Anyone else feel sorry for Audley Harrison?

[bojangles1987]

Hell no. If he had gone out on his shield giving his all, I would. Pro athletes are paid lots of money to do what they do, Audley deserves every criticism and all the mocking he will get.

[Davros?]

audley harrison fought david haye? since when?

Well he did throw a punch, that is pretty high work rate for Audley through 3 rounds.

[larcom]

i see wot u r saying especially about his wife.didnt pay for the fight-thank god,but i would have enjoyed seeing audley win if only to hear davids excuses.i espect haye as a fighter but cant warm to his trash talk.just annoyed that after this debacle all the u.k sports/casual boxing fans who bought into all the hype and paid for it are vowing not to buy pay per view any more.its reinforced their opinion that boxing aint what it used to be,especially the heavyweights.sky are happy biggin up haye and khan fighting bums when there are cracking fights coming up i.e froch/marquez/williams/bradley

[Davros?]

I don’t feel sorry for his performance more for the hatred and humiliation that he has received in front of the British people. Harrison will have to stay in America for a while before coming back to Britain.

[Dirk Diggler UK]

I dont get what people expected Audley to do? Walk Haye down throwin 100 punches a round. Audley has always thrown 1 (counter) punch at a time.

Haye didnt throw ***** for 2 rounds either. His performance was just as disgraceful imo

[gingeralbino]

I don’t feel sorry for his performance more for the hatred and humiliation that he has received in front of the British people. Harrison will have to stay in America for a while before coming back to Britain.

u think they'll let him back in?

When he fills out the forms on the visa and he says "boxer" as his profession they'll deny him entry for lying on the application!

[Fish_Scotland]

I can't believe they put these two on SBO, yet they won't show Carl Froch who is always in good fights and fights the best.



I don't know why everyone is blaming Audley. The people who paid 15 quid to watch Audley should blame themselves.

I paid £15 to see the end of Audleys career. (I buy all PPV, can't get enough)I expected nothing less than I got. Before the build up I hated Audley simply because he is delusional. In the build-up though due to Haye making those "gang ****" comments I actually gained a little respect for Audley as he came across well in comparison to the idiot Haye. I don't feel sorry for him however. If you look at his pro career and then consider his payday of £1.5m there is no need to feel sorry for him for sure.

You'd only have to have seen 1 Harrison fight, any Harrison fight to know this was a mis-match. So for those complaining you have no legs to stand on.

[Ray*]

I hate the way he talked, cried about how this was his redemption at the British public who crucified him in the past, I hate the fact that he even got the chance, But to get in there at do nothing when this was his chance to finally shut people up just irritates me, Blame Haye all we want but this does hide the fact that Harrison was a bloody disgrace who shouldn't be a pro boxer no more.

[yuppie]

I felt sorry for him too, simply put Audley is no where near the same class as Haye, he only just won a european belt by getting his ass kicked for 11 rounds then landing that KO punch. I get the feeling that Audley was trying to replicate that performance (against Sprott) by just absorbing all of Hayes punches to hopefully land a bomb in the later rounds. Which sadly equated to him holding back waiting for an opening..obviously realising how difficult that plan was going to be and basically looking like a fighter who was fighting well out his league.
I agree and disagree with all the criticism, on one hand you have all the casuals who expect every fight to be some epic battle where fighters fight till the brink of death and seem to be suprised when its really one sided. Then on the other hand, as a serious boxing fan you can understand all the factors than make a boxer give the performance that Audley gave.
To be fair, even before the fight i think most people got ****** into the hype, did you really think Audley was going to match Haye in any department? This is one of those fights where you knew the outcome, if Audley did decide to **** with Haye he would of either got his ass kicked early or basically would of missed and would of probably would of connected with the same amount of punches he did in the fight anyway.

[Ray*]

u think they'll let him back in?

When he fills out the forms on the visa and he says "boxer" as his pr

ofession they'll deny him entry for lying on the application!

Seriously yes!!! His visa or passport as a "boxer or prizefighter" need to be revoke and changed to a normal 32 page Passport instead of the 48 pages for him.