Danny Price | |
Realname: | Daniel Anthony Price |
Weight: | |
Height: | 6 ft 6 in |
Birth Date: | 15 September 1985 |
Birth Place: | Scarborough, England |
Style: | Orthodox |
Total: | 9 |
Wins: | 9 |
Ko: | 3 |
Show-Medals: | yes |
Daniel Anthony "Danny" Price (born 15 September 1985) is an English former professional boxer, who competed from 2011 to 2013. He is a two-time ABA heavyweight champion as an amateur.
Born in Scarborough, Price boxed for Westway ABC. He won Bronze at the 2004 World Junior Championships as a light heavyweight, after losing to Ismaikel Perez by RSCO in the semi-finals.[1] He won gold as a heavyweight at the 2005 Multi-Nations Tournament, defeating David Dolan in the final 26:11.[2]
At the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia, Price controversially lost 12:16 in the first bout to eventual winner Bradley Pitt.[3] In December 2007, he won his first ABA heavyweight title after beating defending champion Tony Bellew 8:6.[4] As of 2006, his record was 41 wins in 49 fights.
At the 2007 World Amateur Boxing Championships, Price was eliminated in the first round by the eventual winner Clemente Russo.[5] He won gold at both the 2007 Tammer Tournament, beating Evgenyi Romanov,[6] and the 2008 Tammer Tournament, beating Ihab Almatbouli.[7] He also bested American Quantis Graves at the UK-US duals 21:1.
During qualification for the 2008 Summer Olympics, Price lost to Oleksandr Usyk in the 1st qualifier, before losing to Jozsef Darmos in the 2nd qualifier.[8] He won his second ABA heavyweight title on 14 May 2010, beating Emmanuel Izonritei in the final.[9]
Price turned professional in 2011, making his debut as a cuiserweight on 22 October, beating Michal Tomko via corner retirement in the first round. He had eight more fights, including wins over well-known journeymen Hastings Rasani and Moses Matovu.[10] His last professional match was on 11 May 2013, beating Michal Bilak via knockout in the third round.
| style="text-align:center;" colspan="8"|9 Wins (3 Knockouts), 0 Defeats, 0 Draws|- style="text-align:center; background:#e3e3e3;"| style="border-style:none none solid solid; "|Res.| style="border-style:none none solid solid; "|Record| style="border-style:none none solid solid; "|Opponent| style="border-style:none none solid solid; "|Type| style="border-style:none none solid solid; "|Rd., Time| style="border-style:none none solid solid; "|Date| style="border-style:none none solid solid; "|Location| style="border-style:none none solid solid; "|Notes|- align=center|Win||9–0||align=left| Michal Bilak||||||align=left| ||- align=center|Win||8–0||align=left| Tamas Bajzath||||||align=left| ||- align=center|Win||7–0||align=left| Jevgenijs Andrejevs ||| 6 |||align=left||align=left| |- align=center|Win||6–0||align=left| Hari Miles||| 6 |||align=left||align=left| |- align=center|Win||5–0||align=left| Moses Matovu||| 6 |||align=left||align=left| |- align=center|Win||4–0||align=left| John Anthony||| 4 |||align=left||align=left||- align=center|Win||3–0||align=left| Tayar Mehmed||| 4 |||align=left||align=left||- align=center|Win||2–0||align=left| Hastings Rasani||| 4 |||align=left||align=left||- align=center|Win||1–0||align=left| Michal Tomko||||||align=left||align=left|