{"id":597549,"date":"2026-05-22T06:57:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T06:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/597549\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T06:57:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T06:57:19","slug":"dave-allen-next-fight-date-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/597549\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Allen next fight date announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Allen back in the ring next month<\/p>\n<p>Dave Allen (25-9-2, 20 KOs) has announced his next fight date on a small hall show in Rotherham on June 20.<\/p>\n<p>He aims to bounce back with a four or six-round heavyweight contest against a journeyman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJune 20th at Rotherham Magna I will be back in the ring,\u201d the likeable fighter posted on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI physically cannot sit and wait to get back in the ring after last week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFull transparency, it will be a journeyman type of opponent and the rounds will be 4 or 6.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTicket prices \u00a350 and \u00a385 ringside but those who came to the fight at the football ground last week or my fights at Skate Central few years ago, the tickets will be available at half the prices and with a free drink as I will be putting the money behind the bar for them so message @teamwhiterhino if you wanna come.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you wanna come, I just love to box and I wanna enjoy it and while I imagine and understand a lot won\u2019t be bothered travelling for me doing these smaller fights, I have to rebuild this way to get my head out my arse and get to my final destination one final big fight\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The 37th fight of his 14-year pro career will take place just 35 days after his last outing.<\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old Doncaster heavyweight was outclassed over three rounds in his last fight, May 16, by WBO #2 heavyweight Filip Hrgovic.<\/p>\n<p>Following the quick defeat, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Allen_(boxer)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Allen<\/a> said he plans to have four more fights and <a href=\"https:\/\/britishboxingnews.co.uk\/news\/dave-allen-reveals-next-fight-plans\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a UK tour<\/a> before hanging up his gloves. He plans to end the tour on a British title shot.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The White Rhino\u2019 previously said, \u201cPeople keep saying, \u2018well win the British title now\u2019, it\u2019s not that easy, I\u2019ve already lost to Frazer Clarke; won some, lost some at that level; I said to Eddie [Hearn] let\u2019s do a tour of the country and maybe culminate with the British title at the end of it, maybe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTouring the UK now, six and eight rounders, hopefully easy jobs and hopefully can culminate in boxing for the British title, maybe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rdxsports.com\/discount\/Rickson?ref=tim101&amp;utm_campaign=goaffpro_affiliate_program&amp;utm_medium=affiliate&amp;utm_source=goaffpro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-50942\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1779433039_285_Copy-of-Copy-of-Happy-HalloweeN-300-x-250-px.png\" alt=\"https:\/\/rdxsports.com\/discount\/Rickson?ref=tim101&amp;utm_campaign=goaffpro_affiliate_program&amp;utm_medium=affiliate&amp;utm_source=goaffpro\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dave Allen back in the ring next month Dave Allen (25-9-2, 20 KOs) has announced his next fight&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-597549","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\/597549","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=597549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}