Audley Harrison - What happened?

he did fufill his potential.....prizefighter champ

 

He had none

 

He's a pacifist.

 

He had a very,very amateur style even as a pro that was always going to be difficult to warm him to fans & the BBC deal which put him off the casuals big time.No edge of the seat or wow factor even against journeymen.HW is about hype especially it just never got going for him never would do.

Agreed very awkward but has always been gun shy & as you know at HW that fact alone will be exposed big time quickly unless you have real one punch KO power.

Bloody good talker & a local fighter to me at least he made some decent coin.

To manage him PR wise a dream....gold medalist it got him the BBC deal good luck to him.

 

He was scared of taking a punch

 

He actually was, no heart when he stepped up in class.

 

He tried to manage himself and would not listen to any one early on, thus he probably pissed most people off who could have giving him a lot of help. Also he looked in awful shape for a fair number of his early fights, guess he just thought he could turn up and win without a problem, but this also im sure pissed people off as he was not taking it that seriously, or that's the way it looked.

 

:good spot on, he always appeared to lack confidence and ready to **** his pants.

 

His style did seem far more suited to the amateur game than the pro, but lets not forget when he won the gold medal he was 29 years old - now I'm not sure how old his opponents were in his olympic medal run, but lets not forget many boxers in the olympics are fairly young.

The fact he won the gold medal meant that if he didn't win a world title as a pro, it was always going to mean he would be seen as a bit of a let down. Looking past the gold medal let's not forget the man won British and European titles.

What I don't understand about Audley, was why he was gun shy and sometimes it seemed he was almost afraid to pull the trigger. Some performances he would get right into it (look at when he went after Danny Williams in 3 rounds) then in other performances (the Haye fight being the most famous example) he'd near on having an anxiety attack at the thought of throwing a punch.

 

Any fighter coming out of any Olympics as a gold medalist not proclaiming to be a potential world champion would be shooting themselves in the foot.:good

 

Too true he talked the talk many times but couldn't back it up gun shy & exposed.If he wasn't a pro fighter would of made a great salesman step forward the hype v Haye!