It may be fairly odd how the game of boxing works at instances. Rewind a 12 months or so, and completely no person would have dreamed of suggesting Deontay Wilder and Dave Allen might struggle one another. However now, with Wilder set to return to motion following a nasty run that noticed him lose to Joseph Parker and Zhilei Zhang, and with Allen on an actual run of kind with him having misplaced a controversial resolution in opposition to Johnny Fisher after which flattening him within the rematch, we actually might see Wilder and Allen get it on.
Talking once more with IFL TV, Eddie Hearn stated that Allen known as him up not too lengthy after his spectacular KO win over Fisher, asking for the Wilder struggle. And so far as Hearn is worried, it’s a case of “why not?”
Allen needs Wilder, and Hearn’s not laughing
Wilder has to win his June comeback struggle in opposition to Tyrrel Herndon, however after that, assuming the previous WBC heavyweight champ will get the win and appears good and feels good in doing so, who is aware of? Hearn would possibly be capable to entice Wilder to the UK with a giant payday, and possibly Wilder might struggle Allen this 12 months.
“He phoned me up and he stated, ‘I need the Deontay Wilder struggle.’ Yeah, why not?” Hearn stated. “Look, Deontay’s bought this struggle [with Herndon] developing, which must be a formality, after which…….you recognize that Dave Allen in opposition to Deontay Wilder would do improbable enterprise within the UK. Whenever you undergo the highest 10 names in British boxing proper now; I’m speaking about curiosity, viewership – throughout the board. You’ve bought like, AJ, Fury, Dubois, Eubank, Conor [Benn], after which Dillian Whyte, Callum Smith, Josh Taylor, Jack Catterall, Leigh Wooden, and also you’d put Dave Allen proper on the high of that group, wouldn’t you. We noticed the numbers from the [Fisher] struggle. Individuals just like the story.”
Will Wilder come to the UK and smash the feel-good storyline?
Agreed, Dave Allen is a present British fighter the followers each like and are excited by. However will Wilder need a piece of this explicit motion? Possibly so, and naturally Wilder would really feel he has the beating of Allen. Wilder has boxed within the UK as soon as earlier than, this in opposition to Audley Harrison again in 2013. Possibly “The Bronze Bomber” will make a return journey this 12 months?
