By Scott Gilfoid: British heavyweight champion David Price (14-0, 12 KO’s) figures that he’s about one to one and half years away from finally stepping it up and fighting one of the Klitschko brothers. Price figures that he’ll have learned enough in that time to be ready to fight one of the Ukrainian Klitschko brothers.

Price said to the BBC Sport “I should be ready to fight the Klitschkos in 12 to 18 months.”

What Price fails to say is that by then 41-year-old WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko will have retired from boxing, so he won’t be around for Price to even fight. Additionally, Wladimir Klitschko will be 37, almost 38, and probably starting to show signs of age in his game. That’s not exactly sporting to wait Wladimir and Vitali out until they’re either retired or too old to fight.

Price can’t fall back on the excuse that he’s too young to fight the Klitschkos now because he’s 29-years-old and will be turning 30 in July. If that’s not old enough to fight the Klitschkos then I don’t know what to think. Since when does a heavyweight have to wait until he’s nearly 31 to fight for a world title for the first time? It just looks like Price is trying to wait out the Klitschkos until they’re too old or retired for him to have to fight.

Price has been focusing on fighting older fighters recently having beaten 40-year-old Audley Harrison in his last fight on October 13th of this month. Price is now fighting an even older fighter in 45-year-old Matt Skelton (28-6, 23 KO’s) on November 30th next month at the Aintree Equestrian Centre, Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom.

Price points out that this is an appropriate fight for him because of the things that Skelton has accomplished during his career with him having won British and Commonwealth heavyweight titles in the distant past. However, that was a long time ago and it’s kind of irrelevant what straps that Skelton won. It’s like Price building up Evander Holyfield as a opponent by pointing out his past accomplishments to try and justify the mismatch.