Price vs Chisora – The Perfect fight for both men?

By James Sexton - 02/09/2015 - Comments

The UK heavyweight scene has seen some major ups and downs in the last few years. We have seen Chisora and Haye both challenge Klitschkos and lose and we could see another challenge from a UK fighter at some point, as Tyson Fury is now a WBO mandatory. Some fighters along the lines of David Price, Dereck Chisora and Audley Harrison in particular have really fallen off the map as of late after some upsetting defeats. >

David Price received his second consecutive knockout loss in the rematch to Tony Thompson in 2013 and showed that maybe he did not have the skill set to compete at the highest level of the fight game.

Before the two fights with Thompson there certainly was a buzz about Price who had taken both the British and Commonwealth titles on route to amassing a perfect 15-0-0 13KO career. There was noise of an impeding showdown with fellow undefeated Brit Tyson Fury in what was becoming a highly anticipated showdown.

Many times in boxing fans complain that fighters are moved along to slowly and that the younger guys should be thrown into the deep end sooner but this was one case where a fighters career was rushed and they paid the price heavily with these early stoppage defeats. In the fifth round of the rematch Price really took a beating from Thompson in getting punched into the corner and then having Thompson unload on him until the referee was forced to give Price a standing count. Only five rounds in and Price was cut up and breathing far too heavily for a man still in the first half of a fight. We can only imagine what would have happened if Price had won the first encounter with Thompson and where his career would be at this point, but for now he is in the rebuilding stage and far from the point he was at before these losses.

Dereck Chisora is another fighter who is at a career low right now. In his rematch with Tyson Fury at the end of 2014 he suffered his fifth career defeat and this is the second time he has been stopped. Chisora really looked as though he had no idea what to do in this fight. He plodded after Fury taking constant shots to the head in a performance which looked identical to the Wilder vs Stiverne fight. Fury came away with the British, European and WBO international titles and Chisora was left a beaten man.

At this point in their careers neither Chisora or Price is a top 15 name with Chisora probably rated somewhere from 15-20 and Price likely outside of the top 30 heavyweights in the world. Both men would need something special to get them back into title contention at this point and seeing as they are both English born heavyweights why not make it a domestic showdown. This would be a good fight as the winner could make a case for themselves as a top 15 heavyweight again and the win would be one of the biggest of their careers, breathing life into a record which was certainly on the decline. The loser of this fight would likely become a forgotten man but for the winner it could spell a chance at redemption.