Daniel Anthony "Danny" Price (born 15 September 1985) is a British retired professional boxer, best known for winning the national amateur title in 2006 at 201 lbs/91 kg.
Career
Amateur
The 1.98m/6'6 tall Price fights for Scarborough club Westway ABC. He is not related to
David Price.
Price won Bronze at the 2004 junior world championships as a
light heavyweight
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Boxing Professional
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after losing to
Ismaikel Perez by RSCO in the semis.
He defeated
David Dolan
David Dolan (born 7 October 1979) is an English professional boxer who has competed at both heavyweight and cruiserweight. As an amateur he won a gold medal at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in the super heavyweight division.
Boxing car ...
at heavyweight at the Multi-Nations Tournament 2005 26:11.
He has had problems with the draw in international events so far. At the
2006 Commonwealth Games
The 2006 Commonwealth Games, officially the XVIII Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Melbourne 2006 (Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm 2006'' or ''Naarm 2006''), was an international multi-sport event for members of the Commonwealth held ...
in
Melbourne
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,
Australia
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he controversially lost 12:16 his very first bout to local hero and the eventual winner
Bradley Michael Pitt.
In December 2007 he became national champion vs. hard-hitting defending champ
Tony Bellew
Anthony Lewis Bellew (born 30 November 1982) is an English former professional boxer who competed from 2007 to 2018, and has since worked as a boxing analyst and commentator. He held the WBC cruiserweight title from 2016 to 2017, and challeng ...
8:6.
As of 2006, his record was 41 wins in 49 fights.
At the
2007 World Amateur Boxing Championships
The 2007 AIBA World Boxing Championships were held in Chicago, United States from October 23, 2007 to November 3, 2007. It was held at the UIC Pavilion. It was the biggest World Championships in AIBA history.
The competition is under the super ...
he was again eliminated in the first round by the eventual winner
Clemente Russo
Clemente Russo (born 27 July 1982) is an Italian amateur boxer, best known for winning gold at the 2007 and 2013 World Amateur Boxing Championships at heavyweight (201 lbs limit). He currently boxes for the Italia Thunder team in the Worl ...
.
He won a couple of other tournaments such as the Finnish Tammer Tournament and a tournament in China.
He also bested American Quantis Graves at the UK-US duals 21:1.
At the first Olympic qualifier he lost to Ukrainian
Oleksandr Usyk
Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Usyk ( uk, Олекса́ндр Олекса́ндрович У́сик; born 17 January 1987) is a Ukrainian professional boxer. He has held multiple world championships in two weight classes, including the unified WB ...
, at the second to Jozsef Darmos and didn't qualify.
Professional
He turned pro at
Cruiserweight in 2011.
His cruiserweight career started successfully, beating experienced Hastings Rasani in one of his initial bouts.
Professional boxing record
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Early childhood and education
Matovu was born on 19 June 1949 in Kawempe Division, Kampala District to ...
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References
External links
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BioABA
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Living people
English male boxers
1985 births
Heavyweight boxers
Sportspeople from Scarborough, North Yorkshire
Boxers at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
England Boxing champions
Commonwealth Games competitors for England