If David Price had wilders resume?

Price wouldn't have even got to the stage to fight for the WBC title. Price had a very shaky 1st round vs 45 year old Skelton and that was his 15th fight, the one directly before Thompson. Wilder fought several guys good enough to beat or draw with Price on a given night in his first 32 fights pre-Stiverne. Morales, Sconiers, Manswell, K. Price, Liakhovich, Firtha, Scott, Gavern. None of those are gimmes for Price.

 

Then onto the toilet roll

 

Price fought Thompson in fifteen fights or so
Wilder fought in fifteen fights
Deandrey abron

Levels people

As I said they would have never put a Klitschko scalp in there with wilder in fifteen fight hell double it lol

 

Yeah the British scene... when he stepped up in levels he couldn't produce the same form could he

 

Price had his ceiling. I'd say European level at best. It's a shame as he had lots of heart and power but his stamina was poor. Always in entertaining fights though. I liked his fight against Povetkin.

 

Watched an interview with Pete DeFreitas recently. Pete described Wilder as a basket ball player with a big punch. It’s not a bad description imo. Big David Price would of given Wilder plenty to think about. David is a much more proficient boxer than Wilder, and can whack.
I miss watching Pricey. He was exciting to watch. You knew he was vulnerable, but he could also punch. You couldn’t take your eyes off it. Great viewing, and fair play to David. It took some real guts to keep on coming back and giving it a go.

 

Excellent points here mate.

 

"His vulnerabilities never shown until after the Tony Thomson fights"

45/46 year old Skelton made Price uncomfortable in the first round of their fight, the fight before his 16th against Thompson. Skelton had lost to Sprott 2 years prior, had been KO'd 3 years prior by Pulev, KO'd by Pianeta and KO'd by Rogan 4 years prior.

All of Price's forays above domestic level ended in a KO defeat (7 in total), including his fight against Hammer.

None of Wilder's first 32 opponents were world beaters by any stretch of the imagination but I don't see how one could be confident that Price would get through all of them (nevermind Stiverne on). These would have been some of the most obvious banana skins:

Morales: durable and awkward spoiler, beat future world title challenger Cojanu, drew with undefeated prospects Seth Mitchell and Charles Martin

Sconiers: veteran, on a two fight win streak, dropped Wilder, would go on to beat McCline

K. Price: undefeated, beat undefeated Tor Hamer, who'd beat Kevin Johnson in a Prizefighter final

Liakhovich: former WBO titlist, would go on to give Andy Ruiz a competitive 10 round distance fight

Firtha: gave Fury a war and went the 10 round distance with Povetkin, one judge had Firtha winning 2 rounds

Scott: was ahead on the scorecards against Chisora after 5 rounds (much better than Price managed), survived 12 against Ortiz, "drew" with Glazkov (most had Scott winning) and outboxed Thompson over 10, who KO'd Price x2

 

He loses to Fury, Ortiz and maybe Arreola and Duhuapas

 

Price got KO'd a bunch of times in the amateurs and dropped even more, his chin was always an accident waiting to happen. He had no realistic path to a title. Even with Joshua's path to Martin he'd have run into Whyte first and very likely got KO'd.

Price had 15 fights prior to Thompson, Wilder had 32 prior to Stiverne. I don't see the guys I listed as Wilder's most obvious banana skin opponents in the first 32 (Morales, Sconiers, K. Price, Liakhovich, Firtha, Scott) as walkovers for Price. It's very likely that at least one, probably more would have got results against him.

 

I still don't get the point of this thread

 

Ah ****
Who left the door open

 

Me neither, Wilder's resume maybe thin but David Price could never do it beyond national level.