Comments Thread For: Audley May Consider Retirement: "I Have To Reflect"

[giacomino]

It was a silly matchup from the start. Just as are the Klitschko brothers matchups with a 38-year-old well past it Shannon Briggs and an inexperienced, 14-0 Dereck Chisora. None of the title challengers have/had a real chance

[badnewsbrown]

fraudley should be happy with all these paydays hes gotten after achieving naff all. 0. lucky man

[El Fenomeno]

That Vitali lover on page 1 is possibly the most biased poster I've seen on these forums.

[£-4-£]

Briggs beat Foreman you ******.

Lewis went life and death with Briggs. He was badly hurt several times and almost KTFO by Briggs.

Vitali is 40 years old and well past his prime. He dominated every second or every round and destroyed Briggs. It was a massacre. The fight should have been stopped. Rounds 6,7,8,9,10,12 were all 10-8 rounds. Prime Vitali would've KO'd Briggs.

Lewis was brutally KTFO by Rahman.
Wlad easily destroyed Rahman.

Lewis couldn't stop Levi Billups.
Vitali destroyed Levi Billups in 2 rounds.

Lewis went life and death with Mercer and got a controversial decision. Many people thought Mercer won that fight.

Wlad annihilated Mercer in 6 rounds. He became the first man to knockdown and KO Mercer.

Vitali dominated Lewis and scared him into retirement. That's a FACT.

you're using the accomplishments of 2 boxers (Wlad and Vitali) to counter against the achievements of 1 boxer (Lewis)? LOL, get a life you Klit-sucker.

Vitali's face was mauled by Lennox, end of.

And if Wlad ever fought Lennox, then Wlad's glass-chin would have been shattered in to a million grains of sand.

Fact: If Lennox ever landed a clean bomb on Wladimir's chin, he would die.
Fact: Even if Haye lands a clean bomb of Wladimir's chin, he would die.

[Dave Rado]

It was a silly matchup from the start. Just as are the Klitschko brothers matchups with a 38-year-old well past it Shannon Briggs and an inexperienced, 14-0 Dereck Chisora. None of the title challengers have/had a real chance

Briggs and Chisora would both knock Audley out in the first round. In any case, Haye fought Audley in preference to fighting Wlad, whereas Wlad tried to make fights with Haye, Povetkin, Adamek and Boystov before setting for Chisora, because all four of them turned him down. And Vitali tried to make fights with, and was turned down by, Haye, Valuev and Adamek, before settling for Briggs as a last resort. So your comparison is outright dishonest. There is simply no comparison. Haye fought Audley because he doesn't want to fight the Klitschkos, whereas the Klitschkos took the Briggs and Chisora fights because none of the top contenders, including Haye, were willing to fight them.

[Tiozzo]

Audley should go hide himself after talking so much **** and delivering a non-performance. ****ing joker.

But everyone who knows anything about Audley's career knew exactly what was going to happen (except that I was surprised it lasted three rounds, but that was only because Haye was incredibly tentative for the first two). As a pro, Audley has always fought as if he was trying to impersonate a rabbit. So the real joker was Haye for taking the fight, and the media for making out it was a legitimate fight for him to take. Blaming Audley for fighting like a rabbit is like blaming a leopard for having spots. That's just the way he has always been since he turned pro, so anyone who claims to be surprised is either ignorant or disingenuous.

you extrapolate too much, and that is something you constantly do my friend

of course the domination was expected, but even by Audley's standards, it was a non-performance

the guy talked a good fight, but he didn't even unleash one, just one power punch in 2 + rounds

all he did was throw 3 shy jabs, no conviction whatsoever behind those

no wonder the british board is now considering taking his purse away

[Dave Rado]

you extrapolate too much, and that is something you constantly do my friend

of course the domination was expected, but even by Audley's standards, it was a non-performance

the guy talked a good fight, but he didn't even unleash one, just one power punch in 2 + rounds

all he did was throw 3 shy jabs, no conviction whatsoever behind those

no wonder the british board is now considering taking his purse away

He didn't throw any power punches because he was scared of being countered. He always fights like a scared rabbit, so what happened was entirely predictable. Obviously he would look even more like a scared rabbit than he usual does against the first world class fighter he has ever faced, whom he knew has a huge punch and blinding speed - that was also entirely predictable. I didn't expect him to fight any better than he did, and I expected Haye to knock him out in the first round. Paradoxically, if Haye had KO'd Audley in the first, as he could have done if he'd wanted to, Harrison wouldn't be getting nearly as much criticism. After all, no one threatened to withdraw Norton's purse when he froze against Foreman, or Spinks' purse when he froze against Tyson. But they were both KO'd in the first round.

[Tiozzo]

He didn't throw any power punches because he was scared of being countered. He always fights like a scared rabbit, so what happened was entirely predictable. Obviously he would look even more like a scared rabbit than he usual does against the first world class fighter he has ever faced, whom he knew has a huge punch and blinding speed - that was also entirely predictable. I didn't expect him to fight any better than he did, and I expected Haye to knock him out in the first round. Paradoxically, if Haye had KO'd Audley in the first, as he could have done if he'd wanted to, Harrison wouldn't be getting nearly as much criticism. After all, no one threatened to withdraw Norton's purse when he froze against Foreman, or Spinks' purse when he froze against Tyson. But they were both KO'd in the first round.

so it was entirely predictable that all Harrisson would throw in almost 3 rounds of action would be... 3 jabs ?

whatever

***and Norton, although he was tentative with that huge puncher in front of him, was actually fighting back

and Norton was ko'ed in the second round

Spinks wasn't given the chance to do that (fight back that is)

[Dave Rado]

so it was entirely predictable that all Harrisson would throw in almost 3 rounds of action would be... 3 jabs ?

The exact number of jabs was unpredictable. The fact that he wouldn't throw any meaningful punches was predictable. The fact that he'd fight like a scared rabbit was predictable. And the real surprise was not the number of punches he threw, but the fact that it lasted so long.

[Tiozzo]

The exact number of jabs was unpredictable. The fact that he wouldn't throw any meaningful punches was predictable. The fact that he'd fight like a scared rabbit was predictable. And the real surprise was not the number of punches he threw, but the fact that it lasted so long.

as I said... whatever