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All I keep reading & hearing is about what a puncher Harrison is & what will happen when he detonates his new found Left hook off Haye's chin.

Fair question in light of what happend to Michael Sprott during his rematch with Harrison, but really, is Audley all that powerful?

Why aren't people asking what will happen when the hard hitting Haye connects with Harrison's chin?

I've watched Audley struggle to dispatch average cruiserweights for years, then all of a sudden, he lands one great punch on the money & suddenly, it's as if Jack Dempsey, Mike Tyson & Earnie Shavers have been merged into one.

You can't write him off totally, but I'll be flabbergasted at anything other than a comprehensive Haye win.

your not wrong :!:

haye does flatter him or more like flatten D

I guess some people are trying to hype the fight to casual fans to make it seem more even.

Not only does Audley not generate serious power relative to his size, his accuracy is appalling. I've lost count of the number of telegraphed left hands that I've seen him throw that land in the next county. And his 'speed' is nonexistant too.

Luckily for him, noone will get a chance to see how bad he is in this fight.

So is Audley working the door at Yates in Liverpool?

Well, there's a vacancy because Earnie has moved back to the States.

He got tired of me, Neri and Smally turning up every week to shake his hand.

Ah, that explains it - I wondered why he moved back :-)

Well if Audley wins he will be on a par with Lennox Lewis. Not my words but his.

“I will go down with Lennox Lewis in terms of achievement when I beat Haye,” he told the Daily Star.

“It will be one of the best comebacks ever, it will be mission accomplished for me. I am not in boxing to be the best since sliced bread, I just want to win the world title,” he added.

WelshDevil wrote:Well if Audley wins he will be on a par with Lennox Lewis. Not my words but his.

“I will go down with Lennox Lewis in terms of achievement when I beat Haye,” he told the Daily Star.

“It will be one of the best comebacks ever, it will be mission accomplished for me. I am not in boxing to be the best since sliced bread, I just want to win the world title,” he added.

In terms of being an Olympic Gold medallist and then a World title holder.

Asterix wrote:

WelshDevil wrote:Well if Audley wins he will be on a par with Lennox Lewis. Not my words but his.

“I will go down with Lennox Lewis in terms of achievement when I beat Haye,” he told the Daily Star.

“It will be one of the best comebacks ever, it will be mission accomplished for me. I am not in boxing to be the best since sliced bread, I just want to win the world title,” he added.

In terms of being an Olympic Gold medallist and then a World title holder.

I hope he means that as he has along way to go interms of unifying belts and making defences to be on a par.

Haye is wide open...thats his style

against anyone who has half a dig...its going to be interesting

thats why Haye is the only champ creating entertainment atm

Audley's whole pro career has been a carefully planned facade. The time has come to unleash the fighting machine that Audley has kept under wraps like a beast in the broom cupboarrd.
I fear for David. He has never encountered anything like the A Gale Force wind that will blow into the ring on Saturday night. wear your wellies David 'cos you're entering deep waters..


Your's sincerely

A Smith

Syntax Error wrote:I've watched Audley struggle to dispatch average cruiserweights for years.

Who are these cruiserweights? Please name them.

(I'll give you Negus, Krence and Calloway - even though they were heavyweights at the time - but they were a very long time ago and the kinds of opponents appropriate for a novice prospect)

Audley Harrison turned pro on a balmy night in May 2001. A year later, in December 2002, David Haye also made the switch and he quickly overtook his great friend and fellow Londoner. By 2007, as Harrison was coming to terms with a shock knockout defeat at the hands of Reading's Michael Sprott, Haye was the best cruiserweight in the world, blasting his way to stunning victories over French bull Jean-Marc Mormeck and Welsh giant Enzo Maccarinelli. Haye continued to prosper as he filled out to heavyweight, lifting the major WBA belt with a fine decision over Russian mammoth Nikolai Valuev in Germany last year and retaining with a nine-round pounding of Puerto Rico's John Ruiz earlier this year.
As for Harrison, he came back from Sprott in a dreary 10-rounder with little Brazilian George Arias, scraping home on points, and was then outgamed and outpointed by Belfast brawler Martin Rogan in 2008, a part-time fighter who drives taxis, but he finally came good with a last-gasp knockout in a rematch with Sprott for the European heavyweight title earlier this year in London. All of a sudden, against all the odds, Harrison was in the world rankings. This Saturday in Manchester, he challenges Haye in a rare all-British world heavyweight title showdown.
The two are no longer friends. They fell out after Haye bashed up Harrison in a Miami sparring years ago. "We had good sparring sessions," Haye told the Telegraph yesterday, which confirms that Haye dished out the most stick. Frankly, Harrison is lucky to get a shot but he's here now and we have to make the best of it. The big Wembley southpaw talks a good fight but has turned up to survive so many times in the past you scoff at his spiel. His chin also lacks substance. In contrast, Haye works hard, hits hard and truly believes in himself. His approach defines conviction.
This is a voluntary defence for the quick, aggressive muscled Bermondsey man as he counts down to an inevitable unification showdown with one or both of the Klitschko brothers - a gimmee, a personal thing, a chance to bury the hatchet in Harrison's oversized head. You know, Haye is nine years younger than the 39-year-old challenger and reckons that Harrison peaked in the Olympics back in 2000, where he won gold, and it does explain Harrison's surprisingly poor performances as a pro. Even Sprott was beating him in the rematch when he got caught in the 12th and last round. Harrison's long-suffering fans tell you that their man can whack because of it, but they should ask themselves this: how long would Haye have needed against Sprott, and he would not have needed two goes? They tell you that Haye is chinny when Harrison is the chinniest British heavyweight since Richard Dunn, floored five times by Muhammad Ali in his own despairing crack at the world heavyweight title, although Dunn had a real go. They tell you that Haye cannot handle southpaws, but if the limited Rogan manhandled the reluctant, wide-eyed Harrison, what will Haye do?
OK, Harrison has the speed, boxing ability (and the fear) to frustrate Haye for a few rounds but in the end there can only be one winner. Haye keeps the big punches coming as he powers his way to a middle-round stoppage.

You're doing a great job of analysis lately, King G. Much as I can see Harrison catching an over-confident Haye looping his right, that's a picture in a textbook. In reality, in the presence of fear, I wouldn't be surprised if Harrison crosses himself on the ring walk, echoing Bruno-Tyson II. Frank had the tools to make it a tough night for Mike, but - brave as he was - the belief wasn't there.

Is Harrison trying to talk necessary belief into himself? How much, if any, is really in there? Haye's probably nervous, too, but nerves calm down if you can make it through the opening minute without any unwanted drama. I think Audley needs to unload early, because once Haye finds rhythm and confidence he'll have too much. At that point, all Harrison can do is peek-a-boo and hope for - going on his known aversion to commit - an unforced error. I'd be quite comfortable if I had a small bet on Haye by KO in under 4 minutes.