David Allen Confirmed For David Haye vs. Tony Bellew Card

By Elliot Foster

David Allen has had his next fight confirmed.

The Conisbrough heavyweight returned to winning ways last Saturday on the back of two defeats at the hands of Dillian Whyte and Luis Ortiz.

Allen (now 10-2-1, 7 KOs) took just 31 seconds to get rid of Hungary’s Lukasz Rusiewicz at Hull’s Ice Arena, as part of the undercard to Gavin McDonnell’s brave but ultimately losing effort at the hands of Rey Vargas for the vacant WBC world super-bantamweight title.

And the 24-year-old, who was originally scheduled to fight again on the undercard of Kell Brook’s IBF welterweight world title defence against Errol Spence Jr. in May, was told in the aftermath that he could box on either March 4 in London or in Germany on March 11.

But it was confirmed by show promoter Eddie Hearn on Monday afternoon that ‘The White Rhino’ would box again later this week, at the O2 Arena in the capital, as part of the undercard to David Haye’s heavyweight grudge match against Tony Bellew.

“[I’m] delighted to confirm that heavyweight David Allen has been added to the [David Haye vs. Tony Bellew] card on Saturday,” Hearn tweeted, to which Allen replied: “[I’d] best get my body warmer and shorts packed.

“I’m off to London. O2, here I come.”