Audley May Consider Retirement: "I Have To Reflect"
By Chris LaBate
Audley Harrison may walk away from boxing after a disappointing three round TKO loss to WBA heavyweight champion David Haye on Saturday in Manchester. Harrison barely got anything going and was overwhelmed by power punches from Haye in the third. Harrison did very little in the three rounds of the fight. He says the strategy was to make Haye throw his punches for the first few rounds and then turn up the heat in the second half of the fight.
"I didn't really get going to be honest," Harrison said. "My plan was to take it into the late rounds and then put pressure on David. He caught me with a good shot, it felt like it was behind the head, but I'm not going to make any excuses."
"I honestly, wholeheartedly went to the training camp believing I could win, walked out there believing I could win. I started a bit slow but the plan was to take David into the later rounds but he caught me with a good shot as can happen in heavyweight boxing."
Harrison, a 2000 Olympic gold medal winner and 39-years-old, will sit down and reflect on everything in his career and then make a decision on whether he wants to continue fighting.
"I've got to sit down and reflect, I had a great training camp, you know I really put the work in with the team and I felt really good. I really felt this was going to be my night but it wasn't to be. I'm going to have to sit down and see what I'm going to do. Obviously my mission is incomplete, my goal is not realized," Harrison said.
