When you watch a fighter with legitimate, bone-shuddering power in either fist, you enter into another sporting realm. You cannot get a walk-off home run in the middle innings. You cannot see a buzzer beater rip out a team's heart at anytime but the final minute. The shocking one punch KO is the nuclear bomb of the world of sport . It is begrudgingly admired, and is often followed by a sense that things will never be the same again.
And so as Liverpool-based heavyweight prospect David Price stepped into the ring last month, in front of a packed out Echo Arena, we expected to be dazzled by a shot, that while perhaps not heard around the world, would certainly send throngs of scousers onto the streets knowing they had witnessed something unique, something special
And now we know, of course they did.
