David Price is Set For a Busy Week of Action
By Terence Dooley
Liverpool’s David Price signed with Hayemaker Promotions after coming home from the Olympics last year. He finally made his pro debut in March of this year, overwhelming David Ingleby in three rounds, only to then spend seven-months sitting on the sidelines - a victim of Setanta closing its doors here in the UK.
Price is now with Frank Maloney, who has given the big heavyweight a great boost. David fights in Sunderland on the 16th of October before appearing on Jamie Moore’s Bolton Arena undercard the following week.
Maloney wants to keep Price busy for the rest of the season; the promoter believes that David can be the goliath of the heavyweight division in coming years.
“David is still a baby and it could be four years before we see the best of him at world level,” said Maloney when talking with Sky Sports.
“Over the next 12 months he will learn his trade in a series of learning fights around Britain and at his gym in Liverpool where there is an impressive set up. In about a year when he has had ten or so fights we will sit down and start making real ambitious plans to get him some work in America to get his name known even more.”
Price won bronze at the 2008 Games. At 6’ 8’’and with a serious dig on him the 26-year-old could be one to watch in the British heavyweight division; indeed, Price has history with Tyson Fury, who he defeated as an amateur. The two men have traded verbal jabs in recent months; a professional encounter could be on the cards down the line.
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