David Price to face Ondrej Pala on 3/29

By Boxing News - 03/03/2014 - Comments

price56(Photo Wende) By Scott Gilfoid: David Price’s German handlers are moving him up quite a big for his next fight by putting him in with Euro level slugger Ondrej Pala (33-4, 23 KO’s) for a fight on March 29th at the Veldrom, in Berlin German. Pala, 29, isn’t a top tier heavyweight or anything close to that, but he can punch a little, as we saw in his recent rabbit punch loss to Dereck Chisora last November.

Pala had Chisora staggered several times in the fight before getting taken out with two textbook rabbit punches to the back of the head in the 3rd round. The referee Jan Christensen didn’t say anything about Chisora’s rabbit shots, and so the win stood. However, Pala would have had a real chance of beating Chisora had the referee stopped the action, and given Pala a 5 minute recovery period after taking a point off from Chisora for hitting him in the back of the head.

The fragile-chinned Price can’t afford a loss against Pala, because if he can’t even beat this guy then Price needs to retire from the sport. Yeah, I guess Price could hang around and fight at the domestic level, but even just hanging around fighting British guys would be dangerous for Price. He’d have to face Anthony Joshua sooner or later, and I doubt Price can beat that guy. It’s not that Joshua is anything special, but he’d likely arm punch Price into submission unless Price could take him deep to where Joshua’s body building muscles where out.

Price has lost 2 out of his last 3 fights. His German handlers put him in with some unknown guy Istvan Rusinszky in his last fight in January, and Price was able to end his 2-fight losing streak by halting him in the 1st round. But it was pretty sad that they felt that it was necessary to put Price in with someone as poor as that in order to get him back to the winning track.

If Price can get to Pala’s chin early in the fight then I see him winning in 2-3 rounds. But Price can’t let Pala hang around for any length of time, because this guy can punch better than Tony Thompson. Pala definitely has a decent punch, and I could see Price flopping around on the canvas like a fish out of water if Pala connects with the kinds of shots he was nailing Chisora with.

Pala rebounded from his stoppage loss to Chisora by destroying the novice Roman Cheney (1-1) by a 1st round knockout last month. Sadly, a lot of Pala’s wins in his career have come against opposition with positively dreadful records. In Pala’s last two fights before the Chisora fight, he’d beaten opponents with an 0-5 and 6-3 record in back to back fights. It’s hard to understand that kind of match-making given that Pala is 29-years-old and has been fighting since 2005 as a pro. That’s an advanced pro, and there’s no way on earth that he should be still fighting opposition with completely horrible records. If that was Pala’s idea to fight those guys, then someone needs to sit him down and explain to him about the importance of fighting quality opposition in order to keep improving and to push his career ahead.



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