All Aboard the Official "Let's Send Primadonna Kool to the Echo Arena" Express!

The Audley Harrison Story:

Audley's mother deserted him before he had even got to know her. He lived in a bad neighbourhood and got into trouble. His father did his best to hold down a job and raise four boys but Audley left school at 16 with no qualifications.

Before long Audley ended up in prison before being transferred to Feltham Young Offenders' Institute. That was in 1988. Audley was 17 years old and he had still not even stepped foot in a boxing ring. Aged 19 Audley found boxing and it changed his life.

Years later in 2001 Audley wrote in his autobiography:
“I am an Olympic and Commonwealth gold medallist, a Bachelor of Science (Hons), a Member of the order of the British Empire, a qualified fitness instructor, a qualified existing boxing coach, a household name, a champion of the rights of amateur boxers, financially stable and a donator to charity.

I have been to Buckingham Palace and joked with Queen Elizabeth II. I have met Prime Minister Tony Blair. I have followed in the footsteps of Bill Clinton, Nelson Mandela and Michael Jackson and addressed the Oxford Union and I am hailed as a role model for British youth today. When I was younger, people would cross the street to avoid me. Now they cross it to ask for my autograph.

These are not boasts, nor two-finger salutes to anyone who may have doubted me - they are simply the bare facts of my life. They are my achievements, but if they serve as an inspiration to a new generation of adolescents who feel - or who have been told - that their life is going nowhere then my satisfaction will be all the greater. If, when I am an older man with my hair greying around my temples and a grandchild bouncing on my knee, I hear a young athlete on the television saying that he was inspired by Audley Harrison, then I will go to my grave a very happy man.”

Nine years later, Primadonna Kool started the greatest thread in ESB history...

Audley Harrison "A Nation living in Fear of Destiny"

Two years hence, on 13th. October 2012, Audley Harrison fights in Liverpool for the British and Commonwealth Heavyweight Titles against the defending champion David Price.

Let's put this in context...

Lennox Lewis, the last British heavyweight champion, won the Olympic Title in 1988, the European Title in 1990, the British Title in 1991, the Commonwealth Title in 1992, a Heavyweight Belt in 1993, regained it in 1997 and then won the Ring Magazine Heavyweight Championship in 1999. He retired in 2003.

The race is on for his successor...

The Contenders:

David Price won an Olympic Bronze Medal from 2008. He won the British and Commonwealth Titles in 2012 and remains undefeated as a professional. He has never challenged for European or World honours. He is 29 years old.

Tyson Fury did not win an Olympic Medal. He won the British and Commonwealth Titles in 2011. He vacated the titles in 2012. He is undefeated as a professional. He has never challenged for European or World honours. He is 24 years old.

Anthony Joshua is the 2012 Olympic Gold Medallist. He has not yet turned professional. He is 22 years old.

David Haye did not win an Olympic Medal. He won the Ring Magazine Cruiserweight Title in 2007. He won a heavyweight belt in 2008, beat Audley Harrison in 2010, and lost his challenge for the Ring Magazine Heavyweight Championship in 2011. He does not currently hold a British boxing license. He has 2 defeats as a professional. He is 31 years old.

Audley Harrison won the Olympic Title in 2000 and the European Title in 2010. He lost a fight for a Heavyweight Belt in 2010 to David Haye. He has 5 defeats as a professional. He is 40 years old.

In this context David Price versus Audley Harrison is a big fight in British boxing.

Beyond that, it's one of the last remaining fights in boxing because of its deeper moral meaning, because of the characters involved and because it is the first time in ten years that Audley Harrison has fought in Liverpool, home of Primadonna Kool.

Some people call him deluded. I call him a man for sticking to his words and convictions. I don't view the man as a joke, I view him as example to people around the world for keeping Audley Harrison as his avatar for as long as anyone can remember and despite, or perhaps because of, Audley's humiliating loss to David Haye.

When Audley Harrison fights for the British Title, it's a fight for hopeless optimism, for unorthodox punctuation, for keeping belief in yourself, and not giving up no matter what. That's what this fight will mean to Primadonna Kool.

I will go on record and say it right now, to the thousands of users that have joined Eastside, there has never before been a moment of truth like this.

There is a saying out there..."Save the cheerleader, save the world."

Muhammad Ali had his cheerleader - Bundini Brown.

Audley Harrison has Primadonna Kool but he can't hear him.

Let's do something about it........!

If we come together to buy Ringside seats to the fight for Primadonna Kool he will be near enough for Audley to hear him.

"Rumble, old man, rumble"

"Born the champ"

"Price is living in fear!"

And so on.

This is a rare opportunity to say thanks to Primadonna Kool for starting such a great thread, an opportunity to bring Audley's best cheerleader into his orbit, and, of course, a chance to shape destiny itself.

The ESB nation must stop living in fear.

Make your pledge. It doesn't matter how much you can afford. If you can afford nothing then donate your time and dissuade as many people as possible from bidding on those tickets, thus keeping the price down.

YES WE CAN.

 

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The Express has stalled here but I'll take a look later.