By Scott Gilfoid: In an amusing bit of boxing news, British heavyweight champion David Price (14-0, 12 KO’s) suddenly sees himself as being perceived in a different light now that he’s wiped out the 40-year-old Audley Harrison by a one round knockout last Saturday night. Price, 29, thinks that the Klitschko brothers won’t want to fight him now because of how dangerous he looked in blowing out the former 2000 Olympic gold medalist Harrison.

Price said to Sky Sports News “I don’t know how realistic it is at this stage [to fight the Klitschkos] as I am unlikely to get picked out as a voluntary defense because I am dangerous opponent and a big man as well. I am bigger than the pair of them.”

Yeah, big and slow as heck. That’s laughable that Price thinks that the Klitschkos won’t want to fight him. The Klitschkos are practically begging the top fighters to face them just so that they can get an interesting fight for the boxing public. They would literally jump at the chance of fighting Price just so that they would have a guy their own size to beat up on inside of the normal short guys that don’t have a prayer. However, there’s one important factor that would get in the way of the Klitschkos voluntarily agreeing to fight Price, and that’s the fact that Price isn’t even ranked in the top 15 by any of the sanctioning bodies.

Being ranked in the top 15 is obviously a prerequisite to getting a fight with one of the Klitschkos. They’re not going to scoop Price up and rescue him from having to earn his way out of the 2nd tier voluntarily. I don’t think the sanctioning bodies would allow the Klitschkos to do this, because normally a fighter has to be ranked in the top 15 one of the divisions. If Price was ranked in the top 15 as a cruiserweight, then the Klitschkos could get away with fighting a non-top 15 heavyweight, but Price is obviously not a cruiserweight.

As such, he really doesn’t have anything to talk about until he is eventually ranked in the heavyweight division. Until then he needs to keep his yapper shut and focus on trying to fight some good opponents for a change. If Price really wants to fight the Klitschko brothers then he needs to stop fighting all these god awful opponents and start taking on some live bodies. That’s the best way for Price to get ranked high in the heavyweight division in a real hurry. But we’ve been seeing Price doing is fighting guys like Harrison, Sam Sexton, John McDermott, Tom Dallas, Raphael Butler and Osborne Machimana. That’s obviously not going to do the trick fighting weak opponents like this.

And Price isn’t getting any better at improving opposition because for his next fight Price will be fighting 45-year-old Matt Skelton on December 8th. That’s like a step down from Harrison. I wonder why Price’s promoter keeps matching him against exclusively weak opposition? Does he doubt Price’s ability to handle himself against quality opponents?