By Scott Gilfoid: 40-year-old Audley Harrison (28-5, 21 KO’s) has really nothing to lose on October 13th against British heavyweight champion David Price (13-0, 11 KO’s) in their fight at the Echo Arena, in Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom. Harrison has already reached rock bottom with losses to David Haye, Martin Rogan, Michael Sprott, Dominick Guinn and Danny Williams. Harrison only has one direction he can go and that’s up. Another loss for him won’t drive him down any farther than he already is because he can’t possibly get any lower than he is now.

With that being said, the 6’5 1/2″ Harrison needs to look to plant a big left hand right on Price’s mandible to look to get him out of there in the 1st round. I would normally suggest that Harrison wait a little while before looking to blast the tender-chinned Price out with a big homerun left hand, but given Price’s power and Harrison’s fragile chin, I think it would be prudent for Harrison go all out in the 1st round by trying to connect with something big. He’s got the power, he’s the speed and he’s got the athletic advantage to win this fight if he starts off a blistering pace and forgets all about form and other such things.

Harrison has to turn it into a fast street fight in the 1st round where he just flurries on the stiff and robotic Price to get him out before he can crank up one of his right hands to get Harrison out. Price reminds me a lot of someone that paints by the numbers.

You can see him mentally thinking when he’s in the ring, like ‘Okay, I’m jabbing now, this is what I was taught to do so I’m doing it. Next, I’ll throw a right hand at this point and then a left hand.’ It just looks like Price is following a script when he fights and it looks awful. What Harrison has to do is get Price out of paint by the numbers script by going wild on him in the first round and putting Price on his heels unable to think. That’s what you do to robotic fighters. You give them too much information to process and they can’t follow their game plan they’re completely lost.

Price looked vulnerable in his fight with Sam Sexton, but Sexton didn’t have the sense to go after Price’s chin. He played into Price’s hands by fighting at a slow pace, letting him dictate the range and now the fight would be fought. That’s not how you fight Price. The way to beat Price is how Bermane Stiverne and Roberto Cammerelle did in the amateur ranks and that’s by going after him and looking to take his head off with every shot. You have to crowd the stork-like Price and tee off on him. You can’t let him keep the fight on the outside because he’ll beat you that way. Harrison isn’t short, but he can definitely let his hands go like Stiverne and Cammarelle did in beating Price. You throw huge power punches and Price will back off.