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Goz wrote:Will the Pole be vacating then? Is that much even confirmed?

Yes Pole is Vacating. Harrison will be fighting against someone else for the title!

leforge wrote:

Goz wrote:Will the Pole be vacating then? Is that much even confirmed?

Yes Pole is Vacating. Harrison will be fighting against someone else for the title!

I'll keep an eye on my mobile then!

kingfinn wrote:Fury v Harrison - surely having the english heavyweight belt makes him a half realistic challenger for a european title shot even though he isnt in the EBU rankings.

If you aint ranked in the top20 you aint eligible. Simple.

1 Alexander POVETKIN (RU)
2 Nicolai VALOUEV (RU/AT)
3 Tomasz ADAMEK (PL)
4 Francesco PIANETA
5 Sam SEXTON (GB)
6 Dennis BAKHTOV (RU)
7 Martin ROGAN (GB)
8 Michael SPROTT (GB)
9 Audley HARRISON (GB)
10 Maxim MASLOV (RU)
11 Andrzej WAWRZYK (PL)
12 Vladimir VIRCHIS (UA/DE)
13 Danny WILLIAMS (GB)
14 Oleg PLATOV (UA/AT)
15 Ondrey PALA (CZ)
16 Robert HELENIUS (FI)
17 Claus BERTINO (DK)
18 Paolo VIDOZ (IT)
19 Timo HOFFMANN (DE)
20 Tomasz BONIN (PL)

These are rankings as of Feb 2010 (the latest ones.)

I would like Sprott to get the chance!

jameswilson wrote:

kingfinn wrote:Fury v Harrison - surely having the english heavyweight belt makes him a half realistic challenger for a european title shot even though he isnt in the EBU rankings.

If you aint ranked in the top20 you aint eligible. Simple.

1 Alexander POVETKIN (RU)
2 Nicolai VALOUEV (RU/AT)
3 Tomasz ADAMEK (PL)
4 Francesco PIANETA
5 Sam SEXTON (GB)
6 Dennis BAKHTOV (RU)
7 Martin ROGAN (GB)
8 Michael SPROTT (GB)
9 Audley HARRISON (GB)
10 Maxim MASLOV (RU)
11 Andrzej WAWRZYK (PL)
12 Vladimir VIRCHIS (UA/DE)
13 Danny WILLIAMS (GB)
14 Oleg PLATOV (UA/AT)
15 Ondrey PALA (CZ)
16 Robert HELENIUS (FI)
17 Claus BERTINO (DK)
18 Paolo VIDOZ (IT)
19 Timo HOFFMANN (DE)
20 Tomasz BONIN (PL)

These are rankings as of Feb 2010 (the latest ones.)

I'd say bar 2 of those, Harrison should if on form be favourite to beat to the rest of thsoe fighters.

Surely if sosnowski has been given a fight against 1 of the klits, if harrison wins the ebu belt he is in with a very real chance of a world title fight against one of them as well.

kingfinn wrote:

jameswilson wrote:

kingfinn wrote:Fury v Harrison - surely having the english heavyweight belt makes him a half realistic challenger for a european title shot even though he isnt in the EBU rankings.

If you aint ranked in the top20 you aint eligible. Simple.

1 Alexander POVETKIN (RU)
2 Nicolai VALOUEV (RU/AT)
3 Tomasz ADAMEK (PL)
4 Francesco PIANETA
5 Sam SEXTON (GB)
6 Dennis BAKHTOV (RU)
7 Martin ROGAN (GB)
8 Michael SPROTT (GB)
9 Audley HARRISON (GB)
10 Maxim MASLOV (RU)
11 Andrzej WAWRZYK (PL)
12 Vladimir VIRCHIS (UA/DE)
13 Danny WILLIAMS (GB)
14 Oleg PLATOV (UA/AT)
15 Ondrey PALA (CZ)
16 Robert HELENIUS (FI)
17 Claus BERTINO (DK)
18 Paolo VIDOZ (IT)
19 Timo HOFFMANN (DE)
20 Tomasz BONIN (PL)

These are rankings as of Feb 2010 (the latest ones.)

I'd say bar 2 of those, Harrison should if on form be favourite to beat to the rest of thsoe fighters.

Which 2?
I'd favour Valuev (just), Povetkin (Easy), Adamek (easy), Pianeta (probably), Andrzej WAWRZYK (Easily) and Helenius (Easily)

Pulev will surely be ranked after his 8th fight?...

iamasadlittleboy wrote:

kingfinn wrote:

jameswilson wrote:
If you aint ranked in the top20 you aint eligible. Simple.

1 Alexander POVETKIN (RU)
2 Nicolai VALOUEV (RU/AT)
3 Tomasz ADAMEK (PL)
4 Francesco PIANETA
5 Sam SEXTON (GB)
6 Dennis BAKHTOV (RU)
7 Martin ROGAN (GB)
8 Michael SPROTT (GB)
9 Audley HARRISON (GB)
10 Maxim MASLOV (RU)
11 Andrzej WAWRZYK (PL)
12 Vladimir VIRCHIS (UA/DE)
13 Danny WILLIAMS (GB)
14 Oleg PLATOV (UA/AT)
15 Ondrey PALA (CZ)
16 Robert HELENIUS (FI)
17 Claus BERTINO (DK)
18 Paolo VIDOZ (IT)
19 Timo HOFFMANN (DE)
20 Tomasz BONIN (PL)

These are rankings as of Feb 2010 (the latest ones.)

I'd say bar 2 of those, Harrison should if on form be favourite to beat to the rest of thsoe fighters.

Which 2?
I'd favour Valuev (just), Povetkin (Easy), Adamek (easy), Pianeta (probably), Andrzej WAWRZYK (Easily) and Helenius (Easily)

Pulev will surely be ranked after his 8th fight?...

Povetkin and Adamek are the ones i would have as clear favourites, i think Valuev would get out pointed with relative ease Audleys very skilled and its going land scoring shots all night and valuev hasnt got the power to take him out..

Audley beats Valuev? Coleman Barrett had him going into his shell for a while. Valuev would bring out the full A Force tortoise.

Doubt very much that Audley would go anywhere near Valuev.

I read Valuev will rematch Haye next. I hope Audley fights either Pianetta or Sprott or Rogan would be good.

good job this fight is off. fraudley doesn't deserve a ebu title shot

MrBoxingUK2 wrote:good job this fight is off. fraudley doesn't deserve a ebu title shot

This particular fight is off, but the title shot is not. Audley will face the highest-ranked available challenger.

MrBoxingUK2 wrote:good job this fight is off. fraudley doesn't deserve a ebu title shot

He's getting it one it sounds like though..... against probably a worst opponent than Sosnowski.

oliverfennell wrote:

MrBoxingUK2 wrote:good job this fight is off. fraudley doesn't deserve a ebu title shot

This particular fight is off, but the title shot is not. Audley will face the highest-ranked available challenger.

any half decent heavyweight will beat audley

stujones wrote:

MrBoxingUK2 wrote:good job this fight is off. fraudley doesn't deserve a ebu title shot

He's getting it one it sounds like though..... against probably a worst opponent than Sosnowski.

We dont yet who the opponent is good be better.

I'd like to see Harrison v Helenius, great stuff!!

I can imagine Barry Hearn selling a couple of thousand tickets to Polish fans over here so maybe the best solution out of the top 20 would be Andrzej WAWRZYK, he has a fight coming up so would already be in training.

exittored wrote:I can imagine Barry Hearn selling a couple of thousand tickets to Polish fans over here so maybe the best solution out of the top 20 would be Andrzej WAWRZYK, he has a fight coming up so would already be in training.

They can put the pole Prozka the Eu middle champ on the bill instead of that opponent.

deadpan wrote:Audley beats Valuev? Coleman Barrett had him going into his shell for a while. Valuev would bring out the full A Force tortoise.

lol what for 3 seconds before being slumped against the ropes wondering where he was.

Id hedge my bets that coleman hits harder than valuev or at least throws more fast hard combinations than valuev.

If it wasnt a little bit of an insult for valuev to be involed in a fight of this size then i think it would be a great match up.

leforge wrote:

stujones wrote:

MrBoxingUK2 wrote:good job this fight is off. fraudley doesn't deserve a ebu title shot

He's getting it one it sounds like though..... against probably a worst opponent than Sosnowski.

We dont yet who the opponent is good be better.

Who realistically is a better European fighter than Sosnowski is not eyeing up a world title fight?

I would be extrememly surprised if the likes of Valuev, Adamek, Povetkin would go for it..... who else in Europe (excluding the Klitchsko's also) is better than Sosnowski?

I aint saying he is the second coming, and Klitchsko will smash him. But he beats Pianeta, Sexton, Rogan etc who are among the up echoleons in the EBU rankings.

Will we get Williams vs Harrison 3.... Hearn wanted it before, it didn't work. Williams somehow still has a top 20 EBU ranking.

stujones wrote:

leforge wrote:

stujones wrote: He's getting it one it sounds like though..... against probably a worst opponent than Sosnowski.

We dont yet who the opponent is good be better.

Who realistically is a better European fighter than Sosnowski is not eyeing up a world title fight?

I would be extrememly surprised if the likes of Valuev, Adamek, Povetkin would go for it..... who else in Europe (excluding the Klitchsko's also) is better than Sosnowski?

I aint saying he is the second coming, and Klitchsko will smash him. But he beats Pianeta, Sexton, Rogan etc who are among the up echoleons in the EBU rankings.

Will we get Williams vs Harrison 3.... Hearn wanted it before, it didn't work. Williams somehow still has a top 20 EBU ranking.

Daft question but what are the EBU ranking based on?

kingfinn wrote:Id hedge my bets that coleman hits harder than valuev

Even allowing for what presumably is your point that Valuev is a relative non-puncher, can you honestly envisage Colin Kenna going the distance with him?

jameswilson wrote:

kingfinn wrote:Fury v Harrison - surely having the english heavyweight belt makes him a half realistic challenger for a european title shot even though he isnt in the EBU rankings.

If you aint ranked in the top20 you aint eligible. Simple.

1 Alexander POVETKIN (RU)
2 Nicolai VALOUEV (RU/AT)
3 Tomasz ADAMEK (PL)
4 Francesco PIANETA
5 Sam SEXTON (GB)
6 Dennis BAKHTOV (RU)
7 Martin ROGAN (GB)
8 Michael SPROTT (GB)
9 Audley HARRISON (GB)
10 Maxim MASLOV (RU)
11 Andrzej WAWRZYK (PL)
12 Vladimir VIRCHIS (UA/DE)
13 Danny WILLIAMS (GB)
14 Oleg PLATOV (UA/AT)
15 Ondrey PALA (CZ)
16 Robert HELENIUS (FI)
17 Claus BERTINO (DK)
18 Paolo VIDOZ (IT)
19 Timo HOFFMANN (DE)
20 Tomasz BONIN (PL)

These are rankings as of Feb 2010 (the latest ones.)

dont worry ....th usual crowd go trolling round linking Primo Fisting with every boxer from mayweather to ali...

its getting very boring.