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— Team Sauerland (@TeamSauerland) January 25, 2014

By Scott Gilfoid: Earlier today British heavyweight David Price (16-2, 14 KO’s) defeated 5’11” Istvan Ruzsinszky (12-10-1, 8 KO’s) by a 1st round TKO at the Hanns-Martin-Schleyer Halle, Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Price dropped Ruzsinszky with a right hand to the head in the 1st round.

Ruzsinszky got back to his feet instantly, but the referee halted the fight at 2:00. The stoppage appeared to be way too premature for my tastes because Ruzsinszky still looked okay and ready to continue fighting. It was a very strange stopp on the referee’s part because Ruzsinszky looked fresh and totally unhurt.

I hope that we’re not going to be seeing a lot of stoppages in Price’s future fights in Germany, because it’s not going to do him any favors if he’s getting stoppage wins where the other guy is perfectly fine. Sooner or later, price will need to fight someone that won’t go down and then we could see Price in for a world of hurt.

After the fight Price said “I can only beat who’s in front of me. I hope to fight a lot and climb the rankings, and fight for a world title sometime next year.”

Price looked really stiff and slow, lacking power and snap on his jab. He’s still not throwing his jab with any conviction at all. Price wasn’t even able to keep the light hitting Ruzsinszky off of him, as he was able to back Price up to the ropes a number of times and throw shots. Yesh, the punches were thrown with glacial speed and were blocked by Price, but just picture what would happen to Price if he were fighting a 1st tier heavyweight instead of this 3rd tier guy that no one has ever heard of.

Besides the lack of speed and snap on Price’s jab, he was standing way too close when he was throwing his jab. I finally concluded that Price doesn’t have the ability to lean forward when throwing a jab the way that Wladimir Klitschko does, so he’s not going to be able to ever throw a jab from the distance. Price’s arms also appear short for a fighter his height, and that seems to have prevented him from being able to land from far outside the way he should have been doing in the fight.

Since Price’s arm length isn’t going to increase in the future, I’d suggest that his training team work like mad on improving the speed, power and snap on his jabs because he’s never going to be able to keep off a talented heavyweight with power. For example, if that had been Deontay Wilder in the ring with Deontay tonight instead of Ruzsinszky then it would have been bad for Price because Deontay would have had nothing to keep him off of Price. Deontay wouldn’t be slowed down by the pawing jab from Price for an instant.