By Lem Satterfield
Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer thinks a heavyweight showdown between WBA champion David Haye (24-1, 22 KOs), and Olympic gold medal winner Audley Harrison (27-4, 20KOs), would be a "big, all-British showdown."
As previously reported on BoxingScene.com, Harrison accepted an offer worth £1million to fight Haye on November 13, with Sky pay-per-view carrying the fight. Harrison's side told UK publication, Daily Mail, they were waiting on Haye's team to finalize the deal.
Schaefer has received a lot of positive feedback on Haye-Harrison from the British press. Golden Boy promote Haye in the United States. Schaefer says the final word on a fight with Harrison will come from Haye and his manager/trainer Adam Booth.
"The British media was telling me that the English fans were pretty excited about Audley Harrison, and they think that it could become, in England, one of the great showdowns between two British fighters," said Schaefer to BoxingScene.com.
"They're both very outspoken and very charismatic, and so we will see. But ultimately, of course, it will be David and Adam Booth of Hayemaker Promotions dictating which way that it's going to go."
Lem Satterfield is the boxing editor at AOL FanHouse and the news editor at BoxingScene.com. To read more from Lem Satterfield, go to AOL FanHouse by Clicking Here.
