Arnold Allen is a man of few words, but if there is a cliche about fighters doing their talking in the ring, the Briton might just have screamed his way to victory last time out.
It was in a sold-out O2 Arena in London that the Ipswich featherweight last competed, recording the biggest win of his career by securing a first-round TKO of Dan Hooker in March. It took Allen a moment to find the right words, so to speak, but once he had done so, he drowned out Hooker with a ferocious flurry of punches. Although the New Zealander dropped Allen to a knee somewhere amid the onslaught, the Briton’s relentless pursuit of a finish paid off inside two-and-a-half minutes, as he stopped Hooker against the fence.
