By Sean McDaniel: 40-year-old former 2000 Olympic super heavyweight gold medal for Britain Audley Harrison (27-5, 20 KO’s) is testing himself against former 2010 heavyweight Prizerfighter contestant Ali Adams (13-3-1, 5 KO’s) in a scheduled 10 round bout at the Brentwood Center, Essex, UK.
This is a make or break fight for Harrison, who says that if he loses the fight then he’ll be retiring from boxing. If Harrison wins, he wants to face Tyson Fury or David Price after that followed by a big named top world contender. It would seem that Harrison could be filtered out long before he gets to that point by losing to Adams.
Harrison told the sunsport “If I lose, that’s it. Life will go on and at least I’ll know. I want to find out if I can still be the guy who had a 19-0 record at one point…The plan is to beat Adams; have a big test against a Price or Fury before the Olympics and then have a showdown with one of the top names by the end of the year.”
Adams, 30, originally came from Baghdad, Iraq, and now lives in Chelsea. He took part in the 2010 PrizeFighter tournament and was soundly beaten by 43-year-old Matt Skelton in a one-sided three round decision. In looking at some of Adams’ other fights against Gabor Farkas, and Igoris Borucha, one can’t help notice the lack of punching power from Adams.
He likes to rush his opponents in the opening round, throw a flurry and then spent the rest of the time showboating and doing a lot of clinching. His upper body is really tight, as he lacks flexibility as well as power. If he throws more than a tiny handful of punches then he gasses out. Much of the time he throws one or two punches and immediately falls into a clinch. When he’s separated from his opponent he often holds his arms out to his sides daring his opponent to attack him. Since his opposition has been so poor for his entire career, they usually hang back and let Adams come to them and he does willingly. But like clockwork, after he lands or two weak shots, he falls into an ugly clinch.
This will be the first fight for Harrison since he was stopped by WBA heavyweight champion David Haye in November 2010.
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