[Roe]

David Price vs Tony Thompson
12 rounds Heavyweight
23rd Feb, 2013 - Echo Arena, Liverpool, UK - BoxNation: 7pm (UK) / Wealth TV: 3pm ET (USA)

 

[Roe]

 

[Earl-Hickey]

Price should win but I doubt it'll be easy, Thompson is a good fighter if you look outside his Wlad performances, is Price as good as Wlad?

 

[Boxed Ears]

Dammit, @Roe. Your poll options are always too specific without enough options. :lol:
I might be one of the foolish ones but I'm really, really looking forward to this one. If Tony is hungry for this and it really is just Klitschko who seems to be able to break him as a fighter, despite age, it could get very interesting. However, I look for Price to win. I hope to hell we get an account from Thompson that shows he's not all he showed against Klitschko to the general public who didn't follow him otherwise yet still get an account from Price that shows he's still a red hot prospect. Please, please let this be a good fight!

 

[Thomas!!]

Price by extreme knockout destruction

 

[Roe]

Dammit, @Roe. Your poll options are always too specific without enough options. :lol:

:lol: I can add something else if you want?

 

[Roe]

 

[Post Box]

Interesting fight this one. On one hand I could see Thompson giving him alot of problems and making it a long and frustrating night for Price, but on the other I can see him getting flattened easily inside 4 rounds :lol:. Price needs to jump on him from the bell imo, see what fight the old dog has left in him, if given time to settle into a rhythm it could be a long night. Looking forward to it.

 

[Roe]

Betfair's preview:

Boxing Betting: Thompson to provide no obstacle to David Price

David Price is back in the ring this Saturday night, taking on journeyman Tony Thompson. Alex Steedman thinks Price will be too much for the ageing American...

There is something quite shocking about the sound of a heavyweight punch. I was ringside for BoxNation when David Price unleashed that hellish right hand against Audley Harrison's face last October. It was some time before Audley could be assisted back to his stool, nose misshapen and bleeding onto the canvass. That sound and image is with me now as Price returns to the ring.

Price's opponent this weekend, Tony Thompson - 11.5 - is some way beyond Harrison in terms of professional pedigree. The American has comfortably taken care of the division's nearly men Owen Beck and Chazz Witherspoon in the recent past and only Wladimir Klitschko has bettered Thompson in 34 fights spanning more than 12 years. He's a tall southpaw with experience and confidence in himself but I'm of the opinion that Thompson is on the way out.

I was again ringside in Berne when Thompson challenged Klitschko for all the jewels last summer. The American had lasted 11 rounds against Wladimir four years previously but he was out of there pronto in six that time around and to my eye, Thompson could've fought on. The 'The Tiger' is talking up his chances again but that's his style. His body language in Switzerland was of a man providing for his family with his thoughts elsewhere, and that's a dangerous place to be inside a ring with David Price 1.1.

The Liverpudlian has morphed into a wrecking machine in the last 18 months; the big right hand, so familiar now, dispatching Tom Dallas early in 2011 was the spark for Price who is on a run of nine successive KOs 1.22 KO/TKO/DQ. That includes first round demolitions of Harrison and John McDermott (who went 19 rounds in two bouts with Tyson Fury) as well as comprehensive early victories over Sam Sexton and Matt Skelton. Price isn't in a hurry like Fury but he's punching like he is.

Two or three years ago, Thompson would have been the perfect foil to take Price some yards, if not the distance. It is still possible that he can bluff his way through some rounds and on previous form, Price by DEC/TD would look big at 9.2 but I'm pretty sure Thompson is here for the money, that the soft call from the land of pipe and slippers is growing louder all the while. Price is developing into a ruthless operator and he won't let Thompson fiddle this. A stoppage win would put Price's name alongside the Klitschkos inside the record books and on that sort of form, it won't be too long before they're closer still.

http://betting.betfair.com/betting/...de-no-obstacle-to-david-price-200213-131.html

 

[Roe]

Just to say that BoxNation have a special preview show on David Price tonight at 7:30, called 'The Next Big Thing'. It's on freeview so you don't have to be subscribed to BN to watch.

 

[nufc_jay]

This is going to be very, very easy for Price. Why they'r ebothering sticking an old, immobile Thompson in the same ring as Price I've no idea, he's tailor made for a shoeing

 

[Ilesey]

Dammit, @Roe. Your poll options are always too specific without enough options. :lol:
I might be one of the foolish ones but I'm really, really looking forward to this one. If Tony is hungry for this and it really is just Klitschko who seems to be able to break him as a fighter, despite age, it could get very interesting. However, I look for Price to win. I hope to hell we get an account from Thompson that shows he's not all he showed against Klitschko to the general public who didn't follow him otherwise yet still get an account from Price that shows he's still a red hot prospect. Please, please let this be a good fight!

Solid post, Kevin.

However, I get the feeling that Thompson is just at that stage in his career where he's slowing down and may not have the mental fortitude to drag himself up off the canvas if Price lands with one of his hunchback right hands. The hunger issue is a big 'if' for me. I think Thompson realises he's at a crossroads and an up n comer like Price will probably end up having too much for him.

I, like you hope for a good fight. I also like you.

 

[Roe]

 

[w;dkm ckeqfjq c]

Interesting stuff about his chin, talking about how Haye has hit him clean on the chin and he took it alright etc.

 

[Lilo]

Looks pretty certain that'll be Price-Chisora next. They're already talking about it and to be honest Chisora is pretty well known now to the general sporting public. It'd obviously sell out the Echo but could it be a stadium fight?

Feb - Thompson
June - "A top American" Walker if his wins PF?
Sept - Chisora
Dec - "A top European" Pulev (unlikely), Dimitrenko?

Even if he ends 2013 unbeaten having beaten Thompson and Chisora then that's a good year IMO.

 

[w;dkm ckeqfjq c]

Looks pretty certain that'll be Price-Chisora next. They're already talking about it and to be honest Chisora is pretty well known now to the general sporting public. It'd obviously sell out the Echo but could it be a stadium fight?

Feb - Thompson
June - "A top American" Walker if his wins PF?
Sept - Chisora
Dec - "A top European" Pulev (unlikely), Dimitrenko?

Even if he ends 2013 unbeaten having beaten Thompson and Chisora then that's a good year IMO.

I'm not entirely sure he beats Chisora.

 

[BUMPY]

Thompson is not here to win.

 

[Roe]

The weigh in is live here:

Edit: or was..

Price weighs in 17 9. Thompson, heavier at 18 10

Not that any of this means anything

 

[Lunny]

Looks pretty certain that'll be Price-Chisora next. They're already talking about it and to be honest Chisora is pretty well known now to the general sporting public. It'd obviously sell out the Echo but could it be a stadium fight?

Feb - Thompson
June - "A top American" Walker if his wins PF?
Sept - Chisora
Dec - "A top European" Pulev (unlikely), Dimitrenko?

Even if he ends 2013 unbeaten having beaten Thompson and Chisora then that's a good year IMO.

I don't think Chisora is a stadium name at the moment.

Chisora needs to get some wins under his belt. Price beats him and people will just say "everyone's beat Chisora", he'll get no credit for it. We all know Chisora is a very credible opponent but people won't see it that way.

I'd like to see Chisora avenge his defeat to Fury or at least do something before becoming an underrated W on someone's record. Is Price's British title going to be vacant soon? Chisora should go back down a level.

 

[Lunny]

I'm not entirely sure he beats Chisora.

Same here but if he does beat Chisora then it'll be seen as a shit opponent. I wouldn't bother if I was Price/Maloney.