By Scott Gilfoid: Last night heavyweight David Price (15-2, 13 KO’s) revealed that he’ll be taking a tune-up bout against a still to be determined opponent to get him sharpened up to face EBU heavyweight champion Dereck Chisora (18-4, 12 KO’s) in early 2014. Price has been smacked around in losing his last two fights against 42-year-old American Tony Thompson, and he wants to end his losing streak before he faces Chisora in the ring.
Price told Sky “I think I’ll take a tune-up first before Chisora.”
Chisora has a fight this month on November 30th against Italian Matteo Modugno (14-0, 8 KO’s) at the Copper Box Arena, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Hackney Wick, London, United Kingdom. This is supposed to be a fight that Chisora should win, but there are no guarantees with Chisora because doesn’t have that kind of talent to just show up and get a certain victory.
Chisora is too short, too easy to hit, and too slow to be a sure thing even against less than dangerous opposition. If you need proof, just watch how easily Tyson Fury handled Chisora two years ago in beating him by a ridiculously easy 12 round unanimous decision. This was during a rough period for Chisora with him finding out what his ceiling is in terms of his potential in loses to Robert Helenius, Fury, David Haye and Vitali Klitschko. Since those defeats, Chisora has been backed off from stiff opposition and put back in with C level opposition and he’s been able to thrive with this kind of competition.
The 6’8″ Price should easily beat Chisora as long as he keeps Chisora on the outside, uses his jab, leans backwards to avoid Chisora’s home run punches, and clinches him each time he gets in close. Price has the built in size and power to stop Chisora if he opens up with his full artillery in the early going because we’ve already seen that Chisora can be hurt when he’s hit hard in his fights against Helenius, Fury and David Haye. Chisora likes to use head movement to make his opponents miss, but he’s still pretty easy to hit to the head because he comes forward with head directly in front of him begging to be hit.
Price just needs to keep his guard height to block Chisora’s winging shots that tend to arm around the side of the head. You can bet that Chisora will be loading up with every shot he throws against Price, so this should give Price a good chance of knocking Chisora out with a straight right to the head as he’s in the middle of throwing one of his sloppy left or right hooks.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Chisora loses to the 6’6 1/2″ Matteo Modugno, because this guy will have a huge height and reach advantage over Chisora, and he has the blueprint to study in how to beat Chisora from his losses to Vitali, Helenius and Fury. There’s a lot for Modugno to study to get ready for this fight and I can see him coming into the bout with the perfect plan to clown Chisora. As long as Modugno’s chin holds out, he has a good chance of winning then fight, unless he gets robbed. That’s a possibility too.
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