David Price’s manager has doubts Fury will take the fight with Price

By Boxing News - 01/23/2012 - Comments

Image: David Price's manager has doubts Fury will take the fight with PriceBy Sean McDaniel: Frank Maloney, manager for unbeaten heavyweight prospect David Price (12-0, 10 KO’s), questions whether British heavyweight champion Tyson Fury (17-0, 12 KO’s) will choose to defend his title against new mandatory challenger Price after Fury sees Price’s 1st round TKO destruction of John McDermott last Saturday night in Liverpool.

Maloney thinks Fury might be willing to take the fight, but he believes his management will want to keep Fury away from the hard-hitting 6’8” former 2008 Olympic bronze medalist Price.

Maloney told The Times “He’ll [Fury] convince himself. Fury will want to fight to save face because he knows fighting man reputation will go, which is why he talks. I think his management will want to go in a different route.”

What Maloney says about Fury’s management likely to go in a different route is probably going to be true. Fury is ranked high in the world rankings and is poised to get a big money title shot against one of the Klitshkos in 2012 or 2013.

If Fury takes the risky bout against Price, he could lose out on ever facing the Klischko brothers if Price were to knock him out. It will take too long to come back from a knockout defeat and Vitali will probably retired by the time Fury get a one or two years of solid wins behind him to redeem himself.

At this point you can’t accurately predict what the Klitschkos will do because they’ve been selecting weak opposition lately, so there’s still a possibility that Fury can get a fight with one of the Klitschkos even if he gets beat by Price. Vitali is facing Dereck Chisora, who Fury already beat last year by a lopsided 12 round decision.

Chisora has lost two out of his last three fights, including his last fight and yet he’s still being handed a title shot against Vitali. Wladimir Klitschko is facing 39-year-old Jean Marc Mormeck, who has fought only three times at heavyweight and looked incredibly poor in all three fights.



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