David Price Disappointed With Machiman's Performance

Feb 7, 2011 • 12:43 PM ET

By Terence Dooley

Liverpool's David Price moved to (9-0, 7KO) on Saturday night with a third-round blow-out of South Africa's Osborne Machiman. Osborne had grabbed a national title in his previous fight, a TKO over Bully Muravha. Machiman, however, did not get a chance to put up much of a fight against Price. David is flying out to spar with Odlanier Solis ahead of the Cuban's WBC title fight with Vitali klitschko in a move that will allow the 27-year-old, 6' 8'' prospect to get some top-level sparring under his belt.

Price was bemused by Osborne's machismo-free performance, the Olympic bronze medallist told The Daily Echo that he was surprised by his opponent's capitulation. "I was happy with my performance. But I expected more of my opponent to be honest. When I was offered the fight we sat down and talked about it but said we’d take it even though it was a risk so to speak because he was going to be the most experienced fighter I’d faced and it was potentially over 10 rounds. But we wanted to go for it. However he turned up a bit out of shape but I didn’t let him in the fight at all. I put it on him and felt good on Saturday night. I’m improving with every performance and things we’re working on in the gym are starting to come off in the ring."