By William Mackay: Audley Harrison (28-6, 21 KO’s) suffered a broken nose while in the process of getting knocked out quickly in the 1st round last Saturday night against British heavyweight champion David Price (14-0, 12 KO’s). Harrison, 40, now is trying to figure out what to do with what’s left of his 11 year pro career. Harrison has lost two out of his last three fights, and he’s never really been a factor on the world stage.

Harrison had promised that he was going to come out aggressively against Price last Saturday night at the Echo Arena in Liverpool. Unfortunately, instead of coming out aggressively and throwing punches, Harrison stood there straight up like a flagpole waiting for an opening to present itself.

Price wasn’t going to wait and quickly took advantage of Harrison’s inactivity by clocking him with a right hand. The fight was pretty over at that point because Harrison was sent flying backwards from that punch to the ropes where Price finished him off with a small handful of punches.

Harrison said in a statement today “I’ll take some time to think this out as I never want to come back to boxing once I’ve walked away.”

It’s doubtful that Harrison will retire from this loss. He’s been making real good money serving as an opponent for guys like David Haye and Price, and he could continue in this area as long as he’s able to beat some of the local domestic level heavyweights to work his way back to that capacity.

What Harrison needs is some wins over Matt Skelton, Sam Sexton and Tom Dallas and he should be in a good position to be ready for one of the top guys to face him. However, Harrison is running out of top local heavyweights that will opt to face him again. He can forget about Haye and Harrison ever bothering to fight him ever again.

However, Tyson Fury and Dereck Chisora still haven’t bothered to face him yet, so that’s an area for Harrison if he can show that he’s still one of the top fighters in the UK. But as far as the world scene goes, it’s probably not realistic to see Harrison as ever resuming his fringe level contender status that he briefly had during a short period of his career.