By John Hargate

British Heavyweight champion David Price covered David Haye vs. Dereck Chisora for BoxNation TV on Saturday then talked to BoxingScene after the fight about Chisora, Tyson Fury and his promoter Frank Maloney losing his T.V. deal with Sky.

 

David agreed that a meeting between himself and Chisora down the road could be exciting.

“Of course it would,” said the likeable Scouse to BoxingScene.com. “Obviously Dereck is going to take a little bit of time out, and I’m going to have to keep active as well, so it will probably happen next year sometime if I’m still British champion – or maybe even for something else. But yeah, it’d be a fight I’d be interested in. It’d be a tough test for me because he’s a really tough fighter. He’s a strong, come forwards type fighter. He’s fit, but he proved tonight he can be hurt – although he was hurt by an exceptional puncher in David Haye.”

 

I asked David if he felt he hit as hard as Haye? “Pound for pound, probably not, but across the board, I think I could hit harder,” he said. “David Haye is fifteen stone and I’m two and a half stone heavier, so I could probably hit harder. I don’t know. I have a lot of confidence in my power.”

 

David turned his attention back towards a fight with Chisora. “I like Dereck, and there’s a lot of mutual respect between us, but if it was a big fight that people were interested in then, yeah, I’d take it. I’d get a lot of credibility by beating him.”

 

Chisora has shown he’s an improving fighter. Price concurred. “If he wasn’t getting better, there’d be something wrong. The fights he’s having are the fights that’d improve any fighter. He’s had three good twelve rounds fights in the last 12 months against good lads. The Helenius and Klitschko fights, he’d learn more there in those fights in all the previous fights since he turned pro. He’ll benefit from that experience and he’s improving with it as you can see. But tonight he was in with a fighter who was a level above him, and I had that in my head as soon as the fight was announced.”

 

No conversation with David Price is complete without some reference to Tyson Fury. I asked David if he thought he’d ever get the big traveller in the ring with him?

 “I think there’s a chance it could happen somewhere down the line,” he smiled ruefully. “But it depends on us both staying undefeated. If that’s the case then maybe in 12 months it could happen. I think the Tyson Fury [fight] would be a fight of this magnitude [meaning Haye vs. Chisora]. It would be somewhere in an outdoor arena, because everyone wants to see the fight happen, and it’s building and building."

 

He continued: "Hopefully we can both keep our word and it’ll happen. I’d have it tomorrow if I could. People want to see it already, and I want to fight good fighters. Tyson is a good fighter. I think he’s overrated, but still, he’s a good fighter with a big name, and they’re the kind of people I want to be fighting.”

 

Frank Maloney has lost his T.V. deal with Sky. I wondered what that might mean for David?

“He’s talking to a few different broadcasters at the minute about going over to them,” Price explained. “I’m just waiting to see what he comes up with. It’s disappointing that Sky have not renewed his contract, but we move on and get on with things. I just need to concentrate on what I’m doing in the ring. Perform in the ring, and as long as I keep doing that I think I’ll be alright.”

 

Was Price worried about dropping off the radar? “Exposure is important, I’ll give you that,” he acknowledged. “It’s something that I’m going to have to consider. If I can’t get good exposure, I’m going to have to compensate for it in other types of media outlets. I want people to see my fights, but people can eventually see your fights on Youtube no matter what channel you fight on. Saying that, you need the fight to be on live, and Sky was an excellent platform for that. Disappointed is an understatement to be honest, but I’m sure Frank will come up with something adequate.”