clock menu more-arrow no yes mobile

Filed under:

Open Thread: Price vs Dallas, Trout vs Lopez, ShoBox

David Price takes on fellow UK heavyweight prospect Tom Dallas today. (Photo by Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images)
David Price takes on fellow UK heavyweight prospect Tom Dallas today. (Photo by Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images)
Getty Images

I'm going to be out for the rest of the day, so here's an open thread to talk some fights. Sky has a 5pm show with 6'9" heavyweight David Price (10-0, 8 KO) taking on fellow UK giant heavyweight prospect Tom Dallas (15-0, 11 KO), who stands a mere 6'6". Here's part of Dave Oakes' preview:

Price, 10-0 (KO 8), has had everything stacked in his favour thus far in his pro career, some of his opponents have been laughable. Osborne Machimana in particular left ringsiders exasperated - he is up there with the worst boxers I’ve seen in a British ring. Price has been getting some top class sparring over the past two years; hopefully he will have learned more from that than he has from his fights.

Dallas, 15-0 (KO 11), represents a solid step-up in class - he’ll be the first boxer Price has fought with a winning record and he carries reasonable punch power. He’s not the most technically gifted boxer, being too upright, robotic and flat-footed - as was witnessed in his struggle against Zack Page last time out - but what he has got is pride, toughness and ambition.

There's also another ShoBox double-header tonight, and I think the Austin Trout vs David Lopez fight is being televised somewhere or other in Mexico, but I'm not certain. Enjoy your Saturday.

Sign up for the newsletter Sign up for the Bad Left Hook Daily Roundup newsletter!

A daily roundup of all your global boxing news from Bad Left Hook