Audley Harrison Boxing News

Harrison will fight for the vacant European Heavyweight Championship on April 9 at London’s Alexandra Palace.
Former Olympic Games gold medalist Harrison, who saved his career by winning Prizefighter Heavyweights 3 in October, had been scheduled to meet Poland’s Albert Sosnowski for the title.
However, Sosnowski will now face WBC Champion Vitali Klitschko in May and is [...]

BARRY Hearn has tipped Poland’s Albert Sosnowski to ‘cause a big upset’ and beat WBC Champion Vitali Klitschko in May. Sosnowski hails from Warsaw but is now based in Brentwood, Essex and is managed by Hearn, who has co-promoted the majority of his fights.

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 [...]

AUDLEY Harrison believes he has recovered from ‘being a broken man’ and is ready to claim the European Heavyweight Championship.
Harrison, 38, saved his career by winning Prizefighter Heavyweights 3 in October and faces Poland’s Albert Sosnowski for the European belt on April 9 at London’s Alexandra Palace.

PRIZEFIGHTER Champion Audley Harrison has vowed to ‘gatecrash the boxing big-time’ by winning the European Heavyweight Championship in April.
Harrison, 38, saved his career by triumphing in Prizefighter Heavyweights 3 in October and will now meet Poland’s Albert Sosnowski for the European belt.
Former Olympic Gold medalist Harrison hopes the fight, scheduled for April 9 at London’s [...]

By Eric Thomas: 43-year-old retired fighter Mike Tyson made boxing news earlier today when he was reportedly arrested yesterday while at Los Angeles Airport for allegedly striking a 50-year-old photographer in the face and knocking him down. Tyson, 43, was traveling with his wife and 10-month old child. It’s unknown what caused the incident [...]

By Sean McDaniel: Heavyweight Audley Harrison could have greatness ahead of him in 2010 or 2011 at the latest if he can keep looking sensational like he did in capturing the Prizefighter tourney. Harrison, 37, knocked down all three of his Prizefighter opponents – Scott Belshaw, Danny Hughes and Coleman Barrett – stopping two of [...]

By Sean McDaniel: With his three impressive wins, two by stoppage, could heavyweight Audley Harrison (26-4, 19 KO’s) be on his way to becoming the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world? Harrison seems to have jump started his failing boxing career with his victories over Coleman Barrett, Danny Hughes and Scott Belshaw during the Prizefighter [...]

By Nate Anderson: In a shocking upset, heavyweight Carl Baker defeated Danny Williams by a three round decision last night at the Excel Arena, knocking him down two times in the process of winning a the Prizefighter III competition. Baker dropped Williams with a big right hand in the opening 20 seconds of the bout [...]

By Chris Kelly: Audley Harrison’s victory last night in the Heavyweight Prize-Fighter Tournament III sparked yet another of his rants in which he claimed that at the age of 37, there is still “hope” for him in his quest to becoming a world champion. This is a quest may a remind you which began way [...]

By Richard Everett: Unfulfilled promise, a cautionary tale of what could have been, a false dawn and even unworthy of the title of ‘boxer’. All descriptions of a boxing contender upon which in late 2000 Great Britain harboured great expectations.

By Steven Wain: In front of 5000 fight fans at the Excel, Royal Victoria Dock, London the Prizefighter tournament will kick of featuring the heavyweights for a third time, the winner will take home a hefty £32,000 and the title of Prizefighter champion.
Here goes with quarter final number 1 !

By Liam Santiago: Tonight Audley Harrison (23-4, 17 KO’s) will make another attempt to get his career back on track, after an embarrassing start tonight against 6′7″ Scott Belshaw (10-2, 7 KO’s) at the ExCel Arena, Dockland, London. The former olympic gold medallist will star in the prize fighter tournament. Also involved is his bitter [...]

By William Mackay: This Friday night, heavyweight Audley Harrison (23-4, 17 KO’s) will be meeting 6’7” Scott Belshaw (10-2, 7 KO’s) in a scheduled three round bout in the Prizefighter Heavyweights III competition at the Excel Arena, in Dockland, London. Harrison, 37, is hoping to meet his old nemesis Danny Williams in the finals.

By Daniel Cann: It seems professional heavyweight boxing in Britain is going through a critical phase at the moment. When the American monopoly over the World titles has been usurped by two Ukrainian brothers and a giant Russian you would think that there is no better time than now for other nations to capitalize. The [...]

By Steven Wain: On October 2nd at Bethnal Green’s York Hall the Prizefighter competition is once again on the bill featuring the heavyweights for a 3rd time. With one current British champion, three former British champions a gold medalist and 2 unbeaten boxers taking part, this could be the best Prizefighter yet. (For anyone who [...]

By Liam Santiago: Former Olympic Gold Medallist, Audley Harrison, has said on his official website that he wants to challenge fellow heavyweight, David Haye, to an all British show down. Harrison dared Haye to ’send him into retirement’, although Harrison sounds very confident that he could be victorious. The pair used to be close friends [...]

By Liam Santiago: Audley Harrison is set to return to the ring to compete in Prize-fighter’s third heavyweight boxing tournament on October 2nd at the York Hall. Current British Champion Danny Williams and Michael Sprott are also entering the tournament. The three have a big history with each other with victories and defeats to each [...]

By Chris Williams: Earlier today, former Olympic Gold medalist heavyweight Audley Harrison (23-4, 17 KOs) called out David Haye (22-1, 21 KOs) for a fight, telling him “I’m sure the British public would love to see you send me into retirement,” referring to Haye’s need for an opponent now that Wladimir Klitschko has tired of [...]

Audley Harrison announced today he is targeting a bout with long time friend David Haye, after Audley was snubbed in his attempt to kick start his career on a Hayemaker promoted show. ‘I hear David is looking for a warm up bout after Wladimir decided they over played their hand. The latest I’m hearing from [...]

By Nate Anderson: In what may be the final nail in the coffin of former 2000 Olympic Gold medalist heavyweight Audley Harrison (23-4, 17 KOs), he was defeated by former Prizefighter’ Heavyweight champion Martin Rogan (11-0, 5 KOs) by a 10-round referee’s decision on Saturday night at the ExCel Arena, Dockland, in London. Rogan, [...]

By Simon Hirst: Whilst tonight is going to remember as the ‘dream match’ between Pac Man and the Golden Boy, for British fans, there are also a lot of good British fights. I know that we have been treated to fights from Britain’s big three throughout November, but for four big British fights to happen [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: In what could be a possible fight between two of the older heavyweights in the division, Audley Harrison (23-3, 17 KOs) and James Toney (70-6, 43 KOs) may possibly meet in October, a fight which would be taking place in England if the fight can be made. According to Dan Rafael from [...]

Scotland’s Alex Arthur admits he “didn’t exactly know what happened” as he lost his WBO super-featherweight title following a points defeat against Nicky Cook in Manchester last Saturday.
The Scot now hopes that Cook will give him the chance to win back his title. Speaking on Setanta Sports News during Steve Bunce’s Boxing Hour Arthur said:
“I [...]

By Nate Anderson: Count me in as one of the few boxing writers that felt that Audley Harrison (23-3, 17 KOs) put on a fine performance last Saturday night against his tough Brazilian opponent George Arias (41-11, 29 KOs) whom he beat by clear cut decision. Harrison looked to be in his finest shape since [...]

By Chris Williams: Former Olympic Gold Medalist Audley Harrison (23-3, 17 KOs) defeated Brazilian heavyweight George Arias (41-11, 29 KOs) by a 10-round decision on Saturday night at the M.E.N. Arena, Manchester, in Lancashire, United Kingdom. The final scores were 98-94. Although much of the media has criticized the 36 year-old Harrison’s performance, calling it [...]

By Nate Anderson: Heavyweight Audley Harrison (22-3, 17 KOs) continues his comeback against last minute replacement Brazilian George Arias (41-10, 29 KOs) on Saturday night at the M.E.N. Arena, in Manchester, Lancashire. Harrison needs to not only defeat Arias, but also do it in an impressive manner to try and regain his appeal with the [...]

By Abbas Dadhiwala: When Audley Harrison won the Olympic Heavyweight Gold Medal in the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, he should have been a World Champion within 4 years, but that was not the case and what many believed the start a journey that would lead him to Unifying the Heavyweight Championship of the World just [...]

By Erik Schmidt: Former 2000 Olympic Gold Medallist Audley Harrison (22-3, 17 KOs) returned to his winning ways on Saturday night with a 5th round stoppage over American Jason Barnett (10-7, 4 KOs) at the Thomas & Mack Center, in Las Vegas, Nevada on Saturday night. The end came suddenly when Harrison, 36, landed a [...]

35-year old Audley Harrison (21-3, 16 KOs) was injured in an automobile crash while coming out of a training camp in Vero beach, making it necessarily for him to cancel his bout with Paul King (5-18-1, 1 KOs), which had been previously scheduled for September 29th. Harrison, the former 2000 Olympic Gold medallist in the [...]