A-Force open letter to Eubank Snr

[Stuffs]

Frankie W hits back...

https://www.allegedly.com/an-open-let ... ey-audley/

Dear Audley

I am afraid your memory – like many of your opponents – must be playing tricks on you.
You got it all wrong as a fighter and now you are doing the same in print as a heavyweight has-been. Or never-was.

In your astonishingly misconceived missive to the Eubanks you claim your ‘redemption’ against Danny Williams in December 2006 as being tarnished by the fact that it tied you into a long-term promotional contract with your ‘nemisis’, namely me.

I find this strange because there was nothing long-term about it and there never was in any subsequent agreements we reached. The reason for this? You kept on losing.

If you remember correctly, you actually came to me in 2005 – when the BBC finally tired of the dross you were serving up to a prime time terrestrial audience – for a fight against Williams and signed a contract accordingly.

When Williams beat you, that contract was null and void. Done with.

You went off to the States, losing to Dominick Guinn, before winning against another opponent with a losing record. You then came back to me asking for a rematch with Williams, signing another contract and winning the fight.

Three months later, you will recall, you fought Michael Sprott at Wembley and got knocked out in three rounds. End of contract with me.

All a far cry from being ‘tied in’, wouldn’t you say?

You suggest I couldn’t believe or accept that you pulled off your deal with the BBC, going on to say the institutions that govern England are skewed against black power or control.

Let’s be clear here Audley, myself along with probably every other fan of the sport was delighted when the BBC jumped into bed with boxing – the same as now with ITV returning to the fold.

What I did have an issue with was what was being served up dragging the sport on a downward spiral – and it did. It probably turned a large percentage of the public against boxing for good and we all know the BBC haven’t touched it since.

The bottom line is that nobody screwed up your BBC deal for you other than yourself.

You entered the professional arena on the back of a magnificent achievement in winning gold in Sydney and, with your personality, it looked for all the world like a sure-fire winner.

The trouble was people quickly tired of you hand-picking a succession of nobodies to knock over.

I know full well the necessity of learning your trade, but you were selling these as the main event supported by awful undercards.

People stopped buying into it, crowds were low and the BBC were getting a lot of flak over their substantial investment of public money.

The Beeb ran the closing credits on your very own dope opera and it was all your own doing. The sport of boxing has paid the price of the BBC no longer being a player in the market ever since.

By the way, I do hope for your sake you are not including me in your rhetoric about institutional racism. Please clarify because if there is one sector of society that does not ever deserve to be tarnished by such a claim it is the boxing fraternity.

I await your reply.

In the meantime, let’s get back to refreshing your memory on all these long-term contracts we were supposed to have locked you into.

Do you remember the other deal we signed in 2008 when you came back to me again and I gave you the opportunity to fight Martin Rogan? That must’ve been another ball-buster because that expired after another defeat.

If it hadn’t of done you wouldn’t have somehow got yourself in position to fight David Haye on pay-per-view. Perhaps the least said about that the better, but you managed to put an end to PPV at the time, which resulted in our parting from Sky.

Perhaps we should give you some credit though as without you allegedly might never have been born. So, in hindsight, I should thank you for that.

However, to make me out to be some sort of modern day slave master is pushing it even by your standards.

I have had a flick through our correspondence over the years – you might like to do the same – and it is noticeable that the vast majority are from you to me asking me to make fights for you. I am happy to make these public if you wish.

Here is an excerpt from one in December 2008 that goes ‘Anyway, it is all irrelevant. I expect you to release me from my contract and call it a day with me, which I can’t say I blame you for’.

You will recall that is exactly what I did.

You might also remember coming on to me in 2009 asking for my help with an insurance company after you had been involved in a car crash and asking for copies of contracts.

It is at times like this that I am happy that I always keep a paper trail of my dealings with people because time clearly can be a great twister when it comes to the truth.

Despite everything, you still came back to me again in 2012 and 2013 requesting another opportunity. Last Chance Saloon was already closed for business by this point.

The architect of your downfall was you, Audley, not me or anybody else in boxing.

You had your big chance on the BBC, but blew it and the advice you should be imparting to the Eubanks is not to make the same mistakes you did.

We don’t want history repeating itself. If ITV want longevity in the sport they need quality control and you don’t tend to get that with a boxer picking his own opponents.

In conclusion, I suggest you stop attempting to rewrite history. You had your big contract and, for want of a better term, you completely f**ked it up because, as good as an amateur as you were, you were a carnage on canvas in the pros.

Wish you every success for the future.

Regards,
Frank

[handsofstone]

Ouch

[whiskey]

Audley was put into the serious burns unit after reading Frank's reply !

[whiskey]

Also, didn't Matchroom's Prizefighter give him the comeback and gateway to the Haye PPV fight ?

Their show paved the way for him to become very rich for throwing three jabs.

I dare say it's a full circle, that Haye laid him flat out - after him & Froch were booted off the BBC to make way for A-farce.

[Nightmare Roy]

Audley was put into the serious burns unit after reading Frank's reply !

[Nightmare Roy]

Zingggg!

[Counter-puncher]

good old FW. like Stalin, I sometimes find it difficult to dislike someone who is always so consistent to themselves.

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Also, didn't Matchroom's Prizefighter give him the comeback and gateway to the Haye PPV fight ?

Their show paved the way for him to become very rich for throwing three jabs.

I dare say it's a full circle, that Haye laid him flat out - after him & Froch were booted off the BBC to make way for A-farce.

Did he really throw that many punches against Haye?

All I can remember is him standing there like a startled pheasant with a wide eyed look of abject terror & doing nothing else.

Poor Parcel Force; Warren has really roasted him there & Frank is absolutely correct.

[mickey1975]

good old FW. like Stalin, I sometimes find it difficult to dislike someone who is always so consistent to themselves.

Fwank is more resilient than any boxer he's ever promoted.

[whiskey]

Did he really throw that many punches against Haye?

All I can remember is him standing there like a startled pheasant with a wide eyed look of abject terror & doing nothing else.

Poor Parcel Force; Warren has really roasted him there & Frank is absolutely correct.

He was utterly petrified.

He was completely rigid and his feet set in concrete, just like the new slide at the Stonebridge adventure playground.

[Jon Saxon]

Fair play to Parcel Force: if he could fight as well as he could talk, Joe Louis & Muhammad Ali would be at numbers 2 & 3 in the all-time HW rankings.

He had me genuinely thinking he was going to tank Haye! It was like some Derren Brown shìt!

I wish there was a like button on this forum.

He had me convinced he was "a puncher" overnight

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Did he really throw that many punches against Haye?

All I can remember is him standing there like a startled pheasant with a wide eyed look of abject terror & doing nothing else.

Poor Parcel Force; Warren has really roasted him there & Frank is absolutely correct.

He was utterly petrified.

He was completely rigid and his feet set in concrete, just like the new slide at the Stonebridge adventure playground.

[gp.]

When Audley says "Not fulfilling my goals to be a multi-belt world champion does hurt a bit, I can’t lie" , do you think that means that he counts the WBF title as meaning he was a one belt world champion?

It's an odd choice of phrase otherwise. A bit like if Tim Henman were to say "I regret that I never managed to win Wimbledon more than once."

I think it's got absolutely nothing to do with the WBF title and he is probably referring to a "goal" that he had long before he even knew he'd fight for the WBF title.
A more accurate Henman comparison might be to say "never fulfilled my goal of becoming a multiple-Grand Slam winner".........tbh, I can not remember if Henman ever won one of the big 4. I don't think he did. He managed 4 Wimbledon Semi-Finals (his best surface), which if you ask me was a fantastic achievement. His best shot came against Ivanisovic - in the semi final, in the year that Goran only ended up in the tournament on a "Wild Card".....to be fair tho, Goran went on and won the thing in some fairytale style. I was just thinking about that yesterday ironically.
You could reasonably argue, that were it not for Pete Sampras, Henman probably would have won at least one Wimbledon.

Henman didn't; that's the point. It's odd to say "I've failed in my dream to be a multiple whatever" when you haven't even managed to become a single whatever.

[bripez]

Hi is a rum lad is Audley.

After all them racists gave him funding to box full time around the world then a £1m tv deal to box a bunch of divvies, he then won a Southern Area title fight and they gave him a European belt !

[ILikeBeer]

All a bit unnecessary at the end of the day, isn't it?

Do we really care what Audley's opinions on the Eubanks is? He is hardly relevant.

[bripez]

All a bit unnecessary at the end of the day, isn't it?

Do we really care what Audley's opinions on the Eubanks is? He is hardly relevant.

If he had something to say then he should have picked the phone up.

However, he decides to write a letter and instead of posting it he puts it on a website for the whole world to read - he loves any publicity to Fraudley.

[boxingknockout]

Lord, Audley got (rightly) roasted. Judging how easily he folded when he got touched with a punch; I think he will be sleeping for weeks after that beat down

Given the facts, I have no idea why he thought it was a good idea to write a post like that. Just nuts. What did he think would come of it????

Was he ridiculously high at the time? Has he got advanced pugilistica dementia?

[TheGman]

Also, didn't Matchroom's Prizefighter give him the comeback and gateway to the Haye PPV fight ?

Their show paved the way for him to become very rich for throwing three jabs.

I dare say it's a full circle, that Haye laid him flat out - after him & Froch were booted off the BBC to make way for A-farce.

He fought sprott for eurooean title and was about 1 minute away from another defeat and sprung this left hook out of nowere and KOed sprott,it was a freak of nature shot which then landed him a shot at haye were he was like a rabbit in headlights for 3 rounds till haye sprung into action and gave audley a flurey of punches which gave audley a big stringey snotbout of his nose,he is a embarrasment to british boxing always has been always will be even against price and wilder the little pussy didnt want to fight,i find it so hard to believe that someone who won a gold medal in sydney was so scared of fighting

[TheGman]

Lord, Audley got (rightly) roasted. Judging how easily he folded when he got touched with a punch; I think he will be sleeping for weeks after that beat down

Given the facts, I have no idea why he thought it was a good idea to write a post like that. Just nuts. What did he think would come of it????

Was he ridiculously high at the time? Has he got advanced pugilistica dementia?

Hahaha he will sleep till the summer ha

[ILikeBeer]

All a bit unnecessary at the end of the day, isn't it?

Do we really care what Audley's opinions on the Eubanks is? He is hardly relevant.

If he had something to say then he should have picked the phone up.

However, he decides to write a letter and instead of posting it he puts it on a website for the whole world to read - he loves any publicity to Fraudley.

It doesn't mean we have to give him it though, does it?