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, and gold at the 2018 European Youth Championships and 2018 Youth Olympics; becoming the first boxer from Great Britain to win gold at a Youth Olympic Games.
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. 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. 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.
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.
Professional boxing record
ResultRecordOpponentTypeRound, timeDateLocationNotes12Win12–0 Connor CoghillTKO12, 1:297 Oct 202311Win11–0 James Beech Jr.RTD7(10) 3:001 Jul 202310Win10–0 Thomas MassonUD1018 Mar 20239Win9–0 Jonathan SantanaPTS810 Dec 20228Win8–0 Alexander MejiaPTS86 Aug 20227Win7–0 Ricardo RomanTKO4(6) 1:0912 Feb 20226Win6–0 Zahid HussainTKO2 (10), 4 Sep 20215Win5–0 Claudio GrandePTS614 Aug 20214Win4–0 Daniel MendozaPTS613 Feb 20213Win3–0 Jonny PhillipsPTS67 Aug 20202Win2–0 Swedi Mohamed 3 (4), 7 Dec 20191Win1–0 Joel Sanchez42 Nov 2019
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