The changing face of heavyweight boxing arrived in a large box at the Salisbury ABC gym last month when Price received a delivery of his personalised boxing boots from sponsors Lonsdale.
Boxing’s marquee division is increasingly a land occupied by hulking masses and Price, with his muscular 6’8” frame and large shoe size,http://secure.signup-way.com/8407/21000/boxing_tv fits a successful prototype in the modern era.
His trainer Franny Smith fondly looks back on the thrilling time when a barrel chested aggressor from New York, going by the name of Mike Tyson, bullied other heavyweights and recalls the halcyon days of Muhammed Ali and Joe Frazier.
But the new breed excites Smith just as much and there can’t be a more enthusiastic admirer of the Klitschko brothers, Wladimir and Vitali, this side of what remains of the Berlin Wall.
Everything changed with the emergence of Lennox Lewis and nearly nine years since he ruled the world, Smith plots Price’s path through.http://secure.signup-way.com/8407/21000/boxing_tv
The Beijing Olympian is Liverpool’s most electrifying commodity and this weekend bids to become the city’s first ever British heavyweight champion.http://secure.signup-way.com/8407/21000/boxing_tv
Tankfully he is in safe and knowledgeable hands.
“I think Lewis was the changing of the guard in terms of heavyweight boxing,” he said.
“Heavyweight boxing was predominantly 15 or 16st, 6’3” men. When Lennox came along, and Riddick Bowe to some degree, it became the era of the 6’5” plus heavyweight.
“If you think back, a ‘giant’ called Primo Carnera was only 6’5” but they thought he was seven foot something. David is three-and-a-half inches taller than him. So when Lennox and Riddick came along they were the changing of a normal heavyweight into a jumbo heavyweight.http://secure.signup-way.com/8407/21000/boxing_tv
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Challngers : David Price vs Sam Sexton
Date : 19.5.2012
