Audley Harrison wants the Klitschkos in 2010!
February 23rd, 2010
by Daniel Ciminera: Audley Harrison (26/4/0), who is set for a London showdown on the 9th of April with Essex-based Pole, Albert Sosnowski, says once he takes Sosnowski’s European title, he wants to move on to bigger things. The Klitschko brothers. Like every other heavyweight who knows they wont get a spoonful of the Klitschko gravy train before they retire, he’s just blowing smoke to gain publicity as he’s also said he won’t fight Haye as he doesn’t carry enough media attention. More like Haye is going to be around for a couple more years yet, and perhaps would give Audley a go.
Since winning Commonwealth and Olympic Gold medals in 1998 and 2000, Harrison has “failed to launch” as it were. He has always talked a good fight, but apart from the odd, rare glimmer of hope, he has not produced the goods in the ring. Yes, he has only lost 4, and I’m not saying 4 losses means you’re no good. I’m saying, in spite of only losing 4 times, Harrison doesn’t have the speed, stamina, agility, or skill to get to compete successfully at world level, and if he has, he’s hidden it very well for a decade of professional boxing.
Audley may shock us by coming back stronger and better than ever, after going away to rebuild his career in America and in the process, winning promoter Barry Hearn’s “Prizefighter” tournament last year. However, Sosnowski is still a major step up in quality from that tournament in which they fought 3-round bouts, as most of the guys in it were novice fighters, which is all Harrison has fought since his knockout loss to Michael Sprott back at the beginning of 2007. Which was arguably, Harrison’s “biggest” fight to date.
I’m sure I am not alone in feeling that a man for whom the highlight of his career was avenging a defeat to fellow Brit, Danny Williams in 2006, has slim to zero chance of getting a shot against one of the Klitschkos, and even less hope of beating one of them.
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it is rather racist not to care about boxing because there are not enough black heavyweights…but then i suspect you wouldnt get that
solini, that’s a good excuse, but many dont make it in professional sports because they cant jump through the hoops to get in and survive college, just as many good athletes dont make it as do, but its not because of lack of talent…and, in the usa 70-80 percent of boxing gyms are in the inner city, giving the black athlete every advantage in the american boxing scene…so youir excuses may make you feel better, but they ring hollow….
Audley Harrison has the physical gifts to be championship material,no duobt about it! The thing is so does Wlad Klitschkos, part champ and fights part chump!
I don’t care how gifted someone is,if they fight safty first it’s boaring.People don’t watch boxing because they want to see a “safe fight”,they watch boxing because they want to see A FIGHT!Am I not right?
What I would like to see is both Wlad and Audley get in there and let those tools fly,be busy and try to win spetaculairly what was once known as the greatest prize in all of sports,THE HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE WORLD!!!
Well I sa good luck Audley I like to see people reach thier goals in life and as funny as it sounds it’s a possibility. I f he used the tools god gave him and showed some heart he would’ve been champion long ago.
harrison had all the the tools for the job except he could’t be bothered doing it. what with the money from the bbc contract and the fame surrounding him at the time he chose to appear in rachel stevens song videos than spend more time in the gym.
shame cos i had £50 on him to be world champ in 4 year too !
Give Audley a shot he would do better than any of Wlad and Vitali’s last three opponents cause he will box him and he will come with solid plan and is mnot a fat bum
ha ha ha is he serious, not even Aprils fools yet, although hes better than most American contenders at the moment
Harrison needs to beat Sosnowski first… which he should be able to do. Watching him on Prizefighter was interesting, he knows he can knock people out and early too. The KO against Sprott was bad but so where Lennox Lewis’s, doesn’t mean he was beaten by a better boxer. Not forgetting that Sprott was down in the 1st.
Harrison is the perfect example of what makes heavyweights so fascinating – one punch and its lights out. He has a chance against anyone if he gets in there early, as he does have a big punch. Good luck to him I say but he is going to have to pack a few fights into this year if he wants a crack at a world title.
Me thinks Audley’s taken one too many punches to the head, he is clearly delusional.
AUDLEY HARRISON HAS ALL OF THE TOOLS AT HIS DISPOSAL TO DOMINATE THE HEAVYWEIGHT BOXING SCENE
Every heavyweight wants to fight the klitschko’s. that’s obvious. Its there only chance to make 7 figures for one fight. Just like every 140 and 147 fighter wants Mayweather or Pacquiao. They want the money. Maybe once the Klitschko’s retire we can have a real heavyweight division with competition. Its not even interesting when no one stands any chance of beating either of the brothers.
i didnt even read the article i just saw the headline and started laughing. harrison is a joke . he is in my opinion the worst fighter to come out of the uk . he hould give it up and retire.
The heavyweight division is over with. Honestly who cares about it anymore. As a black person myself when I see black heavyweights I figure they either never went to college and made it playing football or basketball, or they took up the sport late in life.
A friend of mind said to me while talking boxing that Audrey Harrison would be the next heavy weight champion of the world i said you must be joking he’s big useless lump who promise all but was another boxer who couldn’t make the jump from amateur to the pro game,and this latest hot air from him is a try for one last big pay day!!! he’s a bum and should call it a day.
i really hope he does it…. when he has shown us glipes of what he can do he has looked ace.. but its too rare
Great article.
Personallly i think Harrison fully believes what hes saying, i think he has no chance of facing the Klitchkos but i do think he believes.
I thought Harrison could turn out to be a very good heavyweight even considering the age he was when he turned pro but hes not got the heart for it, his confidence took a couple of early knocks and he went into a shell, his skills never sharpened and he lost that hunger for the game that boxer REALLY need if they are guna go through all that training and go 12 brutal tiring rounds.
Every now and again he gets the belief back and gets back into the media and talks it up, and believes it, but 1 tough period of training followed by a few tough rounds where things aint going his way and hes back in his shell.
And to be honest hes got a very limited shelf life now, if hes guna do somethin he needs to hurry up.