How many times has Audrey Harrison fooled you?

[Box-Office]

Torn pectoral.

But yeah if he beat Haye that would have been the ultimate rocky story.

Considered a joke, win prize fighter, tear his pec against Sprott and getting beaten handily and then landing a huge punch in the last round resulting in a highlight reel KO, then doing the impossible and beating Haye for the title.

Sadly this isn't the movies.

Oh yeah torn pectoral, my bad.

When I watched that KO of Sprott I was so pumped, the commentator did a hell of a job too. Mesmerizing to watch.

It wouldn't really have been a Rocky story cuz if you look at it he was "supposed" to do it, so he was really trying to fulfill what was expected when he won Olympic Gold. A Rocky story would be someone like Steve Robinson (Wales) with a 2 days notice and how he was really just a journeyman and doing the things he did.

[jas]

Zero. .

[HughJass]

I can't be the only one that has fallen for his talk/delusions.

I always knew he ****** but I must admit he got me with the David Haye fight, I knew it in the back of my mind but yeah he somehow convinced me with his talk.

I really did feel embarrassed he roped me in with his ''Yes I can'', ''Its my destiny'' talk. Only for him to go out and throw was it one punch over 3 rounds?


He unbeatable in Prizefighter doe

I ain't scared to admit his trash talking of Haye left me completely fooled.I even put a cheeky £5 bet on ordinary to land a huge bomb on that sexy ass chin of Hayes lol

[typeone]

Your not alone he suck me in quite a few times! I think there going to find it hard to match him with someone as terrible as he is.... He has no credibility at all in my book not in the professional game any way

[aretrospective]

I thought he would do big things in the HW division before he lost on points to Danny Williams. I only watched highlights, but I'd read that the fight was almost without action and from the highlights he had looked a little scared. This gave him his 'level' in my head.

I wasn't convinced at all by his talk to be honest. To me he sounded like some kind of religious preacher, trying to convince himself more than anyone else! Or he could have just been doing his part to sell the fight....

His rhetoric made it even funnier to watch the way he 'fought'. He claimed to have been waiting until later in the fight for Haye to tire before he 'went to work'. Haye was beng economical with his punches (to make the fight go longer than 1) and Audley was eating everything that Haye threw. Who is going to tire more in this scenario?!!?!

[gmc_rfc_06]

He didn't get me on the Haye fight, because Haye was vastly superior in every aspect.

However, the hype did make me think he would give it a decent go. The non-UK people won't even know just how massive that fight was. It was getting daily coverage on not just the sports channels but the national news and then there was the build up programs.....you know how 24/7 can fool people into thinking mismatches might actually be close? The Harrison-Haye build up made 24-7 look like nothing.

[- Ram Raid -]

On the principle of the matter I boycotted the Haye fight. I found the whole thing insulting. I didn't know at the time but one of my mates had gotten me a ticket and tried surprising me with it by asking if I was going to the fight. When I replied, "Going? No. I'm not even watching it. It's a joke that I'm not finding funny" he sold it on without mentioning it till later.

I put this in another thread but I'll repeat it here. I was aware early on that Harrison had studied sports psychology at Brunel under Costas Karageorghis and Peter Terry prior to winning his Olympic gold medal, so I understood how he was getting himself into a mindset where he seemed to have supreme confidence in what he was saying.

It was evident though that he was completely disregarding techniques that help athletes make very accurate self assessments. So not only was he descending boxing to the level of farce (granted it doesn't need much help) but he was doing the same with sports psychology by using it to feed his delusion and/or fleece punters out of their cash.

So I've never been fooled by the man, but I can understand why some has, particularly with the way that British papers built that fight up to sell copy. From the off the whole thing was a scam.

[Lullaby]

He got me with the Haye fight.

[Pugilist95]

Once (the haye fight).

[Dirk Diggler UK]

How could anyone have been fooled by the Haye fight?

The two guys were friends and the whole thing was scripted.