By William Mackay: Former 2000 Olympic super heavyweight Gold Medalist Audley Harrison (27-5, 20 KO’s) was impressed with unbeaten British heavyweight Tyson Fury’s recent 5th round knockout victory over Brazilian Marcelo Luiz Nascimento last Saturday night, but the 39-year-old Harrison doesn’t think that the 22-year-old Fury is ready for him. Harrison spotted flaws in Fury’s game and feels that he’s not up to the task of facing him yet.
Fury dropped the little known Nascimento twice in a fight that looked more like a barroom brawl than a pro bout. Neither Fury nor Nasciemento looked particularly skilled, and it’s not surprising that Harrison wasn’t impressed with what he saw in that fight. Fury is still unbeaten but he looked amateurish throughout the 5th round bout with Nasciemento.
Harrison had this to say about Fury in his twitter account: “Fury’s got quick hands, but he’s not ready for me yet. He makes too many mistakes. After calling me out, I noticed in the post-fight interview he didn’t call my name.”
Fury was recently saying he wanted to fight Harrison, but clammed up after the Brazilian Nasciemento was dug up from somewhere to take the fight. Harrison is coming off of a disappointing 3rd round stoppage loss to WBA heavyweight champion David Haye last year in November. It was one of the worst performances from Harrison during his career, as he only threw one punch during the entire fight. It looked like he had a bad case of the nerves.
Fury is upset that he can’t fight British heavyweight champion Dereck Chisora, who is currently booked up with a scheduled fight with IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko in April. Fury will have to wait for Chisora to get freed up before he can fight for the British title. However, if Fury were smart, he’d give up on that idea and just focus on trying to get good enough to fight at the world level. Fury doesn’t look nearly good enough to beat anyone in the top 15 right now, so he needs a lot of work on his game. He’s too wild and his trainer Emanuel Steward appears to have had no affect on changing Fury’s amateurish style of fighting.
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