{"id":98440,"date":"2025-08-28T10:06:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T10:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/98440\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T10:06:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T10:06:07","slug":"joseph-parker-predicts-dave-allen-vs-arslanbek-makhmudov-hes-the-favourite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/98440\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Parker Predicts Dave Allen vs Arslanbek Makhmudov: “He’s The Favourite”"},"content":{"rendered":"

The heavyweight division is in flux right now, and Joseph Parker<\/a>, Dave Allen<\/a> and Arslanbek Makhmudov are three men with a chance to shine.<\/p>\n

All four of the major belts are currently held by boxing\u2019s two-time undisputed heavyweight champion, Oleksandr Usyk<\/a>,<\/p>\n

Former champion Parker, who has beaten Martin Bakole, Zhilei Zhang and Deontay Wilder<\/a> in his last three fights, is a WBO mandatory so stands as good a chance as anyone of getting a shot. Meanwhile, everyone else is manoeuvring for position in the hope that one day they get the call to fight for major honours.<\/p>\n

Next to rising stars like Moses Itauma<\/a> and former champions like Anthony Joshua<\/a>, Tyson Fury<\/a> and Daniel Dubois<\/a>, fan favourite Allen is one man in good form. He stopped Johnny Fisher last time out to reinvigorate his career, and has been told that if he wins his next fight, he could get a big step up and shot at someone like Parker<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Pro Boxing Fans<\/a>, Parker admitted that \u2018The White Rhino\u2019 will have his work cut out when he is back in action in October against Makhmudov<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s great to see Dave Allen sort of have this comeback, you know. Johnny Fisher twice, and now he\u2019s got this, another big fight with Makhmudov.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe way that he\u2019s been fighting, you just never know. When you look at the fight, Makhmudov is a favourite, but you just don\u2019t know. Dave Allen is full of surprises, and it\u2019s just nice to see him involved in bigger fights, and the comeback that he\u2019s had.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Russian boxer is 36 with 18 KO wins from 21 fights, including over Carlos Takam and Mariusz Wach, though he lost to Agti Kabayel in December 2023 and Guido Vianello nine months later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The heavyweight division is in flux right now, and Joseph Parker, Dave Allen and Arslanbek Makhmudov are three…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-98440","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98440","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=98440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}