Thompson TKO 2 Price = McCall TKO 2 Lewis

[The Hammer]

The biggest thing for me about last night is it showed the guys Wlad has defended against over the years are no mugs, despite what many fools on esb and here claim.

Very true.

[Bring It On]

I was quite surprised last night, I had heard about him being chinny as an amateur, but hadn't seen it myself so I didn't know how bad it was.

I think he'll come back, but he'll never be as successful as Lewis or Wladimir obviously. His chin definitely looks worse, and they were/are better fighters than Price will ever be.

But like I said, I think he will come back and be a contender when Wlad retires. He can be KO'd everytime he faces a live opponent though.

[NoLove]

But Price has always had a glass chin/ear/neck. Even in the amateurs he was getting dropped by off duty police men. This was always going to happen.

[Slick_Rick]

He will still become a World Champion when Wlad retires.

[Cuban Linx]

no....

McCall and Lewis were both 30 at the time.

Lewis was the WBC champ and had beaten way tougher opponents than McCall such as Razor Ruddock, Tony Tucker, Frank Bruno.

This loss was way worse for many reasons.

1.) Thompson is 41: Not that big of a deal, as there are fighters in their 40's who can compete but nonetheless he was old.

2.) Thompson was coming off a devastating knockout loss.

3.) Thompson came into the fight nearly 20 lbs overweight and looked terribly out of shape.

4.) He had one foot out the door, and was thinking about retiring if he lost the fight.

5.) This was Price's first real step up, which also makes the loss even more devastating, because it feeds into critics who think he has been protected.

6.) Of course Thompson was a massive 11-1 underdog.

It really doesn't get much worse than this, it was a horrible loss and I don't think he'll ever recover.

This is a lesson to all the HW's are ducking big competition. At least if Price lost to Fury or Klitschko it would not be as bad.

[yoz]

I say David Price can come back a better fighter as Lennox Lewis did.

What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger.

What do you think?

Lewis was a different beast entirely.

Price won't recover.

[Cuban Linx]

But Thompson is a normal healthy man, not a crazy crackhead like McCall.

Losing to a much smaller drug addict who has many defeats on his record like Oliver is worse than losing to a very good boxer like Tony Thompson who has only ever really lost to one fighter (an ATG).

Yes but he was 20 lbs over weight and looked in awful shape... Plus he was coming off a brutal knockout loss to Wladimir...

No matter how you look at it, it looks really bad on Price. Thompson was supposed to go there last 3 rounds, take a knee and collect a pay check. oops....

With Lewis there were no question marks as to whether he would recover or not cause he had already been the champion and faced tougher guys than McCall.

[bojangles1987]

I don't see how these two fights compare. They really don't.

[FrankieBruno]

price is audley mk11

[New England]

slight resemblance