David Price (boxer)

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Medal record
Commonwealth Games
Gold	2006 Melbourne	Super Heavyweight

David Price (b.July 6, 1983) is a British amateur boxer from Liverpool best known to win the Commonwealth title at superheavyweight in 2006.

[edit] Career

The six foot seven/eight (depending on source; 2,05 Meters) Price (Salisbury ABC, Liverpool) beat Travis Kauffman twice by RSCO at the 2003 USA vs. England Dual. Earlier in the year he became the youngest ever A.B.A champion at his weight category (which was introduced in 1984). He was 19 years old and 272 days. In August of the year he won the Commonwealth Confederations tournament in Kuala Lumpur, defeating Muzzafar Iqbal (Pakistan) 21-9, and Justin Whitehead (Australia) 22-6.

At the Finnish Tammer Tournament 2004 he was dominated an KOd by Canadian puncher Bermane Stiverne. He then defeated Gregory Corbin on points in the England-U.S.A dual in Liverpool.

He lost to Roberto Cammarelle in the quarter-finals of the European Championships in Bulgaria in 2004, a defeat that prevented him from going to the Athens Olympics that year.

He won his second A.B.A Title in March 2005, defeating Damien Campbell of Repton in the final. He went on to win the 4 nations championships (England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales) 2 weeks later, a win which enabled him to compete in the inaugral 4 Nations v Cuba match, in which he was his side's sole victor, defeating Lisovan Hernandez.

He participated at the 2005 World Amateur Boxing Championships‎ but lost on points to Robert Helenius 25-22.

He won the 2006 Commonwealth Games at Melbourne (see link), at the Strandya Cup in Bulgaria he was outgunned by Ukrainian Vyacheslav Glazkov, though. He ended the year on a high note defeating highly touted teenage compatriot Tyson Fury 22:8. Then going on to win his 3rd A.B.A title, defeating Tom Dallas 27-4.

At the Commonwealth Championships 2007 he stopped Australian Daniel Beahan in the final.

At the 2007 World Amateur Boxing Championships‎ he defeated three opponents including Marko Tomasovic (CRO) 23:11, Frenchman Mohamed Samoudi whom he stopped, Primislav Dimovski (Macedonia) 20:4 but a hand injury kept him from showing for his fight against Roberto Cammarelle.

GB head coach Terry Edwards said: "David has boxed particularly well in these World Championships and it is therefore a big disappointment that he was unable to box for automatic Olympic qualification here in Chicago, a right he had fought for."

At the first qualifier he lost controversially to David Arshba, at the second Olympic qualifier he beat Magomed Abdusalamov and Romanian World junior champion Cristian Ciocan 15:6 to make it to Beijing.