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Apparently had no amateur career of note, already drew with a 1-1-1 opponent, and scored his best pro win over shopworn Gavern in an awful fight.

Why does he get mentioned so regularly? Does he sell a lot of tickets? Related to someone important?

Gym rumors, mostly about him having granite chin. Also a fan character on Twitter. Essentially a boxings answer to Karl Pilkington.

Same thing happened with Larry Olubamiwo.

He was touted as a very good prospect at the time by many. Plenty were picking him to go far. "He's trained at the wildcard with Freddie!" etc.

crusader wrote:Apparently had no amateur career of note, already drew with a 1-1-1 opponent, and scored his best pro win over shopworn Gavern in an awful fight.

Why does he get mentioned so regularly?

Perhaps you could start a thread to see why people start threads on him.

Hes promoting himself and trying to get fights and earn a crust. What's the problem?

BigDoofus wrote:

crusader wrote:Apparently had no amateur career of note, already drew with a 1-1-1 opponent, and scored his best pro win over shopworn Gavern in an awful fight.

Why does he get mentioned so regularly?

Perhaps you could start a thread to see why people start threads on him.

I'm curious about why his name is even mentioned in the first place; I doubt that 'curiosity about why his name is mentioned is so much' is the answer I'm looking for.

samwbr wrote:Hes promoting himself and trying to get fights and earn a crust. What's the problem?

Is anyone suggesting that there's a problem with that?

Go to checkhook boxing there's a thread on there and he gets on there. He posts under white rhino. He seems to have a few issues comes across as a nice man though

I'll give that a look--thanks for info

You don't have to think someone is especially good to like them.

Allen is an articulate and appealing heavyweight and as such is a nice counter weight to the Whyte-Chisora modus vivendi. He is also actually a pretty good defensive fighter and seems very durable; lack of handspeed and reach seem to be his main offensive limitations.