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David Price is like a cross between Audley Harrison and Enzo Maccarinelli. His latest trainer, Dave Caldwell, hasn't done anything to address the stamina issues and it's apparent now he's also mentally weak. It's the mental weakness which has likely written him off. He needs to go 10 or 12 rounds against a few opponents who are durable but have no chance of actually winning. You can't throw him into fights were he's going to have to work every round for a full 12 when he has stamina issues.Comment
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I don't think David Price should retire. But he has one last chance of getting it right, but he needs to start from scratch with a new trainer and conditioner. He needs to face reality and be honest with himself, listen to the advice of people like Lennox Lewis and Duke McKenzie. If he could hang around for another 4-5 years, win the Lonsdale belt outright and possibly have a run as the European champion. That would have been a decent career.Comment
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... not sure what fight you folks were watching, lol
David Price fought, for the most part, a really good fight for the first five rounds (where he was clearly winning, imo), came out a little ahead of himself and got caught with a telling shot in the 6th, and simply didn't have the stamina/energy to give himself a chance to recover after that point.
Not sure how much time he has left, but Price is just fine; keep on listening to Caldwell (who had the perfect instructions for the proper tactics for Price, though Price's brief lapse on minding his defenses as he gauged what Hammer had left was his undoing), and continue to work on the conditioning (the move to around 270lbs seems to have alleviated most of the concerns about punch resistance, but he's got to develop a deeper gas tank than the hard 6 rounds and fade situation that he's currently facing).Comment
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styles make fights
The gas tank is now in serious question, but for 6 rounds, any of the champions would be facing off against a 6'8, 270lb heavyweight with pop, a good developing heavy jab, and a boxing brain in the corner that 1)understands what tools his fighter is working with and 2)can effectively communicate the scenarios in the fight, accurately, to give his guy the best chance to win.
Wilder has already shown me that he can take a big heavyweight punch and keep his stamina to box a hard 12 round fight without much issue, but I still need to see if Joshua can push a hard 10/12 round pace or whether Joseph Parker can actually take a bigtime punch.Comment
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price isnt taking his career seriously at all
I remember after that first embarrassing loss he looked like the most depressed man ever in one interview and then at the last weigh in, his physique looked like that of a man who didnt even tryComment
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TS pm'ed me a ton of times, no idea why but they were extremely strange.
I can only conclude the thread is totally serious
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Price has a bad chin, he's too stiff and he put on way too much weight and can't fight past 5 rounds. Last night he entered the ring at 20 stone (280 lbs), which is way too big. He should be around 17-18 stone.
I don't see any way he comes back from this. He's gone through like 3 different trainers. Each of them have tried to emphasize distance and controlling fighters with his jab. Price does that... for a few rounds, and then he gets backed up into the ropes and looks totally lost.Comment
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