Ivan Hope Price (born 6 March 2000), better known as Hopey Price, is a British
professional boxer. As an
amateur
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, he won silver medals at the 2017 European Youth Championships and
2018 Youth World Championships, and gold at the
2018 European Youth Championships and
2018 Youth Olympics
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; becoming the first boxer from Great Britain to win gold at a Youth Olympic Games.
Professional career
In October 2019, it was announced Price had signed a promotional contract with
Eddie Hearn's
Matchroom Boxing and would make his professional debut the following month. The fight took place on 2 November 2019 at the
Manchester Arena,
Manchester, with Price scoring a four-round
points decision
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victory over Joel Sanchez on the undercard of
Katie Taylor's world title challenge against
Christina Linardatou
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. Price was back in action one month later to defeat Swedi Mohamed via third-round
technical knockout (TKO) on 7 December at the Diriyah Arena in
Diriyah, Saudi Arabia.
Hopey continued his run of wins with a points victory over Claudio Grande in a six-round fight on 14 August 2021 and then with a 2nd round stoppage of Zahid Hussain on 4 September 2021.
Professional boxing record
References
English male boxers
2000 births
Living people
Super-bantamweight boxers
Boxers at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics
Sportspeople from Leeds
Youth Olympic gold medalists for Great Britain
Youth and Junior World Boxing Championships medalists
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