Comments Thread For: Audley Harrison: Dis*****g The Disrepute

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Audley Harrison is once again coming off a poor performance, or non-performance, after losing to American's Deontay Wilder, 28-0 (28), in a single round at Sheffield’s Motorpoint Arena on Saturday night. As usual, the big southpaw said all the right things pre-fight, but the bout itself lasted just over a minute. The fans in attendance booed him when “A-Force” walked to the ring, as it was announced and when he was in distress, the same fans who trot out the old clichés: ‘I respect every man who gets into the ring’, ‘It is a life and death sport’, when a fighter gets injured or dies. Truth be told, he was not good enough on the night and was knocked out by the younger man and better fighter. The LA-based Londoner now faces retirement and decades of looking back on a professional career that failed to reach the heights of his amateur career.

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[Weebler I]

Audley v Keys...make it happen

[Southpaw16]

This is actually a very good, well thought out article.

[junior gong]

Audley v Keys...make it happen

My money is on tarantula cuffs!

[Cloud]

I thought Keyes was on fire that night but the total crapping on Audley was rather harsh IMHO.

[charlieg]

This is actually a very good, well thought out article.

It is, although I'd dispute the assertion that Audley wasn't down.

If you are held up by the ropes, you are deemed to be down. He was obviously held up by being slumped against the corner, and barely held up at that with his backside inches from the floor.

Not that it made much difference. Audley has no business fighting any more. He's proven time and time again that he's just a bad pro boxer. When he has the physical advantages, he's OK. When he doesn't, he's screwed.

He never learned the most basic tenant in boxing - that a static target is the easiest to hit. He hangs his face behind an open guard, thinking he can dodge punches as he sees them, because he made a career of fighting bums who telegraph their shots often due to reaching [because they were smaller than him]. Dear in the headlights, he sees little, and time and time again is sparked by the 1st meaningful punch a dangerous opponent throws.

I don't think people have any issue with Audley being a domestic-level fighter. The problem is he's talked a huge game for so long, he's talked his way into countless opportunities, made a lot of money, and always taken the p*ss with his performance. He's good enough to win Prizefighter. That's it. If he hadn't spent a decade declaring his destiny, if he hadn't taken all that money from the BBC after the Olympics and fought bouncers, if he hadn't failed to throw a punch against Haye, etc etc. He's a national embarrassment and has been for years.

All it would take to win the fans over would be some humility, but he's not a humble person. We've never seen it from him. Just some faux apologies of how he knows he can do better. He's not humble, he can't fight, and boxing fans just want him to **** off and have done so for many years now.

[Neckodeemus]

It is, although I'd dispute the assertion that Audley wasn't down.

If you are held up by the ropes, you are deemed to be down. He was obviously held up by being slumped against the corner, and barely held up at that with his backside inches from the floor.
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Thanks for the reads guys etc. The BBBoC rules state that this situation is at the discretion of the ref, and whether he thinks the ropes are the only thing keeping you up. As Audley was turning away, O'Connor had the right to call it or not. Some people think that it should be called when your arse hits the ropes, but some fighters, i.e. Michael Gomez, used to sit along the ropes, bob and weave, then move away. Audley should have removed all of this by either touching the canvas with a glove or his knee. He didn't and left himself at the mercy of the ref's judgement call. By the time Audley really slumped, the ref had stepped in to administer the count.

As for the stoppage, if you get up past eight then you run the risk of what's called 'being counted out in the act of rising', so it was hard to dispute that stoppage. Again, this isn't always applied to the letter of the law.

[anonymous2.0]

Audley v Keys...make it happen

Keys' only hope is to knock Audley out in 1.

[ddangerous]

Somehow, Audley will get another big fight.