This weekend, he looks to claim the biggest scalp of his campaign in Hrgovic<\/a>, the world-level, well-schooled and durable Croatian, whose only defeat has come against new world champion Daniel Dubois.<\/p>\nDespite still viewing a headline slot at London\u2019s O2 Arena against Lucas Browne as the greatest achievement of his career, Allen will fight in front of 10,000 home fans at the Keepmoat Stadium in Doncaster, and the significance of that has not passed him by.<\/p>\n
He has clearly trainer hard, tipping the scales at 248.8lbs. It is an impressive drop from the 271 he weighed in his last outing \u2013 a first round blowout of Karim Berredjem in February. In fact, it is the lowest weight Allen has registered since his 2019 loss to David Price.<\/p>\n
Speaking on the transformation, \u2018Dazzling\u2019 Dave said:<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve just ate less chocolate, less sweets \u2026 People talk about sacrifice but I\u2019m very fortunate really. I spend a lot of time with my family, my kids and I box for a living. Everyone in here doing 9-5, that\u2019s a sacrifice. It would be unfair to me to talk about sacrifice, I live my dream every day. Sometimes in the gym it\u2019s hard, sometimes I want to eat stuff, but I\u2019m gonna walk out to 10,000 people in Doncaster against one of the best heavyweights in the world. That was my dream and I\u2019m about to live it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Regardless of his shape, most see Hrgovic as too big a mountain to climb for Allen. He is aware of that, but believes he can produce one of the biggest upsets ever seen on UK shores.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s a great fighter, but I\u2019ve got no fear of him. All week he\u2019s trying to tell me I don\u2019t want to look at him. I couldn\u2019t care less about Filip Hrgovic. It\u2019s a boxing match.<\/p>\n
\u201cOn paper I shouldn\u2019t even be in the ring with him, but I just feel like tomorrow, in Donny, it\u2019ll be a special night and I\u2019m gonna get one of the biggest upsets in British boxing history.\u201d<\/p>\n
Should Allen fail to upset the odds, and Hrgovic comes out with the win unscathed, he is widely expected to face Moses Itauma in August.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dave Allen has delivered on his promise to come into his clash with Filip Hrgovic in decent shape.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-586010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}