Why did the British public turn their backs on Audley?

It got to the point where he was literally terrified of getting hit. You could see the fear in his eyes. It doesn't go down to well with the British fans when he's getting paid a huge amount of money and literally not even trying to fight.

 

He had great potential. So much in fact I think he was the first British boxer to get a contract from the BBC to show all his fights. It's a shame what happened in the end really. He does seem like a nice bloke.

 

generally in british boxing, as long as you come to fight and test yourself the support will stay even if you lose a few times, see hatton, Bruno etc. Audley got a multi million pound contract to fight on primetime BBC (most popular channel) but fought 10 taxi drivers, even the casuals knew he was taking the ****. That effort vs david haye was shocking too.

 

It's the same reason as to why most of the British public support Man United, Chelsea, ****nal, Man City........They don't want to be seen to support someone that can lose.
Myself, I support a team that loses a lot, and am happy to say I was always in support of AUdley, even though I knew he didnt have much chance.
As a nation, we love to hate the losers, we wont back them.

Audley has a decent character, seems a nice bloke, never seems to be in trouble for anything, therefore, I quite like the guy. Doesn't mean I think he was ever going to dominate the HW, but thats not how I judge a character

 

David price lost against a decent fighter. He's also a very nice man.

I'm still a fan but many have turned there backs on him.
Audley with the destiny *******s was getting annoying but I have nothing against the guy.

 

Audley's main problem was that he got quite a lucrative deal from the BBC to show his first ten fights. If I remember rightly they also showed a few more after this until the BBC stopped broadcasting boxing.

Anyway, Harrisons first ten or so opponents were the usual mob of journeymen and old pro's which are needed to give a fighter experience, get rid of some of the amateur traits and help build the fighters name. The casual fan isn't to aware of this, so they just saw it as Harrison getting paid a large sum of licence fee payers money for fighting easy touches.

Added in to the mix was that Harrison didn't do the usual thing of signing with a big promoter and instead started up his own management/promotional company. This meant that he had more of a say in his choice of opponents.

These reasons and Harrisons lucrative sponsorship deals meant that a large portion of people in the country thought that Harrison was raking in a lot of money for fighting hand picked opponents.

 

Its not so much the dream but more the disillusioned hope that he would be a world champ. At the start of his career, by all means talk about one day winning a world title but when he lost and lost again he still spoke about winning a world title.

When he got KO'd by Price or Wilder he would have still been talking about winning a world title and you aren't going to have people on your side when you are being delusional. Look at Paul Smith, took the fight vs Ward and people then believe that he thinks he is better than Ward, when he clearly doesn't but he received loads and loads of abuse via social media and such, most British fans are pretty terrible to be honest, incredibly fickle and will jump on any little mistake you make.

 

This guy keeps on trolling on his own website. MVC is Scott Gilfroid, that re**** moderator theprofessor, A-force, ellerbe, ...

 

Exactly. Fraudley deserves ALL of the ridicule he gets - and MORE. He's a con man who ripped off boxing fans again and again. He literally STOLE millions from the BBC and continued to rip off the boxing public for years after this.

I rejoiced every time his glass jaw got shattered - couldn't have happened to a more deserving thief.

 

The British public supported Audley right until the end, people kept turning up to watch him.

British boxing fans just knew he wasn't the goods.

 

he was a cowboy, he'd turn up and fall over without getting hit.

if he was working in any other job, he'd quite possibly be in prison now for fraud.

Being such a bad fake shouldn't be given plaudits. He wasn't even a "good" fake, he was obviously conning us for the money, cashing in on his gold medal again and again. Shame, because he obviously had some of the goods to win some big fights, but lacked the most important ones - including both personal and social integrity, and heart.

Just goes to underline the old adage that heart is the biggest asset even for the biggest men.