Im telling you now his Gold Medal is overlooked as a turning point when Britain exited the dark ages of the sport. The extra funding into the amateur system off the back of that lone gold has had great results. If you werent watching in the early 2000s you wont remember how **** it was. When Matt Skelton was at one stage our best hope for a heavyweight world title... Dont forget our only great heavy prior to that came from the canadian amateur system.
That he gets shat on all the time and maybe people should take a second look and realize he did some real good for british boxing
He was bettered suited to the amateurs and should’ve stayed there, didn’t he win the gold against a bunch of nobodies maybe paolo vidoz was his best win on the way to gold It was because of him boxing on the bbc is no more They paid him and the opponents were awful Funny thing is we almost had audley vs vitals at one point, how funny would that have been
To be fair he did change a lot for the amateurs with the funding etc etc. Did naff all in the pro ranks mind, and so have a lot of others before him. But lets be clear on one thing, he will always have his critics but please bear in mind that it takes balls to enter the square ring however good or bad one may be. But hey good luck to him in his future.
Bet you didn't know that he "sponsored" a university boxing night quite a few years back... After securing all the ticket money, he jus ****ed off and left it for dead.... Hardly the type of man to leave a legacy.
Marking two completed unrelated events as causational is something no one with a science background would do. Audley conning the BBC loving homo loaded BBC, to promote him off the back of amateur gold- is completely unrelated to all the great HWs we have today. The only link is indirect based on Audleys gold contributing towards the statistics that sport Boxing was judged against for England Boxing funding. That was only for 1 year in other words as a contributory factor in pounds and pence to amateur boxing!!! It’s everyone in team GB and all the pro trainers involved who deserve credit for the vast improvement in Domestic level HW boxing in the U.K. Well done to you all. A Farce is a footnote
As for the pro ranks, he put on like 3stone and had silk pyjama syndrome before he ever threw a punch in a pro ring, and then kept getting injured. He also discovered he didn't like being punched. Suddenly he was a (deluded) middle aged man.