Article: The Tragic Truth of Haye-Harrison

no , barry mcGuigan is the only one who has come out with respect from the haye and audley fight because barry was the only pundit who told it how it was , audley didnt have a chance and Barry said that every other pundit was saying there's a good chance audley could pull it off.

bollocks to them.

 

Wrong - it was about business, easy payday for both men to be precise.

Correct - shame on Haye.

I think you have went a little melodramatic with the moral high ground take.

Yeah, boxing has a dark side and the McIlvanney's and Schulbergs never shied away from writing about it, but your take on it the morality of this fight shouldnt have been centred on taking pity on Harrison with a lot of pyscho-babble.

If there was to be a morality focus it would have been better anchored on the following:

Haye not fighting a proper contender

Haye and Harrison not throwing a punch for the first two rounds and then learning that Haye and his crew had money on a 3rd round stoppage

Sky fleecing fans yet again by only showing one live under card fight

Harrison shortchanges the punters by not even trying to win a world title shot or earn a big paycheck, that most boxers only dream of......

 

Exactly

 

Good article.

 

Totally agree with this, an i hope fraudley was crying into his millions all the way home to LA LA land. No doubt he'll be back soon though, chattin the same **** before his next euro defence

 

this seems to be a common point.

do fans really imagine what it is like to have your whole career and purpose in the sport reduced to a laughing stock?

should Hatton be over the moon he got KOd like a fat kid in the playground by Pacquiao, because he made a few million?

Harrison got embarrassed in front of hundreds of thousands and didn't even throw a punch. He was in his dressing room after crying, that's how much the money meant to him. the trashtalk was real, not just hype to make money. and he will not have a title shot again.

i'm not sure how fans can relate to that feeling, when a boxer is cocksure that glory is their destiny. like hatton, like harrison, to get knocked down like chumps and embarrassed, to be ridiculed by the papers...all after confidently predicting they would take the title for months and months.

then they are just supposed to retire on the sourest note possible. that's why hatton cant retire, that's why audley won't retire. the mental side of it all is heavy ****. it's not all about retiring happy with the money they made getting whupped. in fact they never go off to retire happy that way.

 

If McGuigan knew that Audley had no chance, what the **** was he doing there on the panel of a fight he knew was a joke? He happily went along with the charade only to show his true colours after the fight, slagging Audley off as if he was somehow surprised at the outcome. It was like the Sky panel were so embarrassed at what they had just spent the last 2 hours hyping up that they immediately shifted the focus away from that to how **** Audley was and how delusional he is. If Barry McGuigan had criticised Haye for making the fight it wouldn't have been so bad but I don't remember him saying anything in regards to that.

 

Getting paid.

Lets not make anyone individuals out to be villains here. McG is probably under contract to take part in these events. I think he's a brilliant addition to the Sky team, generally. The fact that he's making money out of it does not concern me.

The people to blame are the media generally (in their commercial/corporate guise) and the sanctioning authorities.

I cant begrudge a man making a living off the back of this.

 

Yeah they were all getting paid. Haye got paid, Audley got paid, Sky got paid. That doesn't make it right though does it. I single McGuigan out as his opinion conveniently changes depending on the situation.

Here's a quote from McGuigan dated June 14th

"You can't say he (Harrison) hasn't got a chance," explained McGuigan. "On the strength of the punch that knocked out Sprott, he has a chance against anyone."

And here's what he had to say after the fight.

But Harrison was stopped in the third after being floored for a second time and threw just a single jab in almost eight minutes of boxing.
And that, says McGuigan, was typical of his entire professional career.
"I felt really sorry for the guy but he's delusional - and he always has been," he told Sky Box Office.


So which is it, Harrison had a chance because of his "big left"?, the line that was used by everyone trying to sell this fight, including McGuigan.


Or Harrison had no chance, he is delusional and always has been?


It seems like he was happy to hype the fight up but couldn't wait to turn on Audley when it was over when evidently he knew all along that Audley never had a chance.

 

McGuigan has called it from day one.

I remember an interview with him and Woodhall after one of Audley's BBC fights. Woodhall was saying how much Harrison was coming on and how good his footwork and head movement was. McGuigan said rubbish, he was never going to get anywhere because he wasn't comfortable in punching range and you cant coach fear out of people.

 

Actually, Mcguigan said Harrison had no chance before the fight, when him an johnny nelson were talking it through an showing highlights on that new touch screen thing. As for his comment about harrison landing a big left, anyone that steps through the ropes has a punchers chance, thats a fact. Thats if they actually throw one that is!

 

Which brings me back to my original point, why did he hype a fight when he knew Audley had no chance and then go on a rant about how delusional he is after the fact? If he is so straightforward and honset why didn't he have a go at Haye for taking the fight instead of shifting the blame onto Audley? He had the cheek to say Klitschko fights "recycled guys" but not a word about how Haye chose to fight someone who McGuigan admits had no hope of winning! He's quite selective in that regard don't you think?

 

This bout was only ever about an easy pay day for Haye and his cronies (which includes Sky). It had absolutely nothing to do with boxing or sport in a wider sense. To qualify as "Sport" suggests some form of contest, this event was never going to be that. Shame on Haye and Booth. Shame on Sky TV, shame on the WBA, shame on the Boxing Board, and shame on the media who gave Haye an easy ride.

 

Rob, **** off. Sometimes you need to look at the actual events in the world instead of waffling ****. Harrison is NOT mentally ill. Being delusional and nervous does not qualify as mental instability.

It's nothing to do with supporting Haye, it's to do with not accepting silly claims about mental illness by someone without the qualifications to make them.

The article is just hyperbole. Overstatement. And a load of biased shite, frankly. It was a terrible fight, but this is not like Lewis-McCall. Harrison's just a blagger who got in over his head and shat himself on PPV.

 

:good:good:good I could'nt of put it better myself.