Audley Harrison "A Nation living in Fear of Destiny"

WTF is that about?

 

:good

 

He's totally bricking it, PK. Audley's getting smashed.

 

Audley looks dangerous!

 

Right, so I had a dream, or perhaps a premonition, regarding The Fight, & it doesn't look good for A-Force, much as it pains me... Three knockdowns in the first before the ref waves it off (sort of an accelerated version of Hatton/Pac).

Weirdest thing about the dream was that Valuev was ringside, heckling :huh

 

Audleys got his big eyes on. Looks nervous I think. I fear he may freeze on the big stage enzo mac style. In fact the more I think about it the more I fear this fight will pan out in a similar way. Cagey opening, both looking to counter, a shared round, and then Audley leaves a lazy jab out there too long in the second and haye punishes. Audleys brave and gets to his feet but his legs aren't beneath him and haye lets fly with a barrage of unanswered punches forcing the ref to step in and wave it off.

I hope you don't invest to much into Harrison PK. His story is intriguing, inspiration even but this is boxing and heart and desire can only get you so far. For my money Haye is in another league to Harrison in the pro game and he could be on the end of a humiliating stoppage loss tonight.

 

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I just realised I haven't made a prediction for this fight yet. I will say it now. Audley wins by knockout in a war. This is the first controversial prediction I've made since Khan vs Prescott where I predicted Prescott would knock him out but stopped short of putting money on the fight. This time, I might put some money on Audley. I realise this is a much more controversial prediction than predicting Prescott would KO Khan.

PK, I don't know if you'll be posting on the British forum again after tonight but let me say that I used to consider you crazy, and a bit of a twat, but now you've become my favourite poster on this site (no homo). This has been an incredible thread, the most popular thread in the forum, full of passion. The opening post is the best post I've EVER read on this site. I hear what you're saying, PK. I hear it, and I understand it....

I've never mentioned this before but I myself used to be a very talented football player, but it went wrong. At my age of 23, I don't know if I can ever do what I should've done when I was younger. When I was 16, someone told me I should seriously consider turning my hobby into something more serious, because I had so much natural talent. I told this guy that it's too late for me to be a football player because I was 16 and not even playin for a team. He told me about a player (I forgot his name) that was discovered really late. I didn't really take him seriously. Prior to that, when I was about 12-14, I was playing football for this community centre, nothing serious. We had a coach who used to coach some youth players at a championship club (I think it was Nottingham Forest or something). He couldn't believe that I wasn't playing for any team and told me that the following week he would give me some details of some teams that I should contact. He forgot to bring these details the following week, and I never reminded him or took any action myself. It was like I wanted everything on a plate, wanted everyone to do things for me and constantly tell me I had it in me. Every time I played, everywhere I went, people were like "oohh" and "ahhh", just amazed. I could hear them whispering to each other that I was a special talent, and it felt great. I would just toy with the other players. I was a small lad, not physically strong, and there were players who could run faster than me, had more stamina and were stronger, but everyone could agree that I was the most talented and skillfull. I never paid attention to fitness or diet. If I did, I would have been unstoppable. Anyway, this community centre team broke down a week later I think, and that was it.


Maybe now it really IS too late. Or maybe not. I might give it another go in the new year. I should be a pro, but instead I'm working a regular 9-5 job. I don't really like watching football these days, because I think I should be on the pitch right now. I try and convince myself that I wouldn't have been good enough because It's less painful that way. I can't though. Everytime I see a game on MOTD or whatever, and I see what these players are doing, I really believe that I could do a much better job than these players. I try and convince myself that actually they are much better than they look on TV and that I wouldn't have had what it takes but I know I'm lying to myself. It's a lot less painful to know that you just weren't good enough than it is to know you had the talent but failed to make use of it because of whatever ****ed up things were going on in your head. Self doubt. Mental demons. I didn't hang out with the wrong crowd or do anything bad. I just had self-doubt, that's all. Even when people were telling me I could be pro, I laughed it off. Like Audley I can't change the past but even so, I'm no ordinary person, I have other goals and will make it another way. I will inspire in another way, and am putting in work most days. If I can't make it in football, so be it. I'll make it another way. I don't want to forever make a living doing something I am not passionate about, though I count myself lucky I have a job at all in this recession, even if it will end along with the year. I'm passionate about things besides football and work hard at them. After I come home from work, I work at it, and it will pay off one day. I'm getting closer.


That's why I can relate to Audley Harrison. Audley can't change the past either, but he can still do some justice to his career. Some justice. Just to find some peace.


If Audley wins, I hope you celebrate with some whiskeys PK. Best of luck to you and you will achieve your dreams. This thread has inspired me and deserved for me to tell my story.

 

The Prophecy will be fulfilled tonight!!!

 

^^^^ Trussssss

 

He's reminding me of Nigel Benn before Gerald McCllellan fight.

 

Yeah similar hairstyle

 

Ero, you're letting your emotions get the better of you. This thread has been a gigantic joke, not passion - delusion and mental illness seeping through every post.

Haye is what Audley wants to be. Haye is a guy who had raw talent - he was special. Audley was an overachiever who turned his life around but had a major flaw:

He thought he was amazing when all he was was lucky.

I'm sure he's a nice guy, but he's arrogant and irritating. Audley doesn't have the stomach for a war - he never has. How will he change completely between two fights. He won't. He can't. He's going to lose.

the sooner this fight's over, the sooner we go back to talking about skills and ability rather than fate and destiny.

 

I agree - Haye is more talented than Audely - clearly so.

But Kirkland Lang was supremly talented - but still got knocked out twice by Colin Jones and never won a World title.

Even Lennox Lewis - shook his head and said once - about Kirlkland Lang - "that man had so much talent"

The point I am making is - talent is a great gift to have - but dosent mean you are simply going to win a fight cos your more talented than the other guy.