{"id":805782,"date":"2026-10-17T17:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T17:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/805782\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T17:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T17:48:09","slug":"dave-allen-sums-up-filip-hrgovics-chances-of-beating-daniel-dubois-in-rematch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/805782\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Allen sums up Filip Hrgovic’s chances of beating Daniel Dubois in rematch"},"content":{"rendered":"

After suffering a third-round stoppage defeat to Filip Hrgovic<\/a> in May, Dave Allen has considered whether the Croatian could exact his revenge on Daniel Dubois<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 34-year-old became his nation\u2019s first world heavyweight champion in August, claiming the vacant IBF title by scoring a dramatic ninth-round finish over Moses Itauma<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Prior to the stoppage, Hrgovic had suffered a second-round knockdown and was generally getting outclassed by his faster and more explosive opponent.<\/p>\n

By absorbing many of Itauma\u2019s best punches, though, \u2018El Animal\u2019 eventually capitalised on a window of opportunity to get the exhausted 21-year-old out of there.<\/p>\n

As a result, he is now set to face mandatory challenger Frank Sanchez in the new year, before targeting unification matches with the likes of Dubois and WBC champion Agit Kabayel.<\/p>\n

First, Dubois must retain his WBO title against Fabio Wardley this Saturday after surviving two knockdowns and scoring a 11th-round stoppage<\/a> in their May encounter.<\/p>\n

Then, if both heavyweights win their next respective contests, a rematch between the 29-year-old and Hrgovic could become realistic in 2027.<\/p>\n

Allen, meanwhile, has told talkSPORT<\/a> that, despite losing emphatically to Hrgovic earlier this year, he would confidently back Dubois to emerge victorious.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t see him overturning the Dubois fight. Hrgovic, when I boxed him \u2013 as strong as he was, as good as he was \u2013 didn\u2019t punch hard enough, in my opinion, to keep a guy like Daniel Dubois off him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dubois did, of course, win their first encounter via an eighth-round stoppage in June 2024, but only because Hrgovic had sustained cuts over both eyes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After suffering a third-round stoppage defeat to Filip Hrgovic in May, Dave Allen has considered whether the Croatian…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":805783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-805782","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\/805782","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=805782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/805783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}