By Sean McDaniel: The British Boxing Board of Control has advised Hayemaker Promotions not to pay former EBU heavyweight champion Audley Harrison (27-5, 20 KO’s) in full for his dreadful performance in losing to WBA heavyweight champion David Haye (25-1, 23 KO’s) recently, according to news from Boxrec. Harrison, 39, has already received a partial payment but the Board is recommending that Harrison not receive the full payment until the Board has finished deliberating on the matter.

Harrison threw only punch during the three rounds of the fight, and completely fell apart when Haye opened up with his offense in the 3rd round. Haye did next to nothing himself in the first two rounds of the bout, but suddenly had Harrison in trouble once he started throwing punches in the 3rd.

Robert Smith, the General Secretary of the BBBofC, had this to say about the Haye-Harrison fight: “With Audley, some of the money has been paid but the promoter has been advised not to pay all the money until after our deliberations.”

In addition to looking into without holding Harrison’s money, the Board will also examine Haye’s claims of having bet on stopping Harrison in the 3rd round. Haye initially said he had bet on stopping Harrison in the 3rd. But later, when Haye retracted the statement and said that he hadn’t bet. In an article at the dailymail.co.uk, Robert Smith said ‘We’ve taken on board what David has said, his first statement and his second statement. The board can issue him with a warning, but we have lots of options.”

The fight was bad enough with Harrison throwing only punch and Haye doing next to nothing himself until the 3rd, but by saying he bet on stopping Harrison in the 3rd, it tarnished the fight even further. Harrison’s lack of effort was bad, but the betting remark made the fight seem like a sham. The fight went for £14.95 on Sky Sports, and there’s an estimated 700,000 viewers who purchased the PPV fight. This obviously was a big disappointment for many of them, as the fight was never even close to being competitive. It looked like a non-fight the way that Harrison failed to throw hardly any punches other than a harmless jab in the fight.