Comments Thread For: Maloney: Price Can Outdo Lewis, Make Over $100 Million

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Promoter Frank Maloney has very high hopes for British heavyweight contender David Price (12-0, 10KOs). Maloney, who led heavyweight great Lennox Lewis on a hall-of-fame journey, believes Price can achieve even more. Maloney is speaking with two different promoter in America, trying to get his boxing on a show to make his American debut in the month of March. One possibly option if the Sergio Martinez-Matthew Macklin card at New York's Madison Square Garden. Price's recent destructions in the ring have even caught the attention of WBC President Jose Sulaiman.


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[Drunk Punch]

Lewis is/was the last great HW champion but it wasn't until late on in his career people started giving him his due credit. All this talk from Maloney is not helping his fighter, who is still at domestic level and there is an even more important question... Lennox earned that kind of money because there were still massive HW fights to be made, whereas now the field is sparse. There are the Klitschkos but they are notorious for shortchanging opponents, so who else is there to fight and how can he possible amass £100M even if he is as good as Lennox?

[Uncle Rodge]

Lewis is/was the last great HW champion but it wasn't until late on in his career people started giving him his due credit. All this talk from Maloney is not helping his fighter, who is still at domestic level and there is an even more important question... Lennox earned that kind of money because there were still massive HW fights to be made, whereas now the field is sparse. There are the Klitschkos but they are notorious for shortchanging opponents, so who else is there to fight and how can he possible amass £100M even if he is as good as Lennox?

When questioned about this in a few years, Maloney will claim he was referring to 100 Million "magic beans" which invested correctly, will amass a fortune similar to Lewis's.

He's even a joke on his own planet.

[Drunk Punch]

ah... magic beans is another matter.

[Alonzo Harris]

Lmao no chance, there's no big names in the division anymore.

of course Price could win the Euromillions....

[taansend]

Lewis is/was the last great HW champion but it wasn't until late on in his career people started giving him his due credit.

I'm a big Lewis fan & was at his first & last bout. At lot of the respect came to Lewis after the 'draw' with Evander. before that fight he'd pitty-pattied his way through a dull defence against Mavrovic.
But Maloney is way off unless one or two superstars suddenly appear a la Tyson. There's just not as much money today as there was during the Tyson/Holyfield era. The fact that the Klitschkos can't fight each other has taken some of the luster off - and before I get called all manner of silly names - this is not a slight against them. Just a fact, having two dominant heavyweight champions is a million times below having one.
But back to the point, Price is a decent prospect but if he achieves 1/10th of what Lewis did I will be stunned (& chuffed for him too).

[tripper]

Im sure he can, as the last person to stop John MCDoughnut in seventy seconds was matt skelton, so it just shows you the potential...