By Sean McDaniel: Former Olympic Gold Medal winner Audley Harrison (27-4, 20 KO’s) believes he’s going to get to World Boxing Association (WBA) heavyweight champion David Haye (24-1, 22 KO’s) at some point in their fight on November 13th and knock him out with a big left hand to the jaw. If Harrison hadn’t been looking so good lately, I’d completely dismiss what he’s saying. However, Harrison is fighting with much more passion in the past year and looks like he’s finally become the heavyweight that many boxing fans were hoping he would be. Harrison and Haye will be fighting at the M.E.N. Arena, in Manchester on 11/13.

Haye, 29, needs this win if he’s going to move on to bigger and hopefully better things like the Klitschko brothers. Harrison plans on ending Haye’s brief championship campaign and take on both the Klitschko brothers himself. In an article at East Side Boxing’s On the Ropes Boxing Radio, the 38-year-old Harrison says “I believe my left hand is better than his right hand at some point it will land on his chin and I’ll knock him out.”

Indeed, if Harrison does land one of his big left hand shots on the chin of Haye, there’s a very good chance that he’ll spark Haye out. We’ve seen Haye get knocked down by lesser punchers than Harrison and he took a lot of shots against the small 6’2″ John Ruiz in his last fight in April. If the 6’5″ Harrison can land even half as many hard shots as Ruiz did in that fight, Haye could find himself flat on his back wondering what happened.

The only way that Haye won’t get hit by Harrison is if he can stop him quickly in the first few rounds of the bout. For that to happen, Haye is going to have to put his weak chin at risk by going after Harrison with one of his big bombs. Haye has got to be careful, because Harrison is a southpaw and if Haye comes lunging in with one of his Hayemakers, Harrison will meet him with a straight left hand and take him out. Haye fought very timidly against the 7-foot former WBA heavyweight champion Nikolay Valuev last year in November and ended up winning a close 12 round majority decision.

I have a feeling that Haye will fight the same way as he did in that fight by using a lot of movement to keep Harrison from landing one of his big lefts. Haye looks practically miniature next to the giant Harrison, and it’s going to be interesting to see how Haye can land anything given his huge height and weight disadvantage in this fight. Haye’s best chance of doing damage is when he gets in a clinch with Harrison.

Haye proved to be quite lethal with his rabbit punches in his fight with Ruiz, and even produced a knockdown with one of them. If the referee allows for this kind of punching, then Haye could give Harrison a lot of problems with rabbit shots when in close. In the U.S., Haye would likely be disqualified for this kind of fighting but in the UK he seems to get away with it.