David Price Too Lazy To Be Champion

Price is almost 30. He has just 16 fights. He fought just 4 times last year yet he was just an up and comer. He fought on 23 feb this year. And I have just read that his next fight - even before this defeat - was going to be in june/july anyway. That is 4-5 months after this fight. Who does Price think he is? He is an up and coming prospect ffs, who does not exactly have time on his hands. He should be in the gym every day almost, not takin weeks and weeks off between training camps. These are his best development years (if they have not gone already that is). He has a lot of flaws that need ironing out (even before this defeat) so should be in the gym dealing with these.

But most of all he should be out more regularly. He should be fighting every two months. He should fight, 1 week off, 7 week training, and so on. But he is too damn lazy. He had three weeks off between his last fights. It is not like the would not be able to find some tough gatekeepers willing to fight him. They could fight at the echo arena or aintree and sell a lot of tickets and they could pay the gatekeeper more than he would earn elsewhere, Money talks and there is not much money in boxing these days (except at the very top level or top prospects such as Price).

Why would someone his age be fighting so infrquently? He would have never been ready for someone as skillful, but most impotantly, as experienced as Klitschko given how few fights he would have had. I get the feeling that Price was always waiting for Klitschko to retire, anyone else? He had no intention of fighting them as he knows he would be no match. He is a poor mans Klitschko, always has been.

I just get this feeling (from interviews I have seen/read) that he hates being in the gym and would rather avoid it. If he is going to get better and reach his full potential he needs to be a hardcore gym peron. Yes you can overtrain, but I get the feeling price is severely undertraining. What is wrong with 7 weeks off and 1 full week rest. Perfect. Price you are a lazy bum who has many deficiencies and unless you gey your ass in the gym more often and possibly even get yourself a new trainer instead of this amateur franny smith (who is actually picking things up along the way from an interview I seen with him) you are going nowhere.

 

If he was the heavyweight Champ then he can fight 3/4 times a year but not as an up and comer. Does not make sense.

 

His fellow scouser Bellew has a funny atitude as well. Makes me laugh when he says about his opponent that when he is in bed he is out running. Like he is the only boxer in the world who gets up early to go on runs. I am not a boxer and I get up 5.30 every morning to run. Bellew does not realise that to be a top athlete, the 1 percenters, it is pretty standard to train like one.

 

Who do you think has the ball in their court, Price or Maloney? Price could (well before Saturday) have walked in to any prmotional outfit in the world, even Golden Boy. He did not need Frank Malony, but Maloney needed him for a pension. Price has a mouth and he could have spoken up. You can't just blame Maloney.

 

He was due to fight june/july (means july) and then he would probably fight one moe time after that, meaning just three fights in a year. Terrible. And they are on boxnation now so got tv dates.

 

agreed