David Price (boxer)
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David Price is a professional British heavyweight boxer
from Liverpool
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twice at the 2003 USA vs. England Tournament. In August 2003 he won the Commonwealth Confederations tournament in Kuala Lumpur
, defeating Muzzafar Iqbal of Pakistan
21:9, and Justin Whitehead of Australia
22:6. At the Finnish Tammer Tournament in 2004 he was dominated and KO'd by Canadian puncher Bermane Stiverne
. He then defeated Gregory Corbin
on points in the England-U.S.A dual in Liverpool
.
Price lost to Roberto Cammarelle
in the quarter-finals of the European Amateur Boxing Championships
in Bulgaria
in 2004, a defeat that prevented him from going to the Athens
Olympics
that year. He won his second A.B.A Title in March 2005, defeating Damien Campbell of Repton ABC in the final. He went on to win the 4 Nations Championships and two weeks later, a win which enabled him to compete in the inaugural 4 Nations vs Cuba match, in which he was his side's sole victor, defeating Lisovan Hernandez. He participated at the 2005 World Amateur Boxing Championships but lost on points to Robert Helenius
25-22.
At the Strandya Cup in Bulgaria
, he was outgunned by Ukrainian Vyacheslav Glazkov
, though he ended the year on a high note defeating highly touted teenage compatriot Tyson Fury
22:8. Then going on to win his 3rd A.B.A title, defeating Tom Dallas
27:4.
At the 2007 Commonwealth Championships he stopped Australian Daniel Beahan
in the final.
Price captained the 2006 Commonwealth Games
boxing team in Melbourne
and achieved a gold medal there, beating Indian Varghese Johnson
in the process.
At the 2007 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Chicago
he defeated three opponents including Marko Tomasović
of Croatia
23:11, Frenchman Mohamed Samoudi whom he stopped, Primislav Dimovski (Skopje) 20:4 but a hand injury kept him from showing for his fight against Roberto Cammarelle
. GB head coach Terry Edwards
said: "David has boxed particularly well in these World Championships and it is therefore a big disappointment that he was unable to box for automatic Olympic qualification here in Chicago, a right he had fought for."
Two years after his Commonwealth Games success, Price captained the GB team who went to Beijing
for the 2008 Olympic Games, beating Romanian World Junior Champion Cristian Ciocanu to qualify. Price met European Champion Islam Timurziev
in the first round of the Olympics, and stopped the Russian in the second round after dropping him to the canvas on two occasions in the round, the scores were level at 2:2 at the time. The next round saw Price matched against Lithuanian Jaroslavas Jakšto
but Price progressed into the next round after Jakšto retired with an injury at the end of the first round when the scorecards favored Price, 3:1. Guaranteed at least a bronze medal, David Price was to meet Italian world champion Roberto Cammarelle
, a bout in which the referee stopped in the second round when the scores favored the eventual Olympic gold medalist, Cammarelle, 10:1. The Englishman ended an impressive run at the Olympics with a bronze medal in the 91+kg Super-Heavyweight division.
at the Liverpool Olympia
, inflicting a second round TKO propelling Price closer to a British Title shot. He recently scheduled a bout with John McDermott
, due to take place on 5 November 2011, but Price was forced to pull out of the British and Commonwealth title eliminator with a rib injury which he suffered in sparring with former England team-mate Danny Price
. Price also sparred with fellow heavyweight David Haye
before Haye's world title fight with Ukrainian Wladimir Klitschko
in July 2011.
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Boxing
Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...
from Liverpool
Liverpool
Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a borough in 1207 and was granted city status in 1880...
.
Amateur career
The 6 ' 8 Price boxed out of Salisbury ABC and in 2003 became the youngest ever A.B.A champion in the Super-Heavyweight division, he was 19 years and 272 days old. He competed for England at a number of international tournaments, he beat Travis KauffmanTravis Kauffman
Travis Kauffman is an American heavyweight boxer nicknamed "The Great White Hope". His current record is 21-1 .-Growing Up:Travis Kauffman was raised by his father Marshall, a self-employed single parent of two boys...
twice at the 2003 USA vs. England Tournament. In August 2003 he won the Commonwealth Confederations tournament in Kuala Lumpur
Kuala Lumpur
Kuala Lumpur is the capital and the second largest city in Malaysia by population. The city proper, making up an area of , has a population of 1.4 million as of 2010. Greater Kuala Lumpur, also known as the Klang Valley, is an urban agglomeration of 7.2 million...
, defeating Muzzafar Iqbal of Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
21:9, and Justin Whitehead of Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
22:6. At the Finnish Tammer Tournament in 2004 he was dominated and KO'd by Canadian puncher Bermane Stiverne
Bermane Stiverne
Bermane "B. WARE" Stiverne is a Canadian heavyweight boxer of Haitian descent.-Amateur:Stiverne was Canadian superheavyweight silver medallist in 2005. In 2003 and 2004 he won bronze. In international competition he beat Robert Helenius and David Price...
. He then defeated Gregory Corbin
Gregory Corbin
Greg Corbin is a US amateur boxer best known for winning the National Golden Gloves at super heavyweight in 2005.-Career:The 275 pounder beat Kimdo Bethel and Nathaniel James in the final....
on points in the England-U.S.A dual in Liverpool
Liverpool
Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a borough in 1207 and was granted city status in 1880...
.
Price lost to Roberto Cammarelle
Roberto Cammarelle
Roberto Cammarelle is an Italian boxer, best known for winning the World Amateur Boxing Championships in 2007 and 2009 as a super heavyweight and a gold medal at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.-Biography:...
in the quarter-finals of the European Amateur Boxing Championships
European Amateur Boxing Championships
The European Amateur Boxing Championships is the highest competition for boxing amateurs in Europe, organised by the continent's governing body EUBC, which stands for the European Boxing Confederation...
in Bulgaria
Bulgaria
Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...
in 2004, a defeat that prevented him from going to the Athens
Athens
Athens , is the capital and largest city of Greece. Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state...
Olympics
2004 Summer Olympics
The 2004 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, was a premier international multi-sport event held in Athens, Greece from August 13 to August 29, 2004 with the motto Welcome Home. 10,625 athletes competed, some 600 more than expected, accompanied by 5,501 team...
that year. He won his second A.B.A Title in March 2005, defeating Damien Campbell of Repton ABC in the final. He went on to win the 4 Nations Championships and two weeks later, a win which enabled him to compete in the inaugural 4 Nations vs Cuba match, in which he was his side's sole victor, defeating Lisovan Hernandez. He participated at the 2005 World Amateur Boxing Championships but lost on points to Robert Helenius
Robert Helenius
Robert "The Nordic Nightmare" Helenius is a Finnish professional Heavyweight boxer. As an amateur he won Silver at the European Championships 2006 at super heavyweight...
25-22.
At the Strandya Cup in Bulgaria
Bulgaria
Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...
, he was outgunned by Ukrainian Vyacheslav Glazkov
Vyacheslav Glazkov
Vyacheslav Glazkov is a Ukrainian professional boxer best known for winning the silver medal at the 2007 World Amateur Boxing Championships and Olympic bronze in the super heavyweight division as an amateur.-Amateur:...
, though he ended the year on a high note defeating highly touted teenage compatriot Tyson Fury
Tyson Fury
Luke Tyson Fury is an Irish professional boxer who fights in the heavyweight division. He has represented both Ireland and England at amateur level and won the ABA championship in 2008 before turning professional later that year...
22:8. Then going on to win his 3rd A.B.A title, defeating Tom Dallas
Tom Dallas
Tom Dallas is a British heavyweight boxer based in Chatham, Kent, United Kingdom. Dallas is currently promoted by Frank Maloney.-Amateur career:...
27:4.
At the 2007 Commonwealth Championships he stopped Australian Daniel Beahan
Daniel Beahan
Daniel Beahan is an Australian amateur boxer best known to qualify for the Olympics 2008 at super heavyweight.-Career:...
in the final.
2006 Commonwealth Games
Price captained the 2006 Commonwealth Games
2006 Commonwealth Games
The 2006 Commonwealth Games were held in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia between 15 March and 26 March 2006. It was the largest sporting event to be staged in Melbourne, eclipsing the 1956 Summer Olympics in terms of the number of teams competing, athletes competing, and events being held.The site...
boxing team in Melbourne
Melbourne
Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
and achieved a gold medal there, beating Indian Varghese Johnson
Varghese Johnson
Varghese Johnson is an amateur boxer from India who repeatedly medaled in the Super Heavyweight division.-Career:In Melbourne at the Commonwealth Games 2006 he won Bronze losing to David Price....
in the process.
2007 World Amateur Boxing Championships
At the 2007 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
he defeated three opponents including Marko Tomasović
Marko Tomasovic (boxer)
Marko Tomasović is a Croatian boxer and kickboxer, best known to qualify for the Olympics 2008 at super heavyweight. He is tall and weights .-Career:In 2005 Marko entered the W.A.K.O...
of Croatia
Croatia
Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...
23:11, Frenchman Mohamed Samoudi whom he stopped, Primislav Dimovski (Skopje) 20:4 but a hand injury kept him from showing for his fight against Roberto Cammarelle
Roberto Cammarelle
Roberto Cammarelle is an Italian boxer, best known for winning the World Amateur Boxing Championships in 2007 and 2009 as a super heavyweight and a gold medal at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.-Biography:...
. GB head coach Terry Edwards
Terry Edwards
Terry Edwards is an English musician.Edwards gained a degree in music from the University of East Anglia in 1982, where he was also a founding member of The Higsons. He produced and played on the debut album by Yeah Jazz "Six Lane Ends"...
said: "David has boxed particularly well in these World Championships and it is therefore a big disappointment that he was unable to box for automatic Olympic qualification here in Chicago, a right he had fought for."
2008 Olympic Games
Two years after his Commonwealth Games success, Price captained the GB team who went to Beijing
Beijing
Beijing , also known as Peking , is the capital of the People's Republic of China and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of 19,612,368 as of 2010. The city is the country's political, cultural, and educational center, and home to the headquarters for most of China's...
for the 2008 Olympic Games, beating Romanian World Junior Champion Cristian Ciocanu to qualify. Price met European Champion Islam Timurziev
Islam Timurziev
Islam Yahyayevich Timurziev is a Russian amateur boxer best known for winning the European superheavyweight title in 2006.-Career:...
in the first round of the Olympics, and stopped the Russian in the second round after dropping him to the canvas on two occasions in the round, the scores were level at 2:2 at the time. The next round saw Price matched against Lithuanian Jaroslavas Jakšto
Jaroslavas Jakšto
Jaroslavas Jakšto is a male amateur boxer from Lithuania best known for winning super heavyweight bronze at the 2004 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Pula, Croatia...
but Price progressed into the next round after Jakšto retired with an injury at the end of the first round when the scorecards favored Price, 3:1. Guaranteed at least a bronze medal, David Price was to meet Italian world champion Roberto Cammarelle
Roberto Cammarelle
Roberto Cammarelle is an Italian boxer, best known for winning the World Amateur Boxing Championships in 2007 and 2009 as a super heavyweight and a gold medal at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.-Biography:...
, a bout in which the referee stopped in the second round when the scores favored the eventual Olympic gold medalist, Cammarelle, 10:1. The Englishman ended an impressive run at the Olympics with a bronze medal in the 91+kg Super-Heavyweight division.
Professional career
'Pricey' is currently unbeaten as a professional since turning pro in January 2009 with Haymaker Promotions, he boasts a record of 11(9)-0-0 and most recently stopped fellow British fighter Tom DallasTom Dallas
Tom Dallas is a British heavyweight boxer based in Chatham, Kent, United Kingdom. Dallas is currently promoted by Frank Maloney.-Amateur career:...
at the Liverpool Olympia
Liverpool Olympia
The Liverpool Olympia is situated next to The Grafton Ballroom on West Derby Road, Liverpool, England.-History:The Liverpool Olympia was built in 1905 For Moss Empires Ltd by architect Frank Matcham as a purpose built indoor circus and variety theatre...
, inflicting a second round TKO propelling Price closer to a British Title shot. He recently scheduled a bout with John McDermott
John McDermott
John McDermott may refer to:*John McDermott , American athlete*John McDermott , former Grimsby Town footballer*John McDermott , former Meath Gaelic footballer*John McDermott , British boxer...
, due to take place on 5 November 2011, but Price was forced to pull out of the British and Commonwealth title eliminator with a rib injury which he suffered in sparring with former England team-mate Danny Price
Danny Price
Danny Price was the head coach of the Florida International University baseball team, a position that he held from 1980 until May 2007. During that span, he became one of the few collegiate baseball coaches to record a thousand coaching victories, reaching that milestone on March 10, 2005.Price,...
. Price also sparred with fellow heavyweight David Haye
David Haye
David Deron Haye is a retired English professional boxer,Haye is the former WBA heavyweight champion. He is also the former unified world cruiserweight champion, holding the WBA, WBC, WBO, and The Ring cruiserweight titles, and also the former European cruiserweight champion.- Amateur :Haye...
before Haye's world title fight with Ukrainian Wladimir Klitschko
Wladimir Klitschko
Wladimir Klitschko is a Ukrainian heavyweight boxer. Klitschko is the WBA , IBF, WBO Super, IBO & Ring Magazine Champion. His older brother Vitali Klitschko is the current WBC champion...
in July 2011.
Professional boxing record
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John McDermott
John McDermott may refer to:*John McDermott , American athlete*John McDermott , former Grimsby Town footballer*John McDermott , former Meath Gaelic footballer*John McDermott , British boxer...
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Raphael Butler|||||
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Osborne Machimana|||||
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Raman Sukhaterin|||||
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Daniil Peretyatko|||||
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Martyn Grainger|||||
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Dmitrijs Basovs|||||
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Yavor Marinchev|||||
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Liridon Memishi|||||
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David Ingleby|||||
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External links
- Commonwealth Games 2006 results
- Commonwealth Championships (not C.Games!) Results 2007
- Foto
- Bio
- 2nd qualifier
- Amateur record (incomplete)