on October 11 when he takes on the powerful Arslanbek Makhmudov.<\/p>\n
It is deemed a significant step up in opponent for the Brit, who himself showcased his own punch ferocity with a devastating knockout victory over Johnny Fisher in May.<\/p>\n
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Joseph Parker has challenged the undisputed champion Oleksandr Usyk to face him next month with his unique rendition of ‘Take on Me’. Footage courtesy of IG: @kerryrusselltv.<\/p>\n
“I think I thrive off the underdog tag I’ve had most of my career, every time I’ve been expected to win I get beat, I’m not very good with pressure,” Allen told Sky Sports.<\/p>\n
“That’s why I picked Makhmudov, I think a lot of people will expect him to beat me but I like that and I like to shock.<\/p>\n
“When he gets in there with me, most fighters when they get in there with me are a little surprised that I’m more defensively cuter than they expect, I’m a lot stronger than they think.<\/p>\n
“I think I can beat him, I am the underdog but I think I’ve got the right style to beat him.”<\/p>\n
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Tyson Fury was seen at Doncaster Racecourse, where he was asked when we can next expect to see him back in the ring.<\/p>\n
Makhmudov arrives 20-2 in his professional career, having been undefeated through 18 fights before suffering a fourth-round stoppage against world title contender Agit Kabayel in December 2023.<\/p>\n
He has since also been beaten by Italy’s Guido Vianello between wins over Ricardo Brown and Miljan Rovcanin.<\/p>\n
Allen meanwhile enters 24-7-2 amid a storied career as one of the most popular figures in British boxing, reignited by his win over Fisher having been controversially been denied victory in the pair’s first meeting.<\/p>\n
“The motivation is I’ll be really rich if I beat him,” said Allen.<\/p>\n
“If I beat him then wow, I’ll be so rich it’s unbelievable.<\/p>\n
“I’m not bothered about him, I just want to beat him, have another big fight and then hopefully chill out for the rest of my life. That’s the plan.”<\/p>\n
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This content is provided by Spreaker, which may be using cookies and other technologies. Unfortunately we have been unable to verify if you have consented to Spreaker cookies. Enable Cookies<\/a> Promoter Eddie Hearn joked of his disbelief in Allen’s decision to face Makhmudov, but the 33-year-old welcomes the challenge as a perfect opportunity to tee up another high-profile fight.<\/p>\n “When you headline Sheffield Arena, Naseem Hamed did, Kell Brook did, Dalton Smith, it’s my turn now,” said Allen.<\/p>\n “When I got the list of names sent, I thought I might as well make the most of it and I picked Makhmudov.<\/p>\n “He’s big, dangerous, somebody that will help fill Sheffield Arena out and if I beat him it will send me on to big fights.”<\/p>\n Allen first fought at Sheffield Arena back in April 2013; over a decade on, he is preparing to headline there.<\/p>\n “I’m over the moon, it’s something I’ve always wanted to do,” he said.<\/p>\n “I’ve been in touch with Naseem Hamed about doing the ring walk with me.<\/p>\n “It’s great to join that list of names, I’m from Doncaster but to headline Sheffield Arena I’m really proud of it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dave Allen has pound signs and a happy ride off into the sunset in mind as he seeks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-49010","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\/49010","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=49010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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