By Scott Gilfoid: A former 2008 Olympic heavyweight bronze medalist for Great Britain and now on the verge of turning 30, British heavyweight champion David Price (14-0, 12 KO’s) is scheduled to fight 45-year-old Matt Skelton (28-6, 23 KO’s) on November 30th at the Aintree Equestrian Centre, in Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom. The question here is why is a fighter as old as the 6’8″ Price still fighting guys like Skelton?

I mean, shouldn’t Price have started moving up to face better opposition than this? He’s not like Deontay Wilder, who is younger than him and with much less amateur experience. Wilder has an excuse for fighting weak opposition, but Price doesn’t. He had a long amateur career and he’s older than Wilder by close to three years.

In Price’s last fight he fought 40-year-old Audley Harrison in a fight that really gave Price nothing. He went and knocked Harrison out in the 1st round, and that was something that was predicated by a lot of boxing fans. They knew that Harrison would be lucky to make it out of the 1st round, and yet Price took the fight.

These aren’t fights where he can get anything out of them because the good heavyweights aren’t going to just stand there frozen the way that Harrison was. The good heavyweights can take a punch, and return fire. Price already has serious questions about his chin. What’s going to happen when he faces someone that throws punches back at him? If all Price is fighting are old guys like Harrison and Skelton then how can he expect to improve?

Price should have been fighting contenders a long time ago, and yet here he is still fighting guys like Skelton. It’s pretty sad if you ask me.

There’s rumors that Price will look to fight Richard Towers after this fight. Towers is another domestic level fighters. That’ll take Price close to his 30th birthday and there’s no telling how many more times he’ll chose to defend his British strap.