Henry Cooper V Audley Harrison

I would be inclined to think, that Bugner was a tougher ask than Harrison, and that Harrison's physicals advantages would not be a lot greater.

Do we really want to back Harrison, simply based on his tale of the tape here?

 

No. But a knockout win for Harrison isn’t out of the question. There’s no denying that he hit very hard and had a lot of size while Cooper didn’t exactly have the best set of whiskers. Of course then opposite could hold true but I think this comes down to who gets the better of the other first. If it’s always a matter of who is the better fighter or who had the better reputation then I guess a lot of people wouldn’t have lost money Hearns vs Barkley

 

Harrison was Harrison at the end of the day.

On paper you figured that he should have been more.

In practice he was 50/50 against the other top British fighters of the day, who were at least a level beneath Chisora.

Yes he won the European Title, but you might conclude that he was lucky to have to go through Sprott to get it, and perhaps also lucky to beat him.

Yes his power makes a lot of things theoretically possible, but I think that we should make Cooper the betting favorite here.

If I am wrong, then no money was laid down anyway!

 

Cooper liked to fight. His speed, intensity would disturb Harrison. And Henry could really whack.
Audley was a brilliant amateur and I give him all the credit in the World for that but the hard bitten professional game, which Cooper loved, was alien to him.
I take Henry, early.