Price: I knocked out AJ

David Price has claimed he knocked out Anthony Joshua in sparring and offered the world heavyweight champion a chance for revenge in the professional ranks.

The Liverpudlian recently responded to a tweet by Joshua asking for ‘serious’ opponents by volunteering his services as a challenger for the IBF title, hinting at a dramatic past encounter.

Price has now shed light on a training session in 2011 during which he says he emphatically floored Joshua, a year before the Watford amateur struck gold at the London Olympic Games.

“It’s probably the worst kept secret in boxing and it’s something that I’ve never really brought up or mentioned,” Price told Sky Sports.

“When it happened, Joshua was an amateur on the GB squad and I was a novice pro and I kept it to myself because he was an up and coming potential boxer. I wanted to protect him from it, didn’t want to go around boasting about it.

“But our positions have changed and he’s IBF heavyweight champion of the world. I’m someone who would definitely be interested in …

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