David Price’s sad reminder of Denis Boytsov’s lost power: “I only hit me the top of the head”

David Price did not publish it for Likes. Did not throw it into a promotional reel. He only reminded the boxing world quietly something brutal: the scariest punch that he was never in front of him now is not remembered, and barely alive.

“I caused a Russian called Denis Boytsov in Germany once.” Price said Daily Star Sport. “I just hit me the top of the head, but it was a powerful punch.”

This is all that was needed. It is not a loop right. It is not a clean case. Only a shot of gaze on the crown and the price, which has punched the heaviest hitting in the division, can still not forget it. That says everything.

We do not approach sugar. Price’s career became a prominent reel for the rise of others. It was flattened by the names plastered through belts, posters and Dazn offers. But the man who left the deepest mark was none of them.

It was Boytsov.

And barely listen to his name.

It was 36-1. He had the impetus. He had his hands. Was aligned by a worldwide. Then he faded. In May 2015, two Berlin train stations were unconscious. The fractured skull. Inflated brain. Coma medically induced. Seven weeks.

They said it was an “accident”.

Berlin police had the biliary to call the “accident”. In the meantime, Boytsov’s own website said he was linked to years of threats his wife called Mob Revenge.

Price did not move words: “He was absolutely abused by a gang of Russian companions and he left dead. He couldn’t fight again.”

And he never did.

Boytsov fell more than 30 kilos in the hospital. I couldn’t talk. I couldn’t walk. Initially treated in Berlin, he was then transferred to a rehabilitation clinic in Hamburg. In August 2021, Boytsov was transferred to his native Russia for continuous care. . It still has 24 -hour care, unable to speak and continues to require attendance for daily activities.

Although the sport continued: the benefit never existed.

The hype went to the safer hands. The belts went to ticket vendors. The world never saw what Boytsov could have been. He was buried under a system that never wanted him near a title.

Without history of comeback. No Redemption Arch. No one cried in a microphone on how he “overcome adversity”. Just disappeared.

And the next time someone begins to list who struck the hardest, Tyson this, more wild, remember who David Price named.

They were not the boys on the poster. It was the one who never got his shot.

And we will never know what could have been done.

What a sad, forgiveness wasted.