Audley keeps his purse

[Spud]

I see no problems at all Audley Harrison receiving his fight purse. The fight should have never happened in the first place and thus its the TV executives and promoters problem not Audley's.

[oliverfennell]

As for Fraudley's punishment... That is self-evident. He will never get another major world titleshot. His dreams have been dashed.

And he has no-one to blame but himself.

Its a never say never world though. Ray Austin came within a whisker of a second world title tilt and he fought equally as pathetically.

Tony Thompson also.

There was nothing pathetic about Thompson's effort. He came to win, and did win one or two early rounds, posed some questions, lasted until the 11th and took his lumps along the way.

[UpperCrust]

I was glad to see that Harrison was allowed to keep his purse. Just because if he had been stripped of it, it would have opened up a helluva can of worms for the sport of boxing...
And the question becomes, where does it all end?

Should we keep Mr X purse because he didn't throw enough punches?
Should we keep Mr X purse because he was too cautious?
Should we keep Mr X purse because he didn't engage enough?
Should we keep Mr X purse because there wasn't enough actonin the fight?

Can you see what I'm saying...
We might not argee with the way that a boxer went about a fight, that doesn't mean he should get his money took off him.

Fully agree with this- it would have set a dangerous precedent. If it had been withheld, there would be so many cases in the future where if fighters who had performed even worse (if that is possible!) had kept their purses people would complain of inconsistency.

[hitman_hatton1]

Look, he was the European champ so the shot at the title was fair

but you've gotta look at who he beat to win that title.

michael sprott.

a win some and lose some european journeyman.

how the ebu sanctioned that i'll never know.

i was amazed it was an ebu title fight.

even the ebu sold out for the money in the end.

[oliverfennell]

Been a lot of poor EBU challengers in the past couple of years - Sprott, Pickering, Lawton, etc.