Dirrell training with Mayweather Sr; Audley Harrison to compete in Prizefighter

By Boxing News - 01/10/2013 - Comments

harrison564By Scott Gilfoid: Super middleweight Andre Dirrell (20-1, 14 KO’s) is being trained by Floyd Mayweather Sr to get ready for a fight coming up in the next few months. The talented Dirrell was rumored to be fighting Rowland Bryant but that fight doesn’t appear to be on the plate for Dirrell.

Dirrell told Chris Robinson at hustleboss.com “He’s a great trainer and the work is nothing less than perfect so I’m enjoying it. I’m just sharpening up my skills to give a more crowd pleasing performance.”

Dirrell hasn’t fought since blowing out Darryl Cunningham by a 2nd round knockout in December 2011. Dirrell is being promoted by 50 Cent now and hopefully he can get this amazing talent some fights because Dirrell is too good for him to be wasting away like this while lesser talents hold titles in the super middleweight division.

If Dirrell had been staying active in the past two years he’d no doubt be one of the world champions at 168 and he might even be a two belt holder. I could see Dirrell beating both Carl Froch and Mikkel Kessler as long as the fights were held in a neutral venue.

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41-year-old Audley Harrison (28-6 21 KO’s) will be taking part in the Prizefighter tournament heavyweight quarter-final on February 23rd at the York Hall in Bethnal Green, London, UK. This is a real backwards move for Harrison, but not a surprising one. Harrison has lost two out of his last three fights and looked awful. It looks like Audley is trying to recapture his success from 2009 when he captured the Prizefighter heavyweight tournament with wins over Coleman Barrett, Danny Hughes and Scott Belshaw.

Harrison was able to take the win in the Prizefighter tourney to get a big money fight against David Haye. Obviously, that’s not going to happen again because even if Audley wins the tourney in beating a handful of obscure 2nd tier heavyweights, he’s probably not going to get another fight against Haye or fights against David Price or Tyson Fury. I say probably because somehow I can see one of those three heavyweights choosing to fight Audley because he’s well known and a safe fight where you know you’re going to beat him.



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