Did Audley have the talent to make it to the top?

[Herol]

No stamina
No chin
Too old
Mentally scared

[oliverfennell]

he had the size,the offence,but the one thing missing HEART without which no boxer can ever make it

perfect answer and his rubbish match making for himself didnt help make the big fighst come sooner

Show me a heavyweight prospect with better opposition across his first 10 to 15 fights.

Povetkin, yes, Solis maybe... but precious few. The idea of Harrison fighting bums on the way up is a myth perpetuated by F Warren, uninformed tabloid writers and the casual fans who unquestioningly believed those sources. For sure Harrison was a solid favourite to win all those early fights, but so are all major prospects at that stage. I know things never did work out for Audley in the long term, but I said at the time and I will continue to say it now - his apprenticeship fights were very solid.

[telboy66]

he had the size,the offence,but the one thing missing HEART without which no boxer can ever make it

perfect answer and his rubbish match making for himself didnt help make the big fighst come sooner

Show me a heavyweight prospect with better opposition across his first 10 to 15 fights.

Povetkin, yes, Solis maybe... but precious few. The idea of Harrison fighting bums on the way up is a myth perpetuated by F Warren, uninformed tabloid writers and the casual fans who unquestioningly believed those sources. For sure Harrison was a solid favourite to win all those early fights, but so are all major prospects at that stage. I know things never did work out for Audley in the long term, but I said at the time and I will continue to say it now - his apprenticeship fights were very solid.

I never critizied his early opponents just his inabilty to get in the trenchs when the going got tough,if he felt one on the whiskers he went into defence mode instead of throwing the bombs which we all knew he had, if he was up against a boxer prepered to trade with him he lacked the confidence to see it through IE rogan not a good fighter but had the balls to worry audley enough to knock him off his fight plan. I see him as a latter day Joe Bugner impressive to look at but not really wanting to be a boxer

[Chambers2]

he had the size,the offence,but the one thing missing HEART without which no boxer can ever make it

perfect answer and his rubbish match making for himself didnt help make the big fighst come sooner

Show me a heavyweight prospect with better opposition across his first 10 to 15 fights.

Povetkin, yes, Solis maybe... but precious few. The idea of Harrison fighting bums on the way up is a myth perpetuated by F Warren, uninformed tabloid writers and the casual fans who unquestioningly believed those sources. For sure Harrison was a solid favourite to win all those early fights, but so are all major prospects at that stage. I know things never did work out for Audley in the long term, but I said at the time and I will continue to say it now - his apprenticeship fights were very solid.

I've (repeatedly) said the same about his first 10-15 fights, they stand up very well compared to the large majority of other HW's. As you say allegedly created that myth.

[rhino222]

which is rich coming from allegedly, the man who puts up 5 umbrellas when it rains !!!!

[THEBUTCH]

Going back a few posts to housesecond and yiddo14, I don't believe he did have the talent.

Against the right opposition "looking" like you have the talent to reach the top (and by top I mean world champion) is possible. The fact Audley hasn't consistently displayed this sort of talent even when boxing guys who are well short of "the top" tells me he didn't have the talent required.