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Boxing Life Stories

#11 Dave Allen

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2018

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

Heavyweight Dave Allen has built a substantial and unexpected fanbase in his pro career. The colourful Doncaster man has boxed on big shows and fought big names but has also become widely known for his battles with metal health and gambling. Honest as ever, he takes Tris Dixon through his life story

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I said you're only bottle shot, I said you've done nothing.

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Then I got to DM to it, I want to kill you or something.

0:06.8

I thought, fuck take.

0:10.4

That was him saying to me, thank you for boxing white and Ortiz for fuck all.

0:14.0

Thank you. I want to give you this Commonwealth out on that and you can go and make some money and

0:17.7

you've always become one champion and I blew it.

0:19.7

The worst tweet is one so I'll give you I'll give you five to one on

0:24.4

Dave Allen kills himself for he's 35.

0:26.4

Yeah I try to hang on myself in the flat in Leeds my girlfriend at the time found me.

0:34.0

You know I was a bit of a farmer

0:39.0

and it was a push myself in the face.

0:44.0

It was right Alaska.

0:47.0

It was June 2015 and it was Roy Alaska.

0:50.0

And what's everything? Hello and this week I'm joined by Heavyweight Dave Allen. Before we get Dave, I'd like to thank those of you who've tuned into the BT Sport No Filter

1:16.8

programs featuring Dante Wilder and Tyson Fury over the last two weeks.

1:21.8

Those box in life Story Type pieces have been

1:23.8

absolutely brilliant and I'm grateful to be T-Sport for asking me to do them. Now to Dave

1:28.8

Allen, the Doncaster man has achieved impressive levels of fame, but is a self-confessed underachiever.

1:35.8

He has fought on big bills and has become a tongue-in-cheek go-to pay-per-view fighter, but is actually

1:40.9

more ambitious than he's given credit for. Here in heartfelt color

1:45.4

he talks about his battles inside and outside the ring with Dylan White, with

1:49.9

gambling, with Louis Ortiz and with depression and much more. I caught up with Dave

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