Price-Thompson: Predictions?

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Well, Thompson's come in at 262lbs, his heaviest ever. And judging by his comments about retirement he is expecting to lose. Price is at 247, the same as when he pancaked Harrison.

I don't see this going past 4 rounds, and if it does, it'll be target practice. Thompson turning up for a payday and hopefully showing slightly more than Johnson did against Fury. However, the first power shot Price connects with, Thompson goes down.

My actual reckoning is 2 rounds max, unless Tony gets lucky. It's going to be a walkover.

hampo171 wrote:That won't stop Az saying he has a china chin. Thompson could have hit him clean 50 times bang on the chin and then landed that shot and I still think Az would say he had a dodgy chin.

This is no more a set back than Prescott was for Khan, big difference he has one punch KO power and that's a huge bonus.

Sorry but this is a huge setback. Far worse than Prescott/Khan. But should Price decide to carry on, he will make for exciting fights. All boxers now know he lacks punch resistance and will back up their threatening stares to his chin area with punches.

So he's not chinny... He's necky?

This has come as great news for me. Price was being hyped up so much after his wins against Audley and Skelton. People were even saying he was better than the Klitschkos and would knock them out. I am glad that a 41 year old massively out of shape Thompson proved that myth wrong.

Price has faced C level opposition and looked good but the moment he got in the ring with a B level fighter he got knocked out in 2 rounds.

azania wrote:

DAVE667 wrote:

azania wrote:Wow. Now that surprised me. Not even a hard punch. It seems I over-estimated his chin. Its weaker than I gave him credit for.

Sure is...especially as he got clipped round the back of the head.

Sadly we still don't really know if Price is chinny as he wasn't actually hit on the chin...cold comfort for him at this point though

Oh come on. Khan got shelacked by a punch to the neck and people call him chinny.

Let me rephrase it then. Price lack adequate punch resistance. GB level or perhaps Euro level at the very best. He's been fighting planks all his pro career. Reminds me of the line in Enter the Dragon "boards don't hit back".

A fat 41 year old destroyed him. What a shame

Come now, Khan got the chinny label after being floored by Willie Limond and Michael Gomez long before Prescott and Garcia had him on silly street

They were right about what they said about Price having a chin of glass, quite gutted as i hoped he could challenge Wladimir in some capacity at some point but clearly not, being Ko'd by that shot which was from an average puncher with more of a glancing blow, i'd worry for his health if he fought Klitschko. Mitchell, Price and Fury, three up and coming heavies all have dodgy chins, a real shame..

be sporting guys. Az was spot on. that was not anywhere near world class there from price. i said before he reminds me of a young tye fields and that i thought fury would beat him. knocking out domestic opponents in 2 rounds is an impressive feat, but it doesnt mean you are a world class boxer. he was struggling before the KO, and thompson was well off the pace

A fat 41 year old destroyed him

An ever fatter by a distance fatty Big Mac murdered Fury as well.

And he's not even got above domestic level.

hampo171 wrote:Didn't Willie Limond drop Khan only for him to get saved by a "long" count?

No long count there. You're making things up. Price is chinny as I've been banging on for ages. If a cop wearing pillows for gloves send you to queer street, you are chinny (or heady).

Thompson would beat Fury as well, maybe Price should have took Fury's lead and fought Dwarves and Crusierweights that way he could have stayed unbeaten longer.

azania wrote:

DAVE667 wrote:

azania wrote:Wow. Now that surprised me. Not even a hard punch. It seems I over-estimated his chin. Its weaker than I gave him credit for.

Sure is...especially as he got clipped round the back of the head.

Sadly we still don't really know if Price is chinny as he wasn't actually hit on the chin...cold comfort for him at this point though

Oh come on. Khan got shelacked by a punch to the neck and people call him chinny.

Let me rephrase it then. Price lack adequate punch resistance. GB level or perhaps Euro level at the very best. He's been fighting planks all his pro career. Reminds me of the line in Enter the Dragon "boards don't hit back".

A fat 41 year old destroyed him. What a shame

You're comparing the punch power of LWW to a HW? Come on Az..... It was a strange KO but I've seen stranger. The omens aren't great but I don't think that is evidence to conclusively prove he is "chinny"... especially at HW.

Lets not forget, Manny was KO'd by Terracampo in his, what, 10th fight. Is he chinny?

John Bloody Wayne wrote:So Mitchell loses in two rounds.
Price loses in two rounds.
Who's next, Wilder or Fury?

Vitali when Haye ends his career.

Fury beats Thompson that was a lucky shot lets be honest.

Price needs an instant makeover time to sign with Hearns.

How am I making things up by asking a question? Dear me. Anyway I'm off to bed as talking to Az is worse than watching paint dry.

im surprised that people are still trying to defend price. hes fought poor opposition and got knocked out in 2 first time he stepped up a level. people are getting as bad as Az! argueing with posters instead of actually argueing what they believe

DAVE667 wrote:

azania wrote:

DAVE667 wrote:

azania wrote:Wow. Now that surprised me. Not even a hard punch. It seems I over-estimated his chin. Its weaker than I gave him credit for.

Sure is...especially as he got clipped round the back of the head.

Sadly we still don't really know if Price is chinny as he wasn't actually hit on the chin...cold comfort for him at this point though

Oh come on. Khan got shelacked by a punch to the neck and people call him chinny.

Let me rephrase it then. Price lack adequate punch resistance. GB level or perhaps Euro level at the very best. He's been fighting planks all his pro career. Reminds me of the line in Enter the Dragon "boards don't hit back".

A fat 41 year old destroyed him. What a shame

Come now, Khan got the chinny label after being floored by Willie Limond and Michael Gomez long before Prescott and Garcia had him on silly street

True. But Price got stopped by a cop wearing pillows and decked by Fury, yet you gus somehow imagined he grew muscles on his chin. How deluded do you feel now?

Getting knocked out happens in the Heavies doesnt always mean they are chinny, fighters better than Price have been sparked and come back and had long and successful careers.

hampo171 wrote:How am I making things up by asking a question? Dear me. Anyway I'm off to bed as talking to Az is worse than watching paint dry.

What long count? There was none hence you're making things up.

Gee wrote:

A fat 41 year old destroyed him

An ever fatter by a distance fatty Big Mac murdered Fury as well.

And he's not even got above domestic level.

An 8 fight novice Fury who set the record straight the next time they met. For the record and to show I am not biased or blinded by partisanship, I had Fat Mac winning that fight.

It was a question, if I was making a statement I would have been however I was checking if my memory was correct.

Jesus get more sense out of Price after that punch.

ONETWOFOREVER wrote:Fury beats Thompson that was a lucky shot lets be honest.

Price needs an instant makeover time to sign with Hearns.

Lucky shot? They were in the middle of the ring having an exchange and Thompson landed a punch. Nothing lucky about it at all. The fact it landed where it did does not make it lucky.

hogey wrote:Thompson would beat Fury as well, maybe Price should have took Fury's lead and fought Dwarves and Crusierweights that way he could have stayed unbeaten longer.

No he wouldn't. Fury wouldn't be so amateurish. He's improving and Thompson is not busy enough to do much. Plus it looks like Fury has more balls and a better chin. At least he got up and beat the guy who kd him. Price stayed down.

Lance wrote:im surprised that people are still trying to defend price. hes fought poor opposition and got knocked out in 2 first time he stepped up a level. people are getting as bad as Az! argueing with posters instead of actually argueing what they believe

Until you are undisputed world champ, every fight should be a "step up". Your comment is disingenous. He is a HW and got KO'd. Most people are saying that isn't anything to get too excited about. Wlad is "chinny".... it hasn't scuppered his career.....

azania wrote:

Gee wrote:

A fat 41 year old destroyed him

An ever fatter by a distance fatty Big Mac murdered Fury as well.

And he's not even got above domestic level.

An 8 fight novice Fury who set the record straight the next time they met. For the record and to show I am not biased or blinded by partisanship, I had Fat Mac winning that fight.

8 fight, 15 fights... doesn't really matter when we pick holes.

Sadly this is quickly becoming and has gone past a Lopez/Gamboa but a domestic one.... I.e. keep building the fight up until one loses.

Still, I fancy Price to beat Fury. Barring a shot from the blue I still can't see any way in which Fury would stand a chance.

And yes, in HW boxing there's always that chance you'd see a punch land. Lewis was reckoned to be chinny, and got spanked early.... but he didn't do too bad for himself.

Still, big set back

Don't think folk are deluded, Khan got beaten and went onto better things, just seems strange that you'd be so willing to write a guy off after being smacked round the back of the ear. Maybe he'll never rise above domestic level but Haye got beaten when he stepped in with Carl Thompson yet he did OK afterwards. Seems your dislike of Price extends a bit beyond him as a fighter.

anyway, the lad lost fair and square tonight. It will be a real test of character for him but let's not write him of just yet shall we?

Lance wrote:im surprised that people are still trying to defend price. hes fought poor opposition and got knocked out in 2 first time he stepped up a level. people are getting as bad as Az! argueing with posters instead of actually argueing what they believe

Well put. People were arguing that Price was better than the Klitschkos and would knock them out. People seemed to overestimate Price and argued he was better than what he actually was without looking at the facts such as level of opposition he has faced.

Happytravelling wrote:

azania wrote:

DAVE667 wrote:

azania wrote:Wow. Now that surprised me. Not even a hard punch. It seems I over-estimated his chin. Its weaker than I gave him credit for.

Sure is...especially as he got clipped round the back of the head.

Sadly we still don't really know if Price is chinny as he wasn't actually hit on the chin...cold comfort for him at this point though

Oh come on. Khan got shelacked by a punch to the neck and people call him chinny.

Let me rephrase it then. Price lack adequate punch resistance. GB level or perhaps Euro level at the very best. He's been fighting planks all his pro career. Reminds me of the line in Enter the Dragon "boards don't hit back".

A fat 41 year old destroyed him. What a shame

You're comparing the punch power of LWW to a HW? Come on Az..... It was a strange KO but I've seen stranger. The omens aren't great but I don't think that is evidence to conclusively prove he is "chinny"... especially at HW.

Lets not forget, Manny was KO'd by Terracampo in his, what, 10th fight. Is he chinny?

Price is no Manny. Besides it was a body punch.

Totally shocked. Price aint no wlad, his career is in the toliet. He needs to learn the winky wright style of defense to get to the top after this. Poor Price...

hogey wrote:Getting knocked out happens in the Heavies doesnt always mean they are chinny, fighters better than Price have been sparked and come back and had long and successful careers.

He is chinny. Decked by a very green 18 year old Fury and sent to queer strete by the italian cop wearing pillows. All spells chinny or severely lacking punch resistance. I hope he continues his career. He's fun to watch. KO or get KO'd. He should leave the mental midget and sign up with Hennesey or Hearn. That way the general public will see him more often.

hogey wrote:Getting knocked out happens in the Heavies doesnt always mean they are chinny, fighters better than Price have been sparked and come back and had long and successful careers.

Including the one of the P4P best HW's... Wlad.

It seemed a soft KO but who know's. I've seen some "granite chinned" fighters get KO'd by soft punches. Manny was KO'd clean in his 10th fight or so... and many more.

Time will tell how significant this is. As people have already pointed out. Apart from a standing count in his amateur career there really isn't a lot of other evidence in his career Price is "chinny". We'll see.

azania wrote:

hampo171 wrote:Didn't Willie Limond drop Khan only for him to get saved by a "long" count?

No long count there. You're making things up. ).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFCvETQnSU4

make up your own mind - to me the referee slows the count down after 6 then Khan gets up and goes back down at 10 so he should have been counted out

Gee wrote:

A fat 41 year old destroyed him

An ever fatter by a distance fatty Big Mac murdered Fury as well.

And he's not even got above domestic level.

A Fury who was only about half a dozen fights in to his paid career, hardly a fair comparison given that Price's team were talking about a world title fight within his next five outings. Fury won a dubious decision, Price has just been stopped. No point trying to detract from that by dragging up an unconvincing Fury performance from nearly four years ago.

Anyway, this is an absolute shocker for Price and you have to wonder how it'll effect him mentally. While I'm clearly nowhere near the oracle levels of Az (well played by the way, old bean!), I have said in the past that I'm not as convinced of Price's unquestioned and undoubted superiority over Fury as others have been and hopefully this will serve as a reminder that there's still a way to go before the big Liverpudlian can target the world titles.

My main concern is Price's mindset. If he's not exactly blessed in the whiskers department, then ok, it's less than ideal but he can adapt his style to help remedy this (Wladimir being the stunningly obvious example of today's crop). But he's been such an on-top fighter, standing everyone on their heads up until now, that you'd have to worry for his confidence after this, particularly as there have been whispers that, much like Bruno, he's something of a 'manufactured fighter' despite that impressive physique. Certainly can't write him off as he has the tools to make himself a very hard man to get to, but it's a wake up call and a half, I tell thee!

Good stoppage by the referee, by the way.

Big shock, but you can't write off a man for one defeat. If and when he comes back from this, we can see the measure of the man and the fighter

ONETWOFOREVER wrote:Fury beats Thompson that was a lucky shot lets be honest.

Price needs an instant makeover time to sign with Hearns.

What? You mean he didn't intend to throw and land the punch?

To me the punch that KO'd price was a set up punch for another. But Price being Price didn't have the chin to stand up.

azania wrote:

hogey wrote:Thompson would beat Fury as well, maybe Price should have took Fury's lead and fought Dwarves and Crusierweights that way he could have stayed unbeaten longer.

No he wouldn't. Fury wouldn't be so amateurish. He's improving and Thompson is not busy enough to do much. Plus it looks like Fury has more balls and a better chin. At least he got up and beat the guy who kd him. Price stayed down.

Price got up. The referee correctly waived it off.

no-mas wrote:

azania wrote:

hampo171 wrote:Didn't Willie Limond drop Khan only for him to get saved by a "long" count?

No long count there. You're making things up. ).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFCvETQnSU4

make up your own mind - to me the referee slows the count down after 6 then Khan gets up and goes back down at 10 so he should have been counted out

Not to me. The boxer listens to the ref and gets up. The ref counted normally imo.

6oldenbhoy wrote:

azania wrote:

hogey wrote:Thompson would beat Fury as well, maybe Price should have took Fury's lead and fought Dwarves and Crusierweights that way he could have stayed unbeaten longer.

No he wouldn't. Fury wouldn't be so amateurish. He's improving and Thompson is not busy enough to do much. Plus it looks like Fury has more balls and a better chin. At least he got up and beat the guy who kd him. Price stayed down.

Price got up. The referee correctly waived it off.

Ooops. I meant he couldn't get up and remain ficussed. For his safety, the ref did a great job. Lets give credit to him also. Great refeering.

wasnt a slow count, he just blatantly stopped. khan wasnt ready in time. was very harsh on limmond

azania wrote:

Happytravelling wrote:

azania wrote:

DAVE667 wrote:

azania wrote:Wow. Now that surprised me. Not even a hard punch. It seems I over-estimated his chin. Its weaker than I gave him credit for.

Sure is...especially as he got clipped round the back of the head.

Sadly we still don't really know if Price is chinny as he wasn't actually hit on the chin...cold comfort for him at this point though

Oh come on. Khan got shelacked by a punch to the neck and people call him chinny.

Let me rephrase it then. Price lack adequate punch resistance. GB level or perhaps Euro level at the very best. He's been fighting planks all his pro career. Reminds me of the line in Enter the Dragon "boards don't hit back".

A fat 41 year old destroyed him. What a shame

You're comparing the punch power of LWW to a HW? Come on Az..... It was a strange KO but I've seen stranger. The omens aren't great but I don't think that is evidence to conclusively prove he is "chinny"... especially at HW.

Lets not forget, Manny was KO'd by Terracampo in his, what, 10th fight. Is he chinny?

Price is no Manny. Besides it was a body punch.

And after only 10 fights people were saying Manny was no JIm Driscoll etc.... get a grip. YOu do talk some Love sacks at times. And Wlad was washed up after his first and weak KO....

It doesn't look great for Price but I am not so quick to relegate him to Prizefighter yet.

victorgarco wrote:

Lance wrote:im surprised that people are still trying to defend price. hes fought poor opposition and got knocked out in 2 first time he stepped up a level. people are getting as bad as Az! argueing with posters instead of actually argueing what they believe

Well put. People were arguing that Price was better than the Klitschkos and would knock them out. People seemed to overestimate Price and argued he was better than what he actually was without looking at the facts such as level of opposition he has faced.

You're obviously too young to remember the Klitchko brothers career. People wrote them off when they got KO'd and quit on their stools too.

azania wrote:

no-mas wrote:

azania wrote:

hampo171 wrote:Didn't Willie Limond drop Khan only for him to get saved by a "long" count?

No long count there. You're making things up. ).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFCvETQnSU4

make up your own mind - to me the referee slows the count down after 6 then Khan gets up and goes back down at 10 so he should have been counted out

Not to me. The boxer listens to the ref and gets up. The ref counted normally imo.

and then drops back down to his knee at 9 and stays there at 10. That is a stoppage, rules are rules, not on your feet at 10, your out. For anyone wanting to watch the video its round 6 about 27 minutes into the video.

Happytravelling wrote:

azania wrote:

Happytravelling wrote:

azania wrote:

DAVE667 wrote:

azania wrote:Wow. Now that surprised me. Not even a hard punch. It seems I over-estimated his chin. Its weaker than I gave him credit for.

Sure is...especially as he got clipped round the back of the head.

Sadly we still don't really know if Price is chinny as he wasn't actually hit on the chin...cold comfort for him at this point though

Oh come on. Khan got shelacked by a punch to the neck and people call him chinny.

Let me rephrase it then. Price lack adequate punch resistance. GB level or perhaps Euro level at the very best. He's been fighting planks all his pro career. Reminds me of the line in Enter the Dragon "boards don't hit back".

A fat 41 year old destroyed him. What a shame

You're comparing the punch power of LWW to a HW? Come on Az..... It was a strange KO but I've seen stranger. The omens aren't great but I don't think that is evidence to conclusively prove he is "chinny"... especially at HW.

Lets not forget, Manny was KO'd by Terracampo in his, what, 10th fight. Is he chinny?

Price is no Manny. Besides it was a body punch.

And after only 10 fights people were saying Manny was no JIm Driscoll etc.... get a grip. YOu do talk some Love sacks at times. And Wlad was washed up after his first and weak KO....

It doesn't look great for Price but I am not so quick to relegate him to Prizefighter yet.

Over-hyped and chinny. He will never get above Euro level. I've said so for ages.

Ring Fury.. We need another podcast. Buncey is a grade A Pratt, trying to spin this as if its a good career move. W....T.....F....!!!!

Happytravelling wrote:

victorgarco wrote:

Lance wrote:im surprised that people are still trying to defend price. hes fought poor opposition and got knocked out in 2 first time he stepped up a level. people are getting as bad as Az! argueing with posters instead of actually argueing what they believe

Well put. People were arguing that Price was better than the Klitschkos and would knock them out. People seemed to overestimate Price and argued he was better than what he actually was without looking at the facts such as level of opposition he has faced.

You're obviously too young to remember the Klitchko brothers career. People wrote them off when they got KO'd and quit on their stools too.

Only Wlad got knocked out. Vitali lost to the best in the world when the match was stopped on cuts. Price is not over yet by a long shot, but he ain't a Klitchshko either

Happytravelling wrote:

victorgarco wrote:

Lance wrote:im surprised that people are still trying to defend price. hes fought poor opposition and got knocked out in 2 first time he stepped up a level. people are getting as bad as Az! argueing with posters instead of actually argueing what they believe

Well put. People were arguing that Price was better than the Klitschkos and would knock them out. People seemed to overestimate Price and argued he was better than what he actually was without looking at the facts such as level of opposition he has faced.

You're obviously too young to remember the Klitchko brothers career. People wrote them off when they got KO'd and quit on their stools too.

You cannot compare Klitschko to Price. The Klitschkos were world champions when they suffered defeats.

no-mas wrote:

azania wrote:

no-mas wrote:

azania wrote:

hampo171 wrote:Didn't Willie Limond drop Khan only for him to get saved by a "long" count?

No long count there. You're making things up. ).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFCvETQnSU4

make up your own mind - to me the referee slows the count down after 6 then Khan gets up and goes back down at 10 so he should have been counted out

Not to me. The boxer listens to the ref and gets up. The ref counted normally imo.

and then drops back down to his knee at 9 and stays there at 10. That is a stoppage, rules are rules, not on your feet at 10, your out. For anyone wanting to watch the video its round 6 about 27 minutes into the video.

He got up immediately, look at his corner and dropped to a knee getting up immediately talking to the ref saying it was a ush. No long count there.

Price was all over the shop and was rightly stopped. No comparison.

There will be a rematch clause in the contract. Get them back in the ring as soon as possible. I thought Price was too reckless tonight, earlier in the second he had Thompson on the ropes but was too busy trying to force the stoppage to think about his defence. Thompson was happy to absorb the shots then counter with a nice left hook.

Box more conservatively and if he uses his natural size and reach advantages he will more than likely win the rematch.

Be quiet Az you clown. Yes, Price got beaten, rather sick of you saying "Italian cop wearing pillows" - if its that easy why aren't we hearing about your glittering amateur career? The "Italian cop" is a celebrated amateur champion, no shame there.

People with your mindset are whats wrong with the sport. You're defending your hero Khan yet ripping into Price. I've said it a few times that you're just on the wind up, and its clear you are here. I've defended Price and attacked Fury in the past and let me be the first to say that loss was an embarrassment - but he'll come back, this is heavyweight boxing, one punch knockouts happen frequently. People who aren't "chinny" (I hate that term, bandied about by people who have no balls to box themselves) have gone down from weaker shots - it was as someone mentioned, just a shot that rendered Price useless.

Thompson was a very good boxer, I suspected him coming in fat meant he was looking for durability and would be looking for that one knockout blow. Didn't expect him to get it, and especially so early, but thats boxing. Price needs to switch to Hearns, get some more domestic/eu level competition and then step to world as this was too early.

See, objectivity in the face of criticism. All you know is how to tear into fighters you dislike Az and I find it tiring.

Wladimir was no world champion when he was stopped by Purrity and held the very lightly regarded WBO title when stopped by Sanders.

Price was stopped more than once as an amateur.

I hope he recovers, he's looked good going forward as a pro, but though its a surprise it happened today, its not a surprise its happened.

bhb001 wrote:

Happytravelling wrote:

victorgarco wrote:

Lance wrote:im surprised that people are still trying to defend price. hes fought poor opposition and got knocked out in 2 first time he stepped up a level. people are getting as bad as Az! argueing with posters instead of actually argueing what they believe

Well put. People were arguing that Price was better than the Klitschkos and would knock them out. People seemed to overestimate Price and argued he was better than what he actually was without looking at the facts such as level of opposition he has faced.

You're obviously too young to remember the Klitchko brothers career. People wrote them off when they got KO'd and quit on their stools too.

Only Wlad got knocked out. Vitali lost to the best in the world when the match was stopped on cuts. Price is not over yet by a long shot, but he ain't a Klitchshko either

Vitali quit on his stool to Chris Byrd!!!! You are talking with hindsight... which is my point!!! Price isn't over. He has many of the attibutes of Wlad. But he is still early in his career. Time will tell if he makes it.

I remember the boo boys saying Wlad was over when Purity KO'd him and that Vitali was a Cat because he quit on his stall. ... but I can remember them saying Errol Christie didn't have it etc. as well.. I'm just not so quick to wade in with predictions. Especially when it comes to HWs.