IT took Dave Allen just 20 seconds of their initial encounter to decide that Jonny Fisher was \u2018not very good\u2019.<\/p>\n
The British heavyweights met at the Kingdom Arena in Riyadh back on December 21 with Fisher winning via a razor sharp split decision after 10 rounds.<\/p>\n
However it was a result which split opinion with many believing that underdog Allen, who dropped Fisher in the fifth and controlled large portions of the fight, had done enough to win.<\/p>\n
But 26-year-old Fisher, who moved to 13-0 (11) as a result of the win, responded to the criticism of the decision by agreeing to an immediate rematch. They will now meet again in the main event of a DAZN show at the Copper Box Arena, London on May 17.<\/p>\n
Allen has established himself as a cult figure in British heavyweight boxing over the course of his 23-7-2 (18) career to date, which has included fights against Dillian Whyte, Luis Ortiz and Tony Yoka. But where does he rank the Romford Bull among his opponents to date?<\/p>\n
\u201cTo be honest with you,\u201d he says. \u201cWithin 20 seconds of the fight I thought \u2018you\u2019re not very good\u2019 and for that first fight I was only half fit.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was as fat as butter when I started camp and I\u2019d not had a real fight for years. But when that fight started, 20 seconds in, I realised that everything had landed. I thought \u2018this is going alright’.<\/p>\n
\u201cBefore the fight I thought he\u2019s going to be big and strong and come out fast and he\u2019s going to hit like f**k. I thought he\u2019d be ragging me all over and it\u2019s going to be the hardest round of my life.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut then I just thought, here, have that feint. He was buying everything. He was not very good.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought I won the fight but I left it too close. Really I wasn\u2019t fit enough but I will be for this.\u201d<\/p>\n
Allen\u2019s trainer Jamie Moore has insisted that his fighter will be even better at the Copper Box after a long and purposeful training camp.<\/p>\n
Allen said: \u201cIt was a decent camp for the first fight and I trained hard but I was 21 stone when I started it. So really the first four or five weeks was just fat camp. I was just walking, going to the gym, tapping the bag, I was f***ed.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo now I\u2019m in a good position. I haven\u2019t got to do that fat camp at the start and can just concentrate on boxing. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s going to do have to do something out of the ordinary to beat me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IT took Dave Allen just 20 seconds of their initial encounter to decide that Jonny Fisher was \u2018not…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,12107,12108,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-18147","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-dave-allen","10":"tag-johnny-fisher","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114334063834176149","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}