Olympic bronze medal winner David Price is looking forward to a big year.

The 35-year-old heavyweight will return in a home city fight on March 30. It was be his first fight in Liverpool in more than three years.

The contest will be part of the undercard to the junior middleweight fight between Liam Smith and Sam Eggington at the newly-named M&S Bank Arena.

While some have called on Price to walk away from the sport after a crushing knockout loss to Alexander Povtekin in 2018, he plans to keep pushing forward until he reached his goal of a world title fight.

He fought at the O2 Arena back in December, when he stopped Tom Little on the undercard to the Dillian Whyte-Dereck Chisora rematch.

“The fight will come 10 years to the weekend since I turned pro and I haven’t even had 30 fights yet,” said Price to The Liverpool Echo.

“The hardest thing about this card will be that we stop saying ‘It’s in the ECHO [Arena],’ but I still call Snickers a Marathon, so I’m going to struggle. As much as I get people telling me it’s time to pack in, I’ve not really got much mileage on the clock, that’s the truth. I’ve had six knockout defeats and two of them have been genuine. The other four, I’ve kind of beat myself in those fights.

“The older I’m getting, I’m getting more wise and mature and I honestly still believe my best years are yet to come. Yes, I haven’t got many years left, but I’m looking after myself, I’m living the life and with maturity, this could be where I perform to my best. I was fast-tracked early on in my career because I had a good amateur pedigree and then I just hit a wall. In losing, you can pick up massive experience and I’ve lost six times, so if I’m not experienced from losing, I never will be. The experience comes from being defeated, being at your lowest, and knowing how to deal with it.”