Hopey Price

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]

Hopey Price
Born	Ivan Hope Price (2000-03-06) 6 March 2000 (age 24) Leeds, Yorkshire, England
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 Representing  Great Britain Youth Olympic Games 2018 Buenos Aires Flyweight Representing  England Youth World Championships 2018 Budapest Flyweight European Youth Championships 2018 Roseto Flyweight 2017 Antalya Flyweight

Professional career

In 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

12 fights	12 wins	0 losses
By knockout	5	0
By decision	7	0

No.	Result	Record	Opponent	Type	Round, time	Date	Location	Notes
12	Win	12–0	Connor Coghill	TKO	12, 1:29	7 Oct 2023	Sheffield Arena, Sheffield	Coghill down once in the 6th, once in the 11th and twice in the 12th.
11	Win	11–0	James Beech Jr.	RTD	7(10) 3:00	1 Jul 2023	Sheffield Arena, Sheffield	Beach Jnr cut over the left eye in the 6th round and the right eye in the 7th.
10	Win	10–0	Thomas Masson	UD	10	18 Mar 2023	Newcastle Arena, Newcastle
9	Win	9–0	Jonathan Santana	PTS	8	10 Dec 2022	First Direct Arena, Leeds	Santana down in the 3rd round.
8	Win	8–0	Alexander Mejia	PTS	8	6 Aug 2022	Sheffield Arena, Sheffield
7	Win	7–0	Ricardo Roman	TKO	4(6) 1:09	12 Feb 2022	Alexandra Palace, Muswell Hill	Roman down once in the 1st round and once in the 4th.
6	Win	6–0	Zahid Hussain	TKO	2 (10), 2:33	4 Sep 2021	Headingley Stadium, Leeds, England	Won vacant IBO International super-bantamweight title
5	Win	5–0	Claudio Grande	PTS	6	14 Aug 2021	Matchroom Headquarters, Brentwood, England
4	Win	4–0	Daniel Mendoza	PTS	6	13 Feb 2021	The SSE Arena, London, England
3	Win	3–0	Jonny Phillips	PTS	6	7 Aug 2020	Matchroom Headquarters, Brentwood, England
2	Win	2–0	Swedi Mohamed	TKO	3 (4), 2:26	7 Dec 2019	Diriyah Arena, Diriyah, Saudi Arabia
1	Win	1–0	Joel Sanchez	PTS	4	2 Nov 2019	Manchester Arena, Manchester, England

References

1. "Buenos Aires 2018 – Get to know more about England's flyweight Ivan Price". AIBA. 3 October 2018. Retrieved 8 December 2019.
2. "AIBA Youth Women's & Men's World Championships: the men's to watch". AIBA. 8 August 2018. Retrieved 8 December 2019.
3. "Youth Olympic Games 2018: Ivan Hope Price wins GB's first gold". BBC Sport. 17 October 2018.
4. "AMATEUR STANDOUT HOPEY PRICE SIGNS WITH MATCHROOM". Matchroom Boxing. 11 October 2019. Retrieved 9 December 2019.
5. "Dave Coldwell Excited By The Potential of Hopey Price". BoxingScene.com. 12 November 2019. Retrieved 8 December 2019.
6. "Hopey Price". Matchroom Boxing. Retrieved 8 December 2019.
7. "Leeds boxer Hopey Price delivers winning blow to beat Swedi Mohamed in Diriyah". www.yorkshirepost.co.uk. Retrieved 8 December 2019.
8. "BoxRec: Bout". boxrec.com. Retrieved 8 December 2019.
9. "Boxrec: Hopey Price".