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Terence wrote:I got it absolutely stunningly wrong with Big Aud'. By all accounts he was shit. Over 5 years of my life down the drain boxing wise. First fighter to let me down on such a monumental level. :(

...Cheers Aud'.

I'll still watch his fights though.

Edit the last bit out your post, why/how would you wanna watch another shit fight like that... Seriously, you must be a sick dude lol

I get the impression most people on here love to fly the flag for British boxing and feel they have been let down badly by Harrisons performance - Well the other Harrison wont let us down thats for sure - Even if a fighter loses, if he gives it his best shot he still gets respect for trying - Thats why people are so upset because Audley didnt, from what ive heard and that is letting his British fans down - On the positive side we do have champions to be very proud of who do go out every fight to do the business also champions in the making very hungry for a world title - Audley it seems wasnt hungry enough

Exactly wild, if i a boxer i would want to give it 110%, i'd feel if i was fighting in American that id wanna do my country proud. It comes within, but obviosuly he done it at the olympics why not now. Im gonna stop talking about him.

I feel for you Terance (& Audley's other fans), what an inglorious end of the road. Does anyone agree with me that - and I acknowledge that I am saying this with the benefit of hindsight - it may well be true that Audley simply won gold at the Sydney games by basically perfecting a points scoring way of boxing which, coupled with his massive height and reach advantages, enabled him to win the gold medal ?

In other words, a one-trick pony. Legendary trainer Cus D'Amato once suggested that it may be possible to train a non-boxer for one specific fight, against a specific opponent. In other words, don't train a man to be a boxer (thus being able to adapt to all styles), but train him to fight a specific way, against a specific opponent, one time only.

Whatever the merits of this interesting hypothesis, I think that with the way amateur boxing has been going over the years, it is inevitable that pro-rank flops like Audley will happen, because all the hype, and his pro career, is launched off the back of being a gold medallist, yet (for me) he didn't box and fight his way through the Olympic tournament, he went in with a plan, stuck to his point-scoring tactics, and ended up with the gold medal and a lucrative pro future mapped out.

I've followed Audley's progress in the pro ranks, being neither his biggest fan nor his harshest critic, and now the dust has settled, it's pretty clear that he can't, or he won't, just stand there and fight a guy despite the big physical advantages he has over almost every opponent he faces. Williams and Guinn were both smaller than him, and he's bottled it on both occasions. Sooner or later in the pro ranks you'll get found out and I think that 99% of boxing fans will agree that Audley, over the past couple of fights, has finally been "found out".