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Moore: Price would be right
- Updated: October 24, 2016
Jamie Moore gives his verdict on the speculation surrounding Anthony Joshua’s next opponent and looks back on Saturday’s eventful bill in Birmingham.
If not Wladimir Klitschko, then who should Anthony Joshua defend his IBF title against?
There are a few options. They are not as appetising and as tasty looking as the Wladimir Klitschko fight, for obvious reasons. I wouldn’t mind seeing the David Price fight to be honest.
It would be an interesting one, because of the rumours that Price knocked Anthony Joshua out in sparring. I know sparring is different from fighting, but nevertheless when you’ve been knocked out by someone, that has got to be playing on your mind a little bit. He probably feels like he’s got a little heads-up on Anthony Joshua and would fancy his chances.
I would like to see that fight and I wouldn’t be complaining if that got made. From a British point of view, if you can match British fighters against each other, it’s more interesting for the fans.
What went wrong with Anthony Ogogo?
The shots he got caught with the other night, weren’t massively devastating shots. It’s really the first proper test he’s had as a professional.
Sometimes you can get a little bit complacent and take your eye off the ball, because you get comfortable with breezing through the easier tests. That definitely happened to me when I ran into my first loss against Scott Dixon.
That was probably one of the best things that ever happened to me, so sometimes it isn’t always a bad thing to get a loss and he’s a great talent, Anthony Ogogo, and I …