How dangerous/powerful is Audleys left hand?

[yiddo14]

How we have all been suckered in by this farce is beyond me. The only sad but slightly redeeming factor is that the Klits have fought people on a par with Audley recently.

How much is big Aud making for this fight?? It just shows how marketing makes the dollars. I`d be suprised if they weren`t talking to each other on a daily basis, chuckling as they discuss how they have convinced the Uk that they are mortal enenies.

Only Sosnowski can be considered to be on a par with Aud. Even then, the Poles workrate would see him to victory against Harrison.

All of the brothers other challengers have achieved way more than Audley has or would beat him comfortably.

[forcefraser]

How we have all been suckered in by this farce is beyond me. The only sad but slightly redeeming factor is that the Klits have fought people on a par with Audley recently.

How much is big Aud making for this fight?? It just shows how marketing makes the dollars. I`d be suprised if they weren`t talking to each other on a daily basis, chuckling as they discuss how they have convinced the Uk that they are mortal enenies.

Only Sosnowski can be considered to be on a par with Aud. Even then, the Poles workrate would see him to victory against Harrison.

All of the brothers other challengers have achieved way more than Audley has or would beat him comfortably.

Shannon Briggs, Rachman, Thompson and Arreola are nothing to shout home about. The first two were finished long before they fought the Klits.

[yiddo14]

I agree but Aud has not showed me anything since he turned pro to suggest he would even beat washed up versions of Rahman and Briggs. Thompson and Arreola would beat Aud comfortably.

People forget Harrison got beat by Rogan, Wiiliams, Sprott and Guinn(comfortably by Guinn and not even an up and coming Guinn)

[oliverfennell]

if someone throws and connects well any Haye or Klit fight will be 50/50 imo

Audley is usually poor with combos

he will look for the one punch

if he lands..who knows

Disagree. Combo punching is one of Harrison's strengths. True, he doesn't show it all that often, due to his cautious nature, but when he does let them go, he has excellent variety.

im very exciting

I'll take your word for it.

[oliverfennell]

I do agree. Audley is hardly Foreman is he. He can punch, but his KO victories haven't come against top class guys. No offence to Sprott, but he's a couple of levels below Haye in terms of talent.

In talent, yes......but in chin I would say Sprotyy has the better whiskers

Sprott's been stopped eight times and been floored more than 10 times, and usually at a lower level than Haye has been fighting at.

[oliverfennell]

@force

Agreed totally

I think Vince McMahon would blush and that's saying something. However, they missed a trick in my opinion. I think you need an obvious 'heel' to sell this kind of PPV and I think it has been absent in the buildup by and large

Wouldnt surprise if the sales for this aren't all that

It's a sell-out in terms of tickets, so you'd have to assume the PPV rate will be commensurate with that. For Joe Public, it's name recognition that counts, so while Haye v Chagaev or Adamek or Povetkin etc would be better quality matchups, they wouldn't sell anywhere near as well as this will.

As for the "heels", I think the original idea was to present Harrison as that (Haye's opening press conference line about getting more emails from people wanting him to beat Harrison than anyone else) but he's actually lost a lot of fans himseldf, whether through certain ill-advised remarks, disappointment at him taking an "easy" fight, or his Klitschko stance (or all of the above). It's actually turned into the rarity that is a "heel vs heel" match!