David Allen: Johnny Fisher is nervous about fighting me – and I’m afraid of getting knocked out

David Allen refuses to consider himself the underdog against Johnny Fisher.

The two heavyweights face off on Saturday in Riyadh Season, headlined by Oleksandr Usyk vs. Tyson Fury, live Sky Sports Ticket Office.

Fisher, the ‘Romford Bull’, is a popular emerging heavyweight and the undefeated favorite for this fight.

Allen from Doncaster is a veteran of punishment fighting. However he said Aerial sports: “I think experience is a factor. But I’m better than him. Really. To a lot of people it seems absurd because they’ve seen me out of shape.

“Johnny Fisher is very self-aware and very intelligent. People around him say he’s better than him. He’s good but he’s not great.”

Allen has had a sparring session with Fisher and believes it will attack his opponent’s mind.

“I think he’ll be nervous because we fought and I got the better of him. He saw me for years on TV, he kind of looked up to me. I’ve been in this position,” Allen said. “There’s a lot of me versus David Price in this fight.

“When I boxed Price, I’m a David Price fan and I’m boxing David Price, it kind of hit me.”

But Allen also revealed he would be “terrified” himself.

“I’ve boxed some very good fighters, but not once did I think, ‘He’s going to knock me down or take me out.’ It never crossed my mind, this one, it’s an idea: If he hits me, I’m going to go,” Allen said.

“So that really excited me. The idea of being on a blockbuster film is terrifying. I trained really hard. Mainly for that reason.”

Allen said: “I’m not a liar. It’s not mind games. I’ll come and try him, he’ll come and try me. That’s good. I’m faster, I was a very good amateur.

“I’m going to treat this like a three-minute, three-round boxing contest. I’m going to win all three rounds and there’s every chance I’m going to drive him into something and knock him out. That’s how I deal with this fight.

“I’m just going to send him out for three rounds and if I send him out, I’ll turn him into something…And if it goes over three rounds, we’ll make it an old-fashioned four-round amateur fight.”

Fisher, however, hit back saying Aerial sports: “If I’m not nervous, there’s something wrong.”

But he added: “I’m not nervous about the spar. I was 19 when it happened and it was just a spar. Nothing untoward happened in that spar. I don’t I didn’t fall, I didn’t get dropped and I proved to myself, that day, I could become a professional boxer because I can take the punishment and keep moving forward.

“I’m ready for any eventuality. I can box and I can also punch. So if he wants to throw the kitchen sink at him in the first round, that might be his only option, we’ll see.

“He can make it a three-round fight. It’ll be amazing because then it’s a heartbreak from the start. And I love a heartbreak.”

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