{"id":27113,"date":"2025-03-07T17:38:57","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T17:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/british-rivals-johnny-fisher-dave-allen-set-for-rematch-in-may\/"},"modified":"2025-03-07T17:38:59","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T17:38:59","slug":"british-rivals-johnny-fisher-dave-allen-set-for-rematch-in-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/british-rivals-johnny-fisher-dave-allen-set-for-rematch-in-may\/","title":{"rendered":"British rivals Johnny Fisher &#038; Dave Allen set for rematch in May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">British heavyweight rivals Johnny Fisher and Dave Allen will meet in a rematch in London on 17 May.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fisher and Allen first fought on the undercard of Oleksandr Usyk v Tyson Fury 2 in December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Essex&#8217;s Fisher, who is unbeaten in 13 fights, claimed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/c390741z4ngo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">controversial split-decision win<\/a>, despite being dropped for the first time in his professional career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Doncaster fighter Allen has won 23 of his 32 bouts, losing seven with two ending in draws.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Britons will headline at the Copperbox Arena.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m excited to be getting another great opportunity,&#8221; said Allen. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;To headline shows twice in London means a great deal to a kid from a small village in Doncaster. This time I will be bringing home the victory.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Undefeated light-welterweight Dalton Smith is also set to return to action against Mathieu Germain on 19 April in his hometown of Sheffield at the Canon Medical Arena.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Smith has won all 17 professional contests, picking up 13 victories inside the distance, and stopped Walid Ouizza in January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A win could see Smith become the number-one challenger to Alberto Puello&#8217;s WBC light-welterweight title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m not looking ahead, but there will be one name I&#8217;ll be calling out after dealing with Germain,&#8221; Smith said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Alberto Puello, where you at?&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/c75741gg56wo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British heavyweight rivals Johnny Fisher and Dave Allen will meet in a rematch in London on 17 May. Fisher and Allen first fought on the undercard of Oleksandr Usyk v Tyson Fury 2 in December. Essex&#8217;s Fisher, who is unbeaten in 13 fights, claimed a controversial split-decision win, despite being dropped for the first time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27113"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27115,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27113\/revisions\/27115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}