David Price (boxer)

For other people of the same name, see David Price (disambiguation).

Medal record
David Price
Men's Boxing
Competitor for Great Britain
Olympic Games
Bronze	2008 Beijing	Super Heavyweight
Competitor for England
Commonwealth Games
Gold	2006 Melbourne	Super Heavyweight

David Price
Statistics
Real name	David Price
Nickname(s)	Pricey
Rated at	Heavyweight
Nationality	English
Born	6 July 1983 (1983-07-06) Liverpool, England
Stance	orthodox
Boxing record
Total fights	12
Wins	12
Wins by KO	10
Losses	0
Draws	0
No contests	0

David Price (born July 6, 1983) is a professional British heavyweight boxer from Liverpool.

Amateur career

The 6 ' 8 Price boxed out of Salisbury ABC and in 2003 became the youngest ever A.B.A champion in the Super-Heavyweight division, he was 19 years and 272 days old. He competed for England at a number of international tournaments, he beat Travis Kauffman twice at the 2003 USA vs. England Tournament. In August 2003 he won the Commonwealth Confederations tournament in Kuala Lumpur, defeating Muzzafar Iqbal of Pakistan 21:9, and Justin Whitehead of Australia 22:6. At the Finnish Tammer Tournament in 2004 he was dominated and KO'd by Canadian puncher Bermane Stiverne. He then defeated Gregory Corbin on points in the England-U.S.A dual in Liverpool. Price lost to Roberto Cammarelle in the quarter-finals of the European Amateur Boxing Championships in Bulgaria in 2004, a defeat that prevented him from going to the Athens Olympics that year. He won his second A.B.A Title in March 2005, defeating Damien Campbell of Repton ABC in the final. He went on to win the 4 Nations Championships and two weeks later, a win which enabled him to compete in the inaugural 4 Nations vs Cuba match, in which he was his side's sole victor, defeating Lisovan Hernandez. He participated at the 2005 World Amateur Boxing Championships‎ but lost on points to Robert Helenius 25-22. At the Strandya Cup in Bulgaria, he was outgunned by Ukrainian Vyacheslav Glazkov, though he ended the year on a high note defeating highly touted teenage compatriot Tyson Fury 22:8. Then going on to win his 3rd A.B.A title, defeating Tom Dallas 27:4. At the 2007 Commonwealth Championships he stopped Australian Daniel Beahan in the final.

2006 Commonwealth Games

Price captained the 2006 Commonwealth Games boxing team in Melbourne and achieved a gold medal there, beating Indian Varghese Johnson in the process.

2007 World Amateur Boxing Championships

At the 2007 World Amateur Boxing Championships‎ in Chicago he defeated three opponents including Marko Tomasović of Croatia 23:11, Frenchman Mohamed Samoudi whom he stopped, Primislav Dimovski (Skopje) 20:4 but a hand injury kept him from showing for his fight against Roberto Cammarelle. GB head coach Terry Edwards said: "David has boxed particularly well in these World Championships and it is therefore a big disappointment that he was unable to box for automatic Olympic qualification here in Chicago, a right he had fought for."

2008 Olympic Games

Two years after his Commonwealth Games success, Price captained the GB team who went to Beijing for the 2008 Olympic Games, beating Romanian World Junior Champion Cristian Ciocanu to qualify. Price met European Champion Islam Timurziev in the first round of the Olympics, and stopped the Russian in the second round after dropping him to the canvas on two occasions in the round, the scores were level at 2:2 at the time. The next round saw Price matched against Lithuanian Jaroslavas Jakšto but Price progressed into the next round after Jakšto retired with an injury at the end of the first round when the scorecards favored Price, 3:1. Guaranteed at least a bronze medal, David Price was to meet Italian world champion Roberto Cammarelle, a bout in which the referee stopped in the second round when the scores favored the eventual Olympic gold medalist, Cammarelle, 10:1. The Englishman ended an impressive run at the Olympics with a bronze medal in the 91+kg Super-Heavyweight division.

Professional career

'Pricey' is currently unbeaten as a professional since turning pro in January 2009. David is promoted by Frank Maloney, he boasts a record of 12(10)-0-0 and most recently stopped fellow British fighter Tom Dallas at the Liverpool Olympia, inflicting a second round TKO propelling Price closer to a British Title shot. He recently scheduled a bout with John McDermott, due to take place on 5 November 2011, but Price was forced to pull out of the British and Commonwealth title eliminator with a rib injury which he suffered in sparring with former England team-mate Danny Price. Price also sparred with fellow heavyweight David Haye before Haye's world title fight with Ukrainian Wladimir Klitschko in July 2011.

On the 21st January 2012 David Price was fighting for the English Heavyweight title against an experienced fighter in John McDermott. The winner of the bout would be the mandatory challenger against the British and Commonwealth Heavyweight champion, Tyson Fury; who many fans and pundits felt that McDermott won against in the first bout between the pair. It only took 73 seconds of the first round for Price to win against McDermott. Price knocked down McDermott 3 times before the referee, Howard John Foster, decided to end the bout; inflicting McDermott with a Technical Knock-out defeat.

Professional boxing record

12 Wins (10 Knockouts), 0 Defeat, 0 Draws
Res.	Record	Opponent	Type	Rd., Time	Date	Location	Notes
Win	12-0	John McDermott	KO	1 (10)	2012-01-21	Liverpool Olympia, Merseyside United Kingdom	British and Commonwealth Heavyweight final title eliminator.
Win	11-0	Tom Dallas	TKO	2 (10), 2:45	2011-06-11	Liverpool Olympia, Merseyside United Kingdom	British and Commonwealth Heavyweight title eliminator.
Win	10-0	Raphael Butler	TKO	1 (8), 1:47	2011-04-27	Liverpool Olympia, Merseyside United Kingdom
Win	9-0	Osborne Machimana	TKO	3 (10), 2:53	2011-02-05	Leisure Centre, Brentwood
Win	8-0	Raman Sukhaterin	TKO	7 (8), 2:44	2010-10-16	The Troxy, Limehouse, London
Win	7-0	Pavol Polakovic	TKO	1 (6), 1:42	2010-06-25	Brentwood Centre, Brentwood
Win	6-0	Daniil Peretyatko	PTS	6 (6), 3:00	2010-05-14	Goresbrook Leisure Centre, Dagenham	60-54
Win	5-0	Martyn Grainger	TKO	1 (6), 1:05	2010-03-19	Indoor Sports Centre, Leigh
Win	4-0	Dmitrijs Basovs	KO	1 (6), 0:33	2009-12-11	Newport Leisure Centre, Newport
Win	3-0	Yavor Marinchev	PTS	4 (4), 3:00	2009-10-23	Bolton Arena, Bolton	40-36
Win	2-0	Liridon Memishi	RTD	2 (6), 3:00	2009-10-16	Seaburn Centre, Sunderland
Win	1-0	David Ingleby	TKO	3 (6), 2:30	2009-03-28	Echo Arena, Liverpool	Price's professional debut.

References

david price vs tom dallas

External links

• Frank Maloney Promotions
• Official page David Price
• CommUonwealth Games 2006 results
• Commonwealth Championships (not C.Games!) Results 2007
• Foto
• Bio
• 2nd qualifier
• Amateur record (incomplete)
• Professional boxing record for David Price (boxer) from BoxRec