Allen vs Makhmudov R3<\/p>\n
He lost the first two rounds, maybe three, but Allen is growing into this.<\/p>\n
The White Rhino is tucking up and trying to counter Makhmudov.<\/p>\n
Allen needs to be more assertive, though. The fight is currently in the rhythm that suits the Canadian-based Russian.<\/p>\n
There is clear tactic here from Allen. Survive the early onslaught and grind Makhmudov down.<\/p>\n
But he can he survive these constant huge right hands when they get through to the chin.<\/p>\n
Allen vs Makhmudov R2<\/p>\n
Clever from Makhmudov. The second that bell goes he comes forward with his huge right hand.<\/p>\n
This power is quite something and it has Allen on the defence from the first second.<\/p>\n
The Doncaster-born hero has got a good chin but Makhmudov is looking dangerous. The question is can he maintain it?<\/p>\n
Allen is trying to use his left hand to land some body shots… but oooh that is a low blow from him and he gets a telling off from the referee.<\/p>\n
Makhmudov again, massive punch to the head, one after the other.<\/p>\n
But Allen might just have an answer. He fires back with some body shots that do some damage. <\/p>\n
Allen vs Makhmudov R1<\/p>\n
Makhmudov comes out swinging and Allen is against the ropes in 15 seconds.<\/p>\n
But Allen lands a counter punch and it rocks the big Russian.<\/p>\n
Makhmudov gets his big right hand in action straight away. A good uppercut and these shots look heavy.<\/p>\n
Yet Allen is absorbing well and hits back with a decent body shot. <\/p>\n
Makhmudov has power but no footwork. But it is a good start from him as expected.<\/p>\n
Allen vs Makhmudov <\/p>\n
Dave Allen looks calm and composed. <\/p>\n
He lifts his arms to cheers from the crowd as his name is announced.<\/p>\n
Let’s go!<\/p>\n
Here comes Allen<\/p>\n
Goosebumps! Allen makes his way to the ring.<\/p>\n
Not a man in the arena not on his side tonight.<\/p>\n
“My Way” blares out through the speakers.<\/p>\n
There has been huge ups and huge downs in Allen’s career, which way will this one go tonight? <\/p>\n
Lion into the Lion’s den<\/p>\n
Here comes the colossal Arslanbek Makhmudov.<\/p>\n
Huge boos from the Sheffield crowd.<\/p>\n
He has rushed into the ring with the quickest walk-on I have seen for some time.<\/p>\n
Makhmudov is out to finish this in record quick time. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Allen vs Makhmudov R3 He lost the first two rounds, maybe three, but Allen is growing into this.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[12107,1921,8310,1922,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-492079","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-dave-allen","9":"tag-live-blogs","10":"tag-section-sportboxing","11":"tag-sport-live-blogs","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492079","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=492079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}