Dillian Whyte looks set to return to action on a Zuffa Boxing card, as rumours of a showdown with fan-favourite heavyweight Johnny Fisher pick up further momentum. Now, Dave Allen, who has faced both men, has offered his thoughts on the potential all-British affair.<\/p>\n
Whyte dealt Allen the first loss of his career back in 2016. Fast forward to recent times, and Allen avenged a controversial defeat to Fisher in 2025 when he knocked his fellow Brit out and derailed his career.<\/p>\n
Since then, Fisher has returned to winning ways with a stoppage of Ivan Balaz in Monaco, before announcing a move to Zuffa Boxing.<\/p>\n
This past weekend, Fisher was victorious on his debut with Dana White\u2019s promotional outfit, scoring a majority-decision triumph over Belgium\u2019s Michael Pirotton as he topped a well-matched bill at the CopperBox Arena in London.<\/p>\n
Shortly afterwards, Dillian Whyte\u2019s manager Michael Ofo told Sky Sports<\/a> that a fight between the former world title challenger and Fisher has been \u2018agreed in principle\u2019.<\/p>\n \u201cThe fight was agreed in principle following Fisher\u2019s win on Saturday night with a handshake between me and Fisher\u2019s manager, Adam Morallee,\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI was unsure whether Fisher and his management would take the fight, in spite of Fisher having called Dillian out, so I called Adam over and asked him. He immediately responded: \u2018Absolutely. Let\u2019s do it next!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n In response, Allen took to his YouTube channel<\/a> to rubbish claims that Whyte is completely over the hill, despite \u2018The Body Snatcher\u2019s\u2019 opening-round defeat to Moses Itauma last time out, insinuating that he believes the veteran would come out on top against Fisher.<\/p>\n \u201cPeople say \u2018oh, well Dillian Whyte is 30-odd, the Itauma fight\u2026\u2019. Dillian Whyte has got a good jab, he is tough as f**k and he has been the rounds. I wouldn\u2019t like that fight for him [Fisher].\u201d<\/p>\n Fisher has also been mentioned for a potential clash with former WBC heavyweight world champion, Deontay Wilder. Although, \u2018The Bronze Bomber\u2019 instead seems poised to be the opponent for Oleksandr Usyk\u2019s \u2018farewell fight\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dillian Whyte looks set to return to action on a Zuffa Boxing card, as rumours of a showdown…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":788599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-788598","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\/788598","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=788598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/788599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}