If David Price had wilders resume?

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  1. Bob Flaps

    Bob Flaps Boxing Addict Full Member

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    There's a simple answer to this; Wilder is still active and BoxRec has him at #89 while Price is #571. It's one of the few consistent ways to rate boxers based on who was there to beat at the time.
     
  2. DaRealJT

    DaRealJT Boxing Addict Full Member

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    If the best ever version of David Price fought Wilder's opponents at the time that Wilder fought them, giving Price the maximum benefit of doubt possible, he would win maybe 2 out of the last 14.

    Stiverne 1 - Loses
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    Duhaupas - Loses
    Szpilka - Loses
    Arreola - Loses brutally
    Washington - Loses brutally
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    Ortiz 1 - Loses brutally
    Fury 1 - Loses
    Breazeale - Loses
    Ortiz 2 - Loses brutally
    Fury 2 - Loses brutally
    Fury 3 - Loses brutally
    Helenius - Loses

    Wilder's resume is weak for a world champion; Price was never anywhere near world-level.
     
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  3. Here's Johnny

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    Spot on. Price hurt Thompson a couple of times early on and dropped him heavily with an absolute peach in the second. Thompson got up at 9 in what people have called a slow count. I genuinely think if Thompson had had one less Weetabix and stayed down Price’s career pans out so differently. Not saying he’d have dethroned Wlad the boring like many predicted. It feels like Price’s whole career pivoted on that moment. We never, ever saw him looking lean and quick like he did in them early days ever again. That’s nothing to do with better opposition. It’s that horrible nervous energy he wasted. Looking back a rematch in his own city, same arena straight after was daft. Maloney knew it in his teary post fight interview. It really was a coc.k off on his part.
     
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  4. Beale

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    The final sentence literally happened when his black & decker became a beef olive consumed by a poor unsuspecting Celtic FC fan based in Kilburn.
     
  5. Here's Johnny

    Here's Johnny Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Price would have beat Wilder.
     
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  6. Mitch87

    Mitch87 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Price beats them all except for Ortiz and Stiverne.
     
  7. Scissors

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    100% in his prime.
     
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  8. naranja

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    Prices chin wouldn't hold up
     
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  9. EJC83

    EJC83 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    If he'd beaten Thompson he'd still have been smashed about all over the place a few fights or less later. Nice guy but it's a career of failed tests the second he stepped up. Sport is full of what ifs and buts, the mental side and what you do outside of the sport is just as important as talent, especially as you go up the ladder, if he was really going to be a big player in the division he'd have beaten Thompson in the rematch, it's not like he was going in with a prime George Foreman for crying out loud.
     
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  10. Here's Johnny

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    He’d have still beaten Wilder though.
     
  11. Beale

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    Depends who landed first in that fight as both bang very hard.
     
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  12. lepinthehood

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    Price needs oxygen after 3 rounds.
     
  13. Redbeard7

    Redbeard7 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Price's best win may be Dave Allen, it may be Audley or Sokolowski. He got KO'd by Hammer and everyone above that level. Price wasn't as good as the similar Helenius (who recently took Joshua 7 rounds and busted him up, coming off a 1st round KO defeat to Wilder) and Helenius got KO'd by Duhaupas and Washington.
     
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