DAVE ALLEN scored a knockout of the year contender to brutally finish his Johnny Fisher rivalry.
The 33-year-old Doncaster man was on the against the Romford ticket seller, 26, in December in Saudi Arabia.
But he snatched his career out of the hands of the judges at Stratford’s Copper Box by smashing Fisher in the fifth round with a brilliant left hook, leaving the brave history graduate needing oxygen.
Allen barely threw a single punch in the first three rounds of the original Christmas cracker.
But he flew out the traps slinging big right hands from the first bell.
Fisher wisely chose to box, rather than brawl, but his defence showed signs of vulnerability from the off.
Fisher was warned over a nasty elbow he tried to throw in the second but his one-two swiftly after was much more impressive and legal, as was a whipped uppercut.
Allen – at a massive 19st – was hurt to the body by an uppercut in the third but he cracked back with hooks.
Fisher was then warned over a low blow and late punch, after being told to break and he ate a hefty right hand in the fourth.
Allen looped in a peach of a right in the last minute of the fifth and battered the Essex man until he folded to the floor.
Fisher climbed to his unsteady feet and was about to be saved by the bell before Allen smashed him again.
Fisher then face planted and trainer Mark Tibbs towel flew in.
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