It's Price all week for me. Price has been looking dominant, strong, seriously barely even being troubled by anyone, and each of his opponents has been an improvement, a slight step up, he's moving in the right direction. Fury has fought higher profile opponents, but that doesn't mean that they're all as good as the perception, to my mind. Rogan was badly shot and Fury just mucked about with his stance etc., treated it like a sparring session. He looked good, but against nothing and it bore little relation to his other fights. Vinny Madalone looked like a mismatch against a bum to anyone who had never heard of him - beating up a small, old man doesn't mean anything even if people have heard of him. He did Chisora on points when he looked so fat and disinterested it was really an invitation to put it on him - Fury didn't. He did put it on the entirely unheralded Nevin Pajic (sp!) and got dropped for his trouble - Price would have just flattened him. And let's be honest - Fury lost the first McDermott fight, he just did. That six point margin in his favour was one of the most disgraceful scores I have ever seen, up there with Ottke-Reid. Then there's the footage of him punching himself in the face, and gassing repeatedly in the first two or three rounds of many of his fights (eg. McDermott). Okay, he has fixed that now (although will be interesting to see him in with someone who makes him work, personally I was gutted that 'The Kingpin' seemed to think that the sole point of boxing is to avoid getting knocked out), but Price never went through that, he has never looked like the basics like being fit enough to get through the fight were an issue.
I sort of like Fury - although I think he is trying to cherry pick his way to a world title shot too much, and has sadly not backed up his mouth in the past year - but for me this one is obvious. Fury has cut corners, showed all sorts of flaws and fought high-profile instead of high-skill/danger opposition. Price might not have the show and the mouth, but he has steadily stepped up the opposition, he has two belts he really doesn't look like losing, he doesn't show particular weaknesses and his power, aggression and killer instinct look like a nightmare tailor-made for taking Fury's head off. It's the fight I most want to see, bar none (a few years too late for Floyd-Pac), but I don't even think this would be particularly competitive unless Price walked onto one in the opening round. From round two on, Fury gets hurt, pushed back and dropped. Brutally.
