Your Mayweather comparison made me watch some of that again. I just burst out laughing. What made me laugh was Andy Clarke saying "Darch has always had some ability." Well, that's an arbitrary compliment to pay him. I'd argue not very much ability. Allen looks so smug, and the Matchroom mugths then start singing "walking in an Allen wonderland". Allen is the absolute opposite of being too small to be a heavyweight. He's a natural heavyweight. He was relatively lean (for a heavyweight) for the Price bout and he was over 240lbs, that's 40lbs over the threshold and he was not muscle bound like an Adeleye. It's the guys who are pumped up to the max that are not natural heavyweights, not guys that appear smaller like Allen who weigh a lot. People get this the wrong way around a lot. How could Allen lose 40lbs if he already looks small at the weight?
I agree with that, Allen is huge. There’s not a chance he could get near CW from dropping weight; perhaps BW but who cares about that division... He’s genuinely a unit if you think about it, coupled with his durability in the ring. Even when he’s grossly overweight his engine during fights is still ok. Shame he doesn’t dedicate himself to getting into his best athletic shape and improving his boxing. Some of the moves he does in the ring is comical, the classic one where he drops his hands, chops his arm to his opponent’s body and pivots right into his opponent’s range with zero defence. In fact he doesn’t even pivot he just strolls across! That’s what led to that concussion against Usyk.