Joshua vs David Price?

No he couldn’t. Price has zero skill and a vulnerable chin. Joshua out works him and stops him toward the middle of the fight.

 

I've never seen what's so prospective about Price. Size and power, sure, but he always moved kinda funny in that ring, didn't wear the size well, unlike the Klitschkos, Fury, even Joshua.

I always thought I could tell he's not a talent, especially that his small head suggested no granite chin.

Bar some rather lucky shot, I think he gets stopped mid-rounds, now or then. Can't see him coping with a powerful, technically solid, coordinated man his own size for too long.

 

Early Price could have KO'd him, that's fair to say as that Price was aggressive and dangerous. It would have been a shootout and probably both could win, but Price had more stopping power then.

Everyone knows he lost confidence after the KO's (not too different to joshua in that way) and I think he lost some power with shoulder surgery or something.

But he still one-shot dropped Thompson, Hammer, and basically did that to Povetkin too. That means he could still badly hurt Joshua at any point.

Even the lesser Price would still have a chance to land one on joshua and change or win the fight. He took some shots from Povetkin too and was dropped and fought on, so it's not like Joshua would just stop him with the first big shot necessarily.

The reality is that a dangerous undefeated Price would never have been allowed near joshua, even if the timing had been there. It would have been like the wilder fight, but worse since Price already KO'd aj in sparring. So basically the fight would only have happened when Matchroom thought Price was done and even then would be nervous about it. And naysayers to that can refer to the Franklin fight this year, followed by a scheduled Whyte fight, followed by the Helenius replacement.

 

This thread has cropped up a few times.

With Price I can't get past the fact that he got stopped every time he went past British domestic level (7 occasions). He's a giant, very powerful and had good amateur pedigree but was so lacking in other areas that he objectively wasn't very dangerous against better opponents. He dropped three of them (Thompson, Hammer, Povetkin) which was no mean feat but he couldn't capitalise.

He famously sparked Joshua in the gym but that was (retrospectively) a prime domestic level destroying Price against a relative novice 21/22 year old pre-Olympics Joshua who'd just got out of prison and probably weighed around the low 220's. Even with the psychological edge in that area, I don't think one could reasonably give Price much more than a 10% chance. He still had a better chance than Molina did though, who came to lie down. Hence the Price fight didn't get made by Matchroom when he was in contention for it in 2016, even though it would have generated greater interest and more money.

 

AJ in 2 rounds. Price is the epitome of British glass.

 

I know it’s a sparring story but it’s widely known that Price KOd Joshua heavily,hence the reason that Hearn kept Joshua well away from him on his rise through the paid ranks .

 

I would slightly favour price now and in his prime he would do Aj in a single round

 

Price has 0 skill?

Don't talk crap

 

Price was a decent boxer, but nothing more. With his glass chin, even if he outboxes AJ, he would lose via KO.

 

Did you see what AJ did to Povetkin?

 

AJ has beaten better fighters than Price did.