{"id":23121,"date":"2020-03-26T07:02:10","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T07:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/?p=23121"},"modified":"2020-03-26T07:02:10","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T07:02:10","slug":"dave-allen-signs-with-mtk-global","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/?p=23121","title":{"rendered":"Dave Allen signs with MTK Global"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><small>Photo by Richard Heathcote\/Getty Images<\/small><\/p>\n<p>Allen is coming off a stoppage win in February. <\/p>\n<p>Following his knockout win over Dorian Darch last month, British heavyweight Dave Allen (18-5-2, 15 KO) has now inked a management deal with MTK Global. Speaking on the signing, Allen says he&rsquo;s heard nothing but good things about the outfit and decided to bring in some help to move his professional career going forward.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I have friends signed with MTK Global and I&rsquo;ve heard nothing but great things about how professional they are,&rdquo; he said. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;For the last few years, I&rsquo;ve been doing everything myself and I thought it was time to bring in professional help. I just want to be in the biggest fights possible. I could argue my career has been perfect so far minus the money and titles so for the next few years it&rsquo;s about setting myself up for life financially and hopefully picking up a belt or two.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>MTK vice president Jamie Conlan called the Allen signing a big deal deal for the company as they look forward to working with one of the higher profile heavyweights on the British scene. <\/p>\n<p>Allen, 28, has obviously had an up-and-down career thus far, losing his last notable fight by getting stopped by David Price last Summer. But with a bounce-back win under his belt, Allen is hoping to get in line for some big outings going forward. <\/p>\n<p><ins class=\"adbladeads\" data-cid=\"25014-4024605408\" data-host=\"web.adblade.com\" data-tag-type=\"4\" style=\"display:none\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script async src=\"http:\/\/web.adblade.com\/js\/ads\/async\/show.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Richard Heathcote\/Getty Images Allen is coming off a stoppage win in February. Following his knockout win over Dorian Darch last month, British heavyweight Dave Allen (18-5-2, 15 KO) has now inked a management deal with MTK Global. Speaking on the signing, Allen says he&rsquo;s heard nothing but good things about the outfit and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23122,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23121"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}