By Scott Gilfoid: 41-year-old Martin Rogan (15-3, 7 KO’s) is hoping to put 41-year-old Audley Harrison (28-6, 21 KO’s) out of his misery on Saturday night in the Prizefigther tournament at the York Hall, Bethnal Green, London, United Kingdom. Rogan, who hasn’t exactly been the most active of heavyweights in the last couple of years, feels he’s got what it takes to do the job on the 6’5” former 2000 Olympic gold medalist Harrison on Saturday.
Rogan said to fightnews.com “Audley has been fooling himself and the British public for too long. It’s time to end him once and for all and I would love to be the man to do it. I am desperate to face him again…and I’ll beat him again and throw A-Face out of boxing for good.”
Rogan did beat Harrison five years ago by a narrow 10 round points decision by the score of 96-95. Rogan was hardly dominating in that fight, but he did enough to beat Harrison. At this point it really doesn’t matter if Rogan wins or not because it’s already academic that Harrison is past it and on his last legs. His 12-year pro career didn’t pan gold like some people thought it would when he turned pro in 2001, and he never did win a world title.
Rogan will be lucky if he finishes the tournament on his feet because he looked god awful in getting stopped in the 5th round by Tyson Fury last year in April in a fight where Fury toyed with Rogan by fighting in the southpaw stance the entire fight.
Rogan was a decent little domestic level slugger in his prime, but he’s past it and I don’t expect him do well against the likes of Travis Walker and some of the other heavyweights in Saturday’s Prizefighter tournament.
Here are the heavyweights in the tournament: Ian Lewison, Travis Walker, Albert Sosnowski, Timo Hoffmann, Claus Bertino, Derric Rossy, Audley Harrison and Martin Rogan.
My guess is Walker wins the tournament by knocking out everybody he faces. Walker can really punch, and when he’s facing weak 2nd tier opposition like the type of fighters he’ll be facing in the tournament, he does remarkably well.
I think either Rogan or Harrison could have their careers ended on Saturday night. I mean, what’s left of their careers.
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