By Scott Gilfoid: Unbeaten British heavyweight champion David Price (13-0, 11 KO’s) has a fight coming up on October 13th against 40-year-old Audley Harrison (28-5, 21 KO’s) in what appears to be a mismatch that has 1st round knockout written all over it at the Echo Arena in Liverpool, England.

With that mismatch not even done, the 29-year-old Price is reportedly considering his next bout after that against possibly 45-year-old Matt Skelton (27-6, 22 KO’s) or 40-year-old Michael Grant 48-4, 36 KO’s). It’s hard to get excited about seeing Price fed guys in the twilight of their careers that likely have only a slight chance of winning the fight if they can land a home run punch against Price’s questionable chin. The Harrison mismatch is bad enough, but then to follow that up against another 40+ year old fighter seems a little off putting. I mean, if Price were a younger fighter like Deontay Wilder with less amateur experience then one could understand him dining on 40-year-olds for several years. But Price is 29-years-old and he can’t afford to waste time fighting lesser heavyweights if he doesn’t want to waste valuable time in his career.

I’m sure Price’s fans will disagree with this and they probably feel that his best years will be in his mid-30s. I don’t know that I agree with that. It’s different for every heavyweight. Some heavyweights start experiencing injury problems in their 30s and it only gets worse as they age.

By 29-30, you usually like to see a heavyweight fighting for a title for the first time instead of wasting time fighting 40-year-olds one after another. Who in their right mind sees Price gaining anything from the Harrison fight? The fight will probably last one round with Price knocking Harrison out the first time he makes contact with him and he won’t learn a thing. But then to go from there to a fight against 45-year-old Skelton or 40-year-old Grant, that just seems like a waste of time if you ask me.

Skelton, by the fight, is fighting on the undercard of Price’s mismatch with Harrison on October 13th. That right there tells me that Skelton will likely be the one to get the Price fight. I don’t think for a second that the 6’7″ Grant will get the fight, because while he is way, way up there in age, he can still land with big power when he does throw punches. Grant’s problem is that he doesn’t throw enough of them and he’d have problems against Price if he didn’t come out aggressive. But I see Grant as someone that Price’s team won’t want to fight because if Grant does connect with one of his big shots, I see Price folding like a cheap suit and going down for the 10 count. They’re probably not going to want to chance Price against someone that has a chance, such as it is, to win the fight. Price has already been shown to have a questionable chin in the amateur ranks and if you put him in with someone with decent power at the pro level he could be in big, big trouble if Grant lands even one decent shot on that chin. If that happens then Price would be set back in his dreams of being a heavyweight contender some day. I’m not even talking about a champion, because I don’t see Price as someone that can ever win an actual world title. I’m talking about him just trying to make it to the contender status some day.