David Haye vs Audley Harrison OFFICAL THREAD

Fair point mate!

 

From what i have heard mate he is a speedy chap and can take and pack a punch, not seen him fight though to be honest

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Oh, i dident know that.

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David Haye has no need for an entourage, or the usual accompaniment of hangers-on, back-slappers and media minders that clung to the coat-tails of those who have proceeded him as the owner of what was once the greatest prize in sport, the heavyweight championship of the world.
‘Just recently, I saw Audley Harrison on television and he had about 18 people with him while he was out for a slow jog up a hill in America,’ says Haye, dryly.

‘Some fighters like people around, but I’ve always been one to believe boxing is the loneliest sport in the world.

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Standing alone: David Haye believes Audley Harrison's need for other people will be his undoing

'You better get used to doing stuff without relying on other people to make you feel good, because when you get in that ring everyone else gets out.’

On Saturday evening at Manchester’s MEN Arena, Haye intends to reinforce that message to the detriment of Harrison in the first heavyweight title fight between two British boxers of any meaningful consequence since Lennox Lewis met Frank Bruno in Cardiff in 1993.

Now 39, Harrison, the Olympic champion in Sydney a decade ago, has survived a career of unflattering mediocrity to be integral to a night when boxing has to prove that it still warrants serious attention.

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Team Harrison: Audley takes a morning run with his entourage

Without Haye or Amir Khan, British boxing has become an ignoble parody of its former glories.

In recent months, two of Britain’s most respected champions, Joe Calzaghe and Ricky Hatton, have been exposed for being unable to cope with the realities that surround them now that they are no longer disciplined or defined by the power of their fists.

Their publicly-recorded reliance on cocaine knocked them from the plinth on which the public had placed them.

Haye’s response to the dangers that lurk outside the ring — as well as inside the ropes — is to be unapologetically playing the endgame of the strategy he devised with Adam Booth, his manager, from the day he turned professional eight years ago.

‘My plan has always been to quit boxing with all my faculties and as much money as I can, when I am 30,’ says Haye.

‘As I will be 31 in mid-October, I am in my last year.

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Alone in the ring: Haye is confident his self-reliance will be the key to victory

‘I will knock Audley unconscious on Saturday night, because I’m not in there to give him a foot rub.

'Then I’ll fight one of the Klitschko brothers, Wladimir or Vitali, because one of them will have to fight me, as there will be too much money on the table for them not to do so.’

But Haye is adamant he will not linger beyond October, become part of a three-ring circus as Mike Tyson did, or still be looking to fight like his boyhood idol, Evander Holyfield, as his 50th birthday approaches.

‘Holyfield is one of the greatest champions of all time, with nothing to prove to anyone,’ says Haye.

‘I had a poster of him in my bedroom when I was a boy and I am proud that, like him, I came through as an undefeated cruiserweight to become heavyweight champion of the world.

'Like him, I’m used to being the smallest man in the fight.

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Face to face: The pair will finally meet at the MEN Arena next weekend

‘But now, at 48, he’s calling me out! I can only imagine he must have money problems. There’s always the temptation of taking just one more fight.

‘It’s always just one more in the beginning, but it won’t happen to me because I am stronger, I have other things in life and I intend to retire,as Lennox did, at the top of the game, unhurt and wealthy.

'He’s always been supportive of me and been there any time I have needed him.’

With his looks and charisma, Haye may not be deceiving himself when he suggests that he will find ample compensation for boxing on the film sets of Hollywood.

‘I’ve always loved action films, with lots of explosions and shooting,’ he says.

‘I don’t see why I can’t be an action-hero like Vinnie Jones has become after retiring from football.’

First, though, he has to deal with Harrison. He insists he does not take the task lightly.

‘I have to believe he will be in the greatest shape of his life,’ says Haye.

‘This is the opportunity he has waited for, so I’d be dumb not to think that he will do all he can to take the championship from me.

‘But if he thinks he knows professional boxing, he is in for a massive surprise on Saturday.

'He will never have met anyone who throws punches as fast and as accurately as me.

'I am going to bring him a lot of pain.’


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If your meaning the main event, apparently 10pm, but all depends on how far the others go etc. but 10pm is the reported time.

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