Price looking for rematch.

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Unless he's offered big money, I can't see Thompson taking the rematch anytime soon. It would be good to see it because Price has come badly unstuck and now looks a long way from being a serious contender and there are questions that need to be answered.

Price needs a credible opponent in his next fight no matter what. The can't just throw him in with another journeyman.

I personally can't see any fighter who gets knocked senseless by a shot like that right hand getting anywhere near a world title. He should take a shot at a decent European fighter and then go after a massive pay day against Fury because that's about as much as I see Price getting out of his career.

Nonsense. Plenty of now all time greats have been laid out cold early in their career including the present champ.

Not from a shot like that they haven't.

It perforated his ear drum. But I suppose his inner ear is also made of glass. Fact of the matter is that area is probably responsible for just as many stoppages as shots to the chin.

It wasn't a hard shot and Thompson is not a puncher. Price's punch resistance was already questionable from his time in the amateurs and he's just been flattened in two rounds by a shot that probably wouldn't have even wobbled most heavyweights, let alone perforated their ear drum and had them all over the place.

Anyone who can't take a shot like that is not going to be winning world titles. Regardless of that, Price still fights like an amateur and looks like a robot in there. The Thompson fight was the first time Price has faced any kind of serious challenge and he failed it miserably.

It does not have to be brutally hard like a highlight reel shot to do the trick in that area especially when the guy weighed over 260. Cup your hand over your ear. That entire area can take the entire body out. As far as failing miserably that's a matter of opinion and not fact. As already stated many others including all time greats have been counted out and not simply waved off early in their career's regardless of how hard that punch is viewed. And again many of those kinds of shots dropped Wlad.

Look I'm not even a fan of the guy but I think many people including his own countrymen are being far to hard on him given all the circumstances. I'm guessing that many who write off the punch have never boxed without headgear and 1 pound gloves and I'm not pointing fingers at anyone because the same notion about the punch exists on every forum that I am aware of.

Philosophically this is why these freakin "0"'s are coveted so much is this bastardized interpretation of risk and reward world we live in. The moment you lose the thing and heaven forbid by any kind of stoppage regardless of the facts, you are thrown under the bus. David Price could just as easily become a better fighter because of this loss and go on to great success. Especially in this piss ant division. Armstrong lost 3 of his first 4 fights one of which put him right to sleep and several fights later to guy who was like 40 and 20. Point is this is not the end of the world by any means and in fact could be the measure of the man.