David Price Heavyweight 7-0 (5KO's) Frank Maloney Promotions Price was the last of the 6 Olympians to turn pro, making his debut with Hayemaker promotions. There setanta deal fell though which left Price without a fight for 6 months until he signed up with with Frank Maloney. Unfortunatley his progress has been extremly slow, he has been getting fights, but agaisnt soft eastern european opposition. His first opponent Dave Ingleby and well known journeyman have been his toughest opponents so far. In the new season everyone would like to see a step up in class, with him going up against some domestic opponents that show up to win. He should be looking to fight 3 times. I would currently rank him 10th in line for a British title. Tony Jeffires Light Heavyweight 7-0-1 (5KO's) Frank Maloney Promotions Jeffries is another who took a while to make his debut due to promotional problems, initially signing with Dennis Hobson who failed to provide a TV deal. He like Price moved over to Frank Maloney, who has done a good job in pushing Jeffries in his home town of Sunderland where he is a big ticket seller. He has been fighting reguarly, and with 8 fights he has been boxed more than any of the other Olympians, however he has failed to impress since his early fights. Many feel he is to eager to impress his legion of fans, other feel he should have stuck with origional trainer Joe Gallagher. In his last fight he drew with Michael Banbula in a controversial fight where Jeffries thought it was a 6 rounder, only for the ref to contuinue the fight after the 6th for 2 more rounds. The draw was disapointing, although its worth pointing out Banbula is the probably the the best opponent faced by one of the 6 pro olympians. In the new season, he should probably fit in a warm up fight and then rematch Banbula to settle the score over 8 rounds (known in advance). I would currently rank him 8th in line for a British title fight. James DeGale Super Middleweight 7-0 (5KO's) Frank Warren Promotions Gold medal winner James DeGale has stried up a fair bit of controversy since turning pro. He was booed by the crowd at his first few fights, and he has got on the wrong side of allot of hardcore fans with his attitude. DeGale was always going to recieve tough love from the hardcore fans, and the role of villan seems to be sitting well with him. In the ring, he has performed, all be it agaisnt poor opposition. His first fight wasn't great, but since then he has been improving with every bout and stopping opponents he is supposed to stop picking up a minor title on route, although he has not been active enough due to promoter Frank Warrens TV issues. His next fight is a british title eliminator agaisnt Carl Dilks, a decent step up. From there a British title in 2010 is a real possibily and will be quite an achievment after 9-10 fights. I currently rank him 7th in line for a British title, he will jump up a few places if he beats Dilks in style.
Surprised this hasnt caught on yet, I'll wait until you've done the lot before I comment Rob but nice 1 so far
As said, ideally Jeffries will rematch Banbula and we can hopefully see if the injury/ rounds misunderstanding was a big factor as Jeffries has claimed. Dilks is a good match up for DeGale. He should obviously win but its step in the right direction quality of opposition wise.
Still wonder about Sutherland man .Wonder how he'd be doing .I think he had the tools man .If he had a good team behind him I think he could atleast have been world title level .Look at Khan man and Steve Collins also got trained off Freddie Roach .Sutherland said by the time the next olympics came around he hoped to be fighting or won a world title .Look at Dirrell man he got a bronze in 2004 as well he's a year younger than Sutherland .I think he should have got Froch's belt .If only an Olympics earlier man sad we'll never know .
i no he got injured a while back but i think he's defo falling behind the other two.either that or warren is taking things a lot slower with him