Ivan Hope Price (born 6 March 2000), better known as Hopey Price, is an English professional boxer. As an amateur, he won silver medals at the 2017 European Youth Championships and 2018 Youth World Championships,[1] and gold at the 2018 European Youth Championships[2] and 2018 Youth Olympics; becoming the first boxer from Great Britain to win gold at a Youth Olympic Games.[3]
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| Born | Ivan Hope Price 6 March 2000 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other names | Drago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Statistics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight(s) | Super-bantamweight | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 8+1⁄2 in (174 cm) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stance | Southpaw | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Boxing record | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total fights | 12 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wins | 12 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wins by KO | 5 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Losses | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Professional career
editIn 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.[4] The fight took place on 2 November 2019 at the Manchester Arena, Manchester, with Price scoring a four-round points decision victory over Joel Sanchez on the undercard of Katie Taylor's world title challenge against Christina Linardatou.[5][6] 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.[7][8]
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.[9]
Professional boxing record
edit| 12 fights | 12 wins | 0 losses |
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| By knockout | 5 | 0 |
| By decision | 7 | 0 |
| No. | Result | Record | Opponent | Type | Round, time | Date | Location | Notes |
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| 12 | Win | 12–0 |  Connor Coghill
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TKO | 12, 1:29 | 7 Oct
2023 |
Sheffield Arena, Sheffield
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Coghill down once in the 6th, once in the 11th and twice in the 12th. |
| 11 | Win | 11–0 | James Beech Jr.
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RTD | 7(10) 3:00 | 1 Jul
2023 |
Sheffield Arena, Sheffield
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Beach Jnr cut over the left eye in the 6th round and the right eye in the 7th. |
| 10 | Win | 10–0 |  Thomas Masson
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UD | 10 | 18 Mar
2023 |
Newcastle Arena, Newcastle
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| 9 | Win | 9–0 |  Jonathan Santana
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PTS | 8 | 10 Dec
2022 |
First Direct Arena, Leeds
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Santana down in the 3rd round. |
| 8 | Win | 8–0 |  Alexander Mejia
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PTS | 8 | 6 Aug
2022 |
Sheffield Arena, Sheffield
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| 7 | Win | 7–0 |  Ricardo Roman
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TKO | 4(6) 1:09 | 12 Feb
2022 |
Alexandra Palace, Muswell Hill
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Roman down once in the 1st round and once in the 4th. |
| 6 | Win | 6–0 | Zahid Hussain
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TKO | 2 (10), 2:33 | 4 Sep 2021 | Headingley Stadium, Leeds, England
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Won vacant IBO International super-bantamweight title |
| 5 | Win | 5–0 |  Claudio Grande
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PTS | 6 | 14 Aug 2021 | Matchroom Headquarters, Brentwood, England
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| 4 | Win | 4–0 | Daniel Mendoza
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PTS | 6 | 13 Feb 2021 | The SSE Arena, London, England
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| 3 | Win | 3–0 | Jonny Phillips
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PTS | 6 | 7 Aug 2020 | Matchroom Headquarters, Brentwood, England
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| 2 | Win | 2–0 |  Swedi Mohamed
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TKO | 3 (4), 2:26 | 7 Dec 2019 |  Diriyah Arena, Diriyah, Saudi Arabia
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| 1 | Win | 1–0 | Joel Sanchez
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PTS | 4 | 2 Nov 2019 | Manchester Arena, Manchester, England
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References
edit- ^ "Buenos Aires 2018 – Get to know more about England's flyweight Ivan Price". AIBA. 3 October 2018. Retrieved 8 December 2019.
- ^ "AIBA Youth Women's & Men's World Championships: the men's to watch". AIBA. 8 August 2018. Retrieved 8 December 2019.
- ^ "Youth Olympic Games 2018: Ivan Hope Price wins GB's first gold". BBC Sport. 17 October 2018.
- ^ "AMATEUR STANDOUT HOPEY PRICE SIGNS WITH MATCHROOM". Matchroom Boxing. 11 October 2019. Retrieved 9 December 2019.
- ^ "Dave Coldwell Excited By The Potential of Hopey Price". BoxingScene.com. 12 November 2019. Retrieved 8 December 2019.
- ^ "Hopey Price". Matchroom Boxing. Retrieved 8 December 2019.
- ^ "Leeds boxer Hopey Price delivers winning blow to beat Swedi Mohamed in Diriyah". www.yorkshirepost.co.uk. Retrieved 8 December 2019.
- ^ "BoxRec: Bout". boxrec.com. Retrieved 8 December 2019.
- ^ "Boxrec: Hopey Price".
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