Where would a prime Audley Harrison fit in today’s HW scene

True, but that does not make Martin a great fighter by association.

 

That was Harrison's Buster Douglas.
Sprott summoned his inner "Buster Douglas " that night due to unforeseen hardships unknown to the public and would not be denied by any champion on this night.
Sprott felled Harrison with a monstrous blow and ruined Harrison for all future vultures who pecked at his mangled carcass.

 

He is decent. No one awful beats the guys that he does. He's middle of the pack.

 

He'd be looking awesome, beating up the lithuainian elite, however it all goes wrong once his team throws him in there with Dustin "the worm" Nichols, where Audley simply cannot keep up with the worms in and out movement, as he dances round him for several rounds before knocking Audley out cold with a check jab.

 

Tbf you dont win Gold and the European belt with NO talent
He wasnt great but thats harsh

 

He beat a bunch of nobodies. He won his second biggest fight because other guy's knee went and then lost his biggest fight getting bowled over within two rounds. He's a bum. We saw his best fight, he struggled to beat the guy that Wilder beat and we know Wilder only fights bums.
Can't wait to see Wilder v Charles Martin when the former goes on the comeback trail.

He won the Gold in a very weak Olympic year and amateur is very different to professional. The European belt is nothing, just a sort of preliminary belt to indicate you deserve a title shot. Of course when he got a title shot it was the worst title fight ever and he got KO'ed by Smoking Toe after landing one punch. Then he got KO'ed by Deontay 'To This Day' Wilder

 

The European belt is not nothing as you put it
Its been held by some great talent so thats a pretty bad call

And Gold is Gold
Not his fault who he had to face

Again he was pretty average but to call him talentless is nonsense
Just not talented enough to go any further

 

Most of that great talent went on to win proper titles. The European belt was a mere stepping stone on their way to greatness. Not Fraudley. For Fraudley, that's his level

 

A secondary title in the grand sceme of things but its a great accomplishment

Id be a proud man if i could tell my family i was once the best HW in Europe

 

It's an accomplishment, I'll give it that

I'd rather tell my family I was the best heavyweight in the world. Such a boast wouldn't even be accurate, seeing as the three world heavyweight champions at the time were all from Europe and therefore the best heavyweights not only in Europe but the entire world

 

Well of course we would all rather be able to say that instead

Im sure you must have gotten my original point so i wont really drag it out as we could go back and forth for a while here on a sub topic that really means little

I guess Harrison was pretty much in the right place at the right time and when it got too much just turned up as a gatekeeper
Pity the gate wasn't even locked with the way he fought

 

I remember Harrison's BBC contract getting binned a few fights in because he was so terrible a fighter.

To answer the question, he'd be nowhere today, just like he was nowhere in the 00s

 

He would perfectly fit horizontally on every canvas around the world.

 

He could work as a janitor at any major HW event. Cleaning the dressing rooms and sweeping the floors.

 

I'm an A-Force fan too. It's best to simply ignore the farcical denouncements of the casuals around here, they're obviously too young to remember the talented Olympian in his prime.

In a H2H series of three fights, it's almost impossible to see anybody getting the better of Audley. Joshua would demand far too much money so I don't see that fight materialising, Wilder ducked the rematch by leaving the UK and never coming back and though Fury could possibly win a close decision by fighting tentatively off the back foot, there's easier work for him out there. As the OP mentioned earlier, yes he was stopped by a prime Sprott who is often compared to Larry Holmes by boxing historians, yet he came back and won the rematch in brutal fashion.