By Scott Gilfoid: Fans of Audley Harrison (31-7, 23 KO’s) might be pleased to know that he plans on continuing his boxing career after having recently said he was going to retire following a nice 70 second 1st round knockout to American heavyweight talent Deontay Wilder last month.
Audley, 41, says he doesn’t want to end his career on a bad note, and who can blame him. He looked terrible getting obliterated in one round by Deontay in front of a large London crowd.
Audley said this about his decision to continue his boxing career: “If I don’t get up and try again, everything I’ve stood for would mean nothing. Setbacks pave the way for comebacks. I believe it so I have to live it and go again…I can’t walk away with that performance [against Deontay]. If I do it would haunt me until I’m old and gray. I got up, they should have let him come to finish me and let me show what I got.”
Yeah, why retire when Audley can just wait around until Eddie Hearn puts together another one of his Prizefighter tourneys stacked with God awful heavyweights that even Audley can continue to clean up against and win a nice little pile of change.
If I’m Audley, I’d hang around just for that. I think the heavyweight Prizefighter tourneys are the only Prizefighter tourneys that the British public has any interest in, and Audley can beat up and be adored by his loyal fans.
I must admit it is kind of sad that Audley thought he would have been able to come back from his 1st round knockdown against Deontay Wilder. All you need to do is take one look at how weak-legged Audley looked after he got up from the knockdown to know that Deontay would have finished him off immediately if the referee had allowed the fight to continue.
I guess a lot of Audley’s fans will be happy that he’s sticking around the sport. I’m not sure which direction is going to take, however. It seems to me that he’s heading down the same path as Danny Willams and will be a journeyman type fighter that takes fights for small change as an opponent for domestic and European level heavyweights.
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