Dave Allen 'Fully Intends' To Fight On

[Ruthless-RKO]

Dave Allen 'fully intends' to fight again pending an 'overall, proper, thorough medical check'

"If I come back it must be in the right fights against the right opponents. You won't see me in with 6'9'' giants again!"

Dave Allen has given his strongest indication yet that he will continue boxing, despite hinting at retirement in the hours after last week’s loss to David Price.

Allen tweeted "now probably done" after being pulled out after 10 rounds, suffering damage to his eye socket and tongue in the process.


But he now "fully intends" to return to the ring pending the results of an "overall, proper, thorough medical check". Initial scans were all-clear, he confirmed, adding: "As they always have been".

Allen told Sky Sports: "I've been at a lower ebb than this - I've had worse defeats, and harder defeats. So I'll prove everyone wrong again.

"I'm back to where I was this time last year. I turned that around, and I will do it again."

Allen had caused worry but tweeting that "my health has been deteriorating" in the immediate aftermath to his defeat to Price.

He now says that, although he has "not felt the same" since last year's defeat to Tony Yoka, he was only referring to "wear and tear" and there is "no reason why I can't box".

The 27-year-old heavyweight from Doncaster has battled mental health issues in the past, and added: "Boxing keeps me on the straight and narrow. It keeps me out of trouble. Without boxing my health could be in a worse place."

Allen has now lost five fights - to Dillian Whyte, Luis Ortiz, Lenroy Thomas, Yoka and Price.

"If I come back it must be in the right fights against the right opponents," he said. "You won't see me in with 6'9'' giants again!

"I know what I am. I take one to give one. But against 6'9'' fighters I take 10 to give one.

"If I'm matched correctly I can be in exciting fights, and that is the plan, if I come back.

"I can make a dent at a certain level. I would love to win a British championship. At times I had ambitions of going further than that. But I have to lower those ambitions. I still want to be British champion and, if I come back, I will work towards a shot at that title."

Price, who has also lost five times, called his stoppage win against Allen "the best performance" of his 31-fight career.

Allen said about Price: "He was exceptional but I was made for him. It was proved that my style worked perfectly for him.

"He was well-conditioned - we had never seen him do 10 rounds at a decent pace. He used a jab for the first time in goodness knows how long.

"I expected a David Price who pawed with the left hand and got tired after three rounds. But I got a hard jab to the face and, after seven rounds, he got stronger.

"He can really punch. He is really powerful.

"Who knows where he can go? Maybe he will fulfil the potential that he had all those years ago. I really hope he kicks on and achieves just a little bit of his potential."

[emallini]

I won't be watching

[Boxerbeetle]

What about his AIDS?

[margaret thatcher]

Hell be like the other Dave, with ongoing redemption stories

[oogiebe]

I bought into Allen's resurrection and was wrong. He had nothing for Price. Maybe his best move is to retire.

[Steveh583]

Sad to hear this. They will feed him to Hughie after a few low key wins.

[MasterG]

I think he should fight Kamil Soko next to see if he has owt left

[Ruthless-RKO]

I think he should fight Kamil Soko next to see if he has owt left

Komo will be banging Allen’s head all night.

[margaret thatcher]

I think he should fight Kamil Soko next to see if he has owt left

Would love that

[coneye]

Think this really is a case where the promoters and boxing people just quietly say to each other , forget him he's a nice guy , just don;t give him a fight , and save him from himself , , he's at the level where he can't go up , staying where he is leads to harm , and the lower he drops the worse he gets , the more punishment he takes ,
Will it happen though , NOPE its boxing

[bripez]

Think this really is a case where the promoters and boxing people just quietly say to each other , forget him he's a nice guy , just don;t give him a fight , and save him from himself , , he's at the level where he can't go up , staying where he is leads to harm , and the lower he drops the worse he gets , the more punishment he takes ,
Will it happen though , NOPE its boxing

I agree with this, however like you I see a couple of low level wins, a load of twitter posts then another beating

[TopGun]

I worry for Allen's health in the future if he does carry on, he takes far too many shots. He must have done alright for himself financially given his talent, retire and find a new career, work for Kugan!

[cormack]

well he believes that he is " only 2 fights away from an AJ fight "

[chinarich]

Difficult to see where Allen can go from here, he can probably pick up an Area title but that’s probably about it. I’d prefer he didn’t fight again, he should take beating an absolutely shot sort of former world champion as his high watermark. He’s a genial and engaging chap with a decent social media following, I’m sure he can find media work of sorts...

[3132DW]

Difficult to see where Allen can go from here, he can probably pick up an Area title but that’s probably about it. I’d prefer he didn’t fight again, he should take beating an absolutely shot sort of former world champion as his high watermark. He’s a genial and engaging chap with a decent social media following, I’m sure he can find media work of sorts...

He’ll get couple of easy ones then try for British or Commonwealth type belt - he’s got nothing else other than fighting so unless he loses in the couple of easier fights he’ll keep going but as someone said you’d worry long term for him.

[margaret thatcher]

Is it true he collapsed after the Price fight? Because that's the type of thing if he gets seriously injured will look really bad that he was fighting again after

[Ruthless-RKO]

Difficult to see where Allen can go from here, he can probably pick up an Area title but that’s probably about it. I’d prefer he didn’t fight again, he should take beating an absolutely shot sort of former world champion as his high watermark. He’s a genial and engaging chap with a decent social media following, I’m sure he can find media work of sorts...

He’ll get couple of easy ones then try for British or Commonwealth type belt - he’s got nothing else other than fighting so unless he loses in the couple of easier fights he’ll keep going but as someone said you’d worry long term for him.

Should go for the English belt even.

[dookus]

Is it true he collapsed after the Price fight? Because that's the type of thing if he gets seriously injured will look really bad that he was fighting again after

That's what was reported.

The best evidence of anything is what comes shortly after the fact, not once he's had a chance to convince himself again that he's okay really.

So between his collapse post-fight and his tweets after the fight regarding deteriorating health, the Board really have to be bringing him in for a chat and review of his medical records.

[(craig)]

It'll be a cavalier promoter that promotes any more of his fights.

[Verdi]

Dave Allen Vs Shannon Briggs is about the only fight I can think of that would pay well and that he 'may' have a chance of winning. Briggs keeps banging on about making a comeback, though I doubt it'll ever happen.

[tony1234]

Hopefully someone will stop him for the sake of his own health

[rm1]

Allen can continue as long as he avoids killers like Yoka and Ortiz going forward. I would like to see a UK heavy tournament with the likes of Allen, Wardley, Gorman, Sokolowski, Little etc. There are so many decent heavies in the UK lets get them together in some good competitive fights and see who's the best.

[3132DW]

Nick Webb was on YouTube recently (before Allen fought Price) saying he wants to avenge the Allen and Soko defeats.

I think Webb vs Allen 2 is inevitable (loser to retire, winner to get beaten again when they step up)

Allen is in a fistic limbo, he's not good enough to be a contender and his 'style' is not conducive to being a journeyman.

British and Commenwealth when Dubois vacates might be his best target. No shame in not reaching top level - not everyone does but he needs to get out with everything still working and not end up the punchbag for contenders which I could see happening.

Fast forward 2-3 years after more fights - he’d likely take fights for £20k/£30k against young contenders just for the pay day and risk health long term as he’ll only look at the cash - needs good advice around him.

[stujones]

I hope he'll be okay..... lets be honest, his two biggest wins - he was losing before landing the fight changing blow.

[Ruthless-RKO]

I hope he'll be okay..... lets be honest, his two biggest wins - he was losing before landing the fight changing blow.

Browne?

What's his other biggest win? Webb?