Dave Allen has been offered another “big fight”, the heavyweight claimed today.<\/p>\n
The popular heavyweight from Doncaster, England, was defeated by Filip Hrgovic last month at the home of his local soccer team Doncaster Rovers. The fight was a mismatch, with Allen being stopped inside three rounds. <\/p>\n
Allen has fought Olympic medalists Hrgovic, Tony Yoka and Frazer Clarke, as well as world ranked contenders Dillian Whyte and Arslanbek Makhmudov, losing each time. Allen\u2019s biggest win is either his fifth round stoppage of Johnny Fisher in 2025 or his third round finish of Lucas Browne in 2019. <\/p>\n
Thankfully, Allen has been paid well of late, with his promoter Eddie Hearn claiming Allen has earned \u201cwell over \u00a31m\u201d in the last year for his contests with Fisher, Makhmudov and Hrgovic. <\/p>\n
However, Allen continues to fight.<\/p>\n
The 34-year-old revealed he would return against a \u201cjourneyman-like opponent\u201d in a bout on June 20 in Rotherham, England. He also announced this week that he will fight again on July 25 at the Doncaster Dome. Should he win those two bouts, Allen will secure another big fight.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll do a six-rounder in July and Eddie [Hearn] has offered me a fight today on a massive card,\u201d Allen told his Instagram followers. \u201cBig fight as well, not as big as the Hrgovic one, but a big fight on a huge card. I\u2019m going to go away and give it some thought, but yeah, I\u2019ve got to win June and July first.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not a massive fight, but it\u2019s a big fight on one of the biggest cards of the year. I said give me a bit of time. Probably box on June 20 and if I box well then I\u2019ll probably do it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Allen, 25-9-2 (20 KOs), was then asked by one of his followers if he fancied competing 14 more times to hit the milestone of 50 professional contests.<\/p>\n
\u201cDepends what day it is, not even what day, depends what time of day it is,\u201d Allen responded. \u201cSome days I think I\u2019m going to fight on forever, then some days I think I can\u2019t be arsed with it. It\u2019s not the sport, I do love boxing, I do enjoy doing it. It’s getting harder for me, I\u2019m getting older, I\u2019ve been at it a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n
However, even if offered a ludicrous amount of money, Allen sees the new craze of bare-knuckle boxing as a step too far.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo I wouldn\u2019t do it,\u201d he replied. \u201cI think it would get in the way of training and managing [my fighters]. I get a lot of enjoyment out of that. I\u2019m at a point in my life now where I’m not massively wealthy but I\u2019m comfortable. So I\u2019m quite happy at that point, I don\u2019t want to be massively rich. So being happy and doing what I enjoy is more important, so I wouldn\u2019t do it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dave Allen has been offered another “big fight”, the heavyweight claimed today. The popular heavyweight from Doncaster, England,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6102,10078,15919,6572,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-616089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxingscene","tag-dave-allen","tag-eddie-hearn","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616089","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=616089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}