Round-by-Round: Dave Allen vs. Filip Hrgovic - 16 May 2026

[THEBUTCH]

I can't imagine where he's (Gomez Jnr) inherited that behaviour from

[Fearful_Freddie]

Yes, bit of a mystery. Haven't heard about Gomez senior for a while but apparently wasn't in a good way.

[coneye]

What do you say about this fight and Dave Allen .well i think the first thing you have to say is it looked like a complete mismatch . Hrgovic judt simply too big and way to good .
Thats the easy part now regards Allen i suppose if your in the Daves a top fella , Daves a trier , Good on old dave he s a battler group then it was good on him.at least he tried and made a quid .

If your in the stuff It , we were ripped off . Sick of the humble man of the people act then Daves talked and conned his way into a good money fight .

Now myself personaly too be honest i,ve seen lots of Allen on u tube being interviewed , but i ve not actually seen him fight too much , has much has i knew of Dave the person i did,nt know much about Dave the boxer . So whats my take on it and him . Well after watchingbit in the firstvrnd i thought.... Whaaaat the fooook....i looked at him and in the next few rnds looked even closer . And i then very quickly came toobthe conclusion that Allen should make a video of how NOT TO DO IT . Trainers should show that to there novices on what happens when you throw the left and drop the right ,or throw the right and drop the left, along with hands too low . No head movement and numerous other things too do wrong . The guy obviously has a top shelf chin but his skills are novice . Personaly the onevthing i do think has already been made by anothrrnposter . He was set up Yep set up to make his opponent look good and become an opponent for Moses . Anyone who has watched Dave Allen in the past must know he was.nt going to stand a chance against ANY reasonable boxer that much bigger than him . Because i doubt he got that bad overnihht Dave Allen was totally outclassed its has simple has that and if he ever gets another cravk at a top 10 guy it will be a pisstake

[Controversial]

Yes, bit of a mystery. Haven't heard about Gomez senior for a while but apparently wasn't in a good way.

I remember seeing a video of him maybe 5+ years ago and he wasn’t sounding great back then

[Eolaithe]

Last night’s mismatch came down to poor matchmaking and a Dave Allen performance that lacked confidence and was well below par.

The ‘White Rhino’ isn’t classed amongst the top-12 British heavyweights, whereas Hrgović is comfortably a top-10 world-rated heavyweight.

The only reason why last nights’ one-sided fight was staged, was to raise Hrgović’s profile prior to the Croat’s fight in August against Moses Itauma.

[handsofstone]

In an ideal world Allen goes back to domestic level maybe pick up a British title then retire

[Old bones Ian]

What a shithouse Gomez is.

Did something happen pre fight or is he always a twat?

He's seriously unhinged.

He's firing off to people on Instagram who commented he shouldn't of done the headbutt , seems a bit hyper to say the least.

[Pukka Cheese]

In an ideal world Allen goes back to domestic level maybe pick up a British title then retire

Riakporhe would smash him imo and not convinced Dave would do anything against a TKV or Adeleye either.

[Kilburn]

Dave himself said he doesn’t fancy his chances v Riakporhe

[paultom]

What a shithouse Gomez is.

Did something happen pre fight or is he always a twat?

He's seriously unhinged.

He's firing off to people on Instagram who commented he shouldn't of done the headbutt , seems a bit hyper to say the least.

I missed the headbutt last night, he should have been thrown out before the fight started for that

[gilgamesh]

Just got to see the Allen/Hrgovic fight. Resembled George Foreman vs Chuvalo. 1 guy had a chin to take punches from a bigger and better fighter, and that's about it.

Was woefully outmatched otherwise, and had to be saved.

[gilgamesh]

In an ideal world Allen goes back to domestic level maybe pick up a British title then retire

I don't think there's a level where Allen is gonna pick up a title. Maybe an Area title, that's about it. He's unquestionably tough, but that's all he is. He's got absolutely no skill at all.

[golden_labrador]

Just got to see the Allen/Hrgovic fight. Resembled George Foreman vs Chuvalo. 1 guy had a chin to take punches from a bigger and better fighter, and that's about it.

Was woefully outmatched otherwise, and had to be saved.

I watched the highlights and it did remind me of the Homer Simpson boxing episode. Warren could have put Hrg up against a more suitable opponent I'm sure and still had the easy win to set up the Itauma fight, surely?

[johnmanchester]

I spam the forum?

What’s reading X and watching interviews got to do with anything though? I do that doo.

He's just being a twat because you hurt his feelings for clearly pointing out his suspicious agenda against Joshua. The forum would be struggling without your posts tbh

I think this is one of those let’s all get along moments. Ditto Spud and John, life is too short to be falling out on forums.

Unless it involves me of course in which case I’ll cry and send overly emotional posts.

We've not fallen out lol. We've just got different sides of one specific argument. Has no bearing on life in general, both of us got bigger issues to deal with. It's never turned personal, We've just been arguing the toss on one particular scenario

[handsofstone]

In an ideal world Allen goes back to domestic level maybe pick up a British title then retire

Riakporhe would smash him imo and not convinced Dave would do anything against a TKV or Adeleye either.

Aye but it's a bit safer than than the Hrgovic's and Makhmudov's of the world

[SeanBrennan]

He's just being a twat because you hurt his feelings for clearly pointing out his suspicious agenda against Joshua. The forum would be struggling without your posts tbh

I think this is one of those let’s all get along moments. Ditto Spud and John, life is too short to be falling out on forums.

Unless it involves me of course in which case I’ll cry and send overly emotional posts.

We've not fallen out lol. We've just got different sides of one specific argument. Has no bearing on life in general, both of us got bigger issues to deal with. It's never turned personal, We've just been arguing the toss on one particular scenario

I’m just kidding mate. Hope you are well.

[handsofstone]

In an ideal world Allen goes back to domestic level maybe pick up a British title then retire

I don't think there's a level where Allen is gonna pick up a title. Maybe an Area title, that's about it. He's unquestionably tough, but that's all he is. He's got absolutely no skill at all.

He's got Eddie and British title is non existent these days

[gilgamesh]

In an ideal world Allen goes back to domestic level maybe pick up a British title then retire

I don't think there's a level where Allen is gonna pick up a title. Maybe an Area title, that's about it. He's unquestionably tough, but that's all he is. He's got absolutely no skill at all.

He's got Eddie and British title is non existent these days

He can only be a punching bag so long though before he just can't win at any level anymore.

[SeanBrennan]

My thoughts

Pure grifter

Those who know know why he doesn’t train one of his female fighters who he now just manages.

Had a chance to fight full time as a pro and couldn’t be arsed to train and made zero effort to sell tickets. Lied about doing his runs. Gave Hobson the runaround

Ponced various women to pay his bills.

Got binned by Peter Fury for being workshy.

Meant to weigh 230, ate his weigh above 260.

Only time he’s been lighter is when he starved himself as he cannot be bothered to do the hard work.

Uses Joe Hayden to drive him around like a workman/fraggle in my community.

Stole a living being an Everyman. Bone idle.

He’s the opposite of what we should support.

The skeletons are going to come out of Dave’s closet including some of the people’s parents who he trained.

He’s not a good person. It’s a charade and a masquerading mask.

[veriton]

Feed him to Teremoana, he'll want to be quicker than Hergovic, Dave gets an international fight in Australia to tick another box and then he can retire because he just doesn't fit into the British scene in any way now.

[Boxerbeetle]

My thoughts

Pure grifter

Those who know know why he doesn’t train one of his female fighters who he now just manages.

Had a chance to fight full time as a pro and couldn’t be arsed to train and made zero effort to sell tickets. Lied about doing his runs. Gave Hobson the runaround

Ponced various women to pay his bills.

Got binned by Peter Fury for being workshy.

Meant to weigh 230, ate his weigh above 260.

Only time he’s been lighter is when he starved himself as he cannot be bothered to do the hard work.

Uses Joe Hayden to drive him around like a workman/fraggle in my community.

Stole a living being an Everyman. Bone idle.

He’s the opposite of what we should support.

The skeletons are going to come out of Dave’s closet including some of the people’s parents who he trained.

He’s not a good person. It’s a charade and a masquerading mask.

You used to be his biggest fan on here, from what I remember? I only started watching his YouTube after you were regularly posting the vids (and I still watch the channel now, although don’t enjoy it as much as I used to when he was mostly talking about his old fights / sparring seasons with the big boys). Sounds like something has made you have a major rethink?

[margaret thatcher]

In an ideal world Allen goes back to domestic level maybe pick up a British title then retire

I don't think there's a level where Allen is gonna pick up a title. Maybe an Area title, that's about it. He's unquestionably tough, but that's all he is. He's got absolutely no skill at all.

He's got Eddie and British title is non existent these days

riakporhe the current brit champ would beat him handily

the best chance he woulda had would been if he got a shot when jaime tsk had the belt

[MasterG]

In an ideal world Allen goes back to domestic level maybe pick up a British title then retire

Riakporhe would smash him imo and not convinced Dave would do anything against a TKV or Adeleye either.

Maybe pick up the commonwealth title against an inept African?

[Frostieballs]

My thoughts

Pure grifter

Those who know know why he doesn’t train one of his female fighters who he now just manages.

Had a chance to fight full time as a pro and couldn’t be arsed to train and made zero effort to sell tickets. Lied about doing his runs. Gave Hobson the runaround

Ponced various women to pay his bills.

Got binned by Peter Fury for being workshy.

Meant to weigh 230, ate his weigh above 260.

Only time he’s been lighter is when he starved himself as he cannot be bothered to do the hard work.

Uses Joe Hayden to drive him around like a workman/fraggle in my community.

Stole a living being an Everyman. Bone idle.

He’s the opposite of what we should support.

The skeletons are going to come out of Dave’s closet including some of the people’s parents who he trained.

He’s not a good person. It’s a charade and a masquerading mask.

Wow Sean. I view you as a considered bloke. You must know some stuff.

[margaret thatcher]

i was gonna say allen already won commonwealth, but no, he lost to lenroy thomas then no contest the 2nd fight

in fact dave not got a win in any title fight hes ever been in.

remember that any time you think of suggesting that he'd win this or that title if he fought for it. ive seen some people say that of him vs the current euro champ but that guy has actually gotten a couple decent wins lately and could pr ob beat dave too. some people just have an odd, unflappable delusion about how good he is. its strange. i remember going into the david price fight people literally saying that the fight should be called off for price's safety. lmao wtf

tbh though, i doubt dave really cares about belts at this stage. if he wanted to stack his trophy case he coulda stayed amateur. money is what its about , cant blame him