You’ve got to hand it to David Price. The former Olympian, former British champion and one-time “sure thing” for world honours at pro level has consistently taken each and any big fight offered to him.
David Price of Liverpool, UK: a gutsy puncher with a suspect chin. Eric Molina of Texas, USA: a hard-hitter, also possessing heart and courage but also a resume that tells you he too has lost his biggest fights.
British heavyweight David Price will, it seems, have to find another opponent for his latest ring return. Price, last seen giving it a real go before ultimately being brutally knocked out by Russia’s Alexander Povetkin in March of this year, was to have returned to action against Ireland’s Sean Turner, the fight to top a bill at The Titanic Exhibition Centre in Belfast, Northern Ireland on October 5th.
Former British and Commonwealth heavyweight ruler David Price refuses to call it quits. The one-time sure thing who has suffered a number of nasty KO defeats and was last seen giving it a real go (scoring a knockdown of his own) before being flattened by Alexander Povetkin has his next fight set.
British heavyweight contender David Price is the last man to have shared a ring with Russia’s Alexander Povetkin, the next man to challenge WBA/IBF/WBO heavyweight ruler Anthony Joshua, and Price, who put on a decent display before being iced by the former WBA champ, spoke to Sky Sports about the upcoming September 22 fight at Wembley.
It seems that for as long as David Price is an active fighter, and until Tyson Fury can again reach the very top and then engage in the big, big fights (if he can actually do it, that is) – there will be talk of a Fury-Price collision.
Former British and Commonwealth heavyweight king David Price will return to action at Bolton’s Macron Stadium on July 27.
Price (22-5-KO18) was stopped in a thrilling fight against former world champion Alexander Povetkin (34-1-KO24) last time out but despite defeat, the Liverpudlian is more determined than ever to reward his growing fanbase with a major title.
As fans may have read by now, British heavyweight David Price has announced how he will not retire, that he will continue, now looking to challenge for the European heavyweight title.
British heavyweight David Price knew he was expected to lose on Saturday night when he climbed into the ring with former WBA champ Alexander Povetkin; the former Olympian and one-time red-hot prospect knew he was one massive underdog who was quite literally fighting for his very career.
Tonight in Cardiff on the big Joshua-Parker card, Alexander Povetkin scored the expected KO win over David Price. The end came, in chilling fashion, in the fifth, as a huge Povetkin right hand had Price out on his feet, before a crushing left hook that landed flush on an unprotected target sent Price down and out.