Audley Harrison
Hugh Audley Harrison ( born October 26, 1971 in London, United Kingdom) is a former British boxer in the heavyweight division.
Amateur
Harrison began in 1991 at the age of 19 years with the boxes. As an amateur, he played 54 fights of which he won 46. In 1997 and 1998 he was British champion in the super heavyweight division. In 1998 he participated in the European Championships in Minsk in part, but failed in the first fight at Syarhey Ljachowitsch, but won that take place in the same year the Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur. Also participating in the 1999 World Cup in Houston had little success, where he lost in the second round of the tournament against the eventual winner Sinan Samil Sam.
His biggest success he achieved at the Summer Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000. With victories over Alexei Lesin, Olexij Masikin, Paolo Vidoz and in the final against the Kazakhs Muchtarchan Dildabekow he won the gold medal in the highest weight class.
Professional career
After the victory, he was professional and gave himself the nickname " A- Force". Harrison was ridiculed because of his phlegm and his sensitive acting chin as " FRAUDLEY " and "A- farce ", he had many enemies in the English media. The criticism was not always fair, its structure opponent Mark Krence, Richel Hersisia and Tomasz Bonin had but at the time of fighting each unbeaten.
He was repeatedly violated, its development inhibited, another problem for him was that he was already at the beginning of his professional career relatively old. The first defeat in his career as a professional on December 10, 2005 compared Danny Williams, he went into this fight in the eleventh round to the ground. In his next fight against Dominick Guinn he again lost on points.
For December 9, 2006, a meeting was scheduled with Matt Skelton. However, this broke in preparation for this fight hand and had to cancel. As a replacement opponent his arch rival Danny Williams was again obliged. Harrison dominated surprisingly clear and won in the third round by KO
On February 17, 2007 Harrison went against Michael Sprott in the struggle for so-called EU Championship in the third round hard co He returned after more than a year's break back in the ring and won two fights against construction opponent, but without convincing case. On 12 December 2008 he lost over ten rounds against undefeated but little respected Northern Irishman Martin Rogan on points.
On 10 October 2009 he won the British television channel Sky Sports organized by the TV Prizefighter tournament, where he played three each dreiründige fights in one night and could decide for themselves. Harrison should then fight against Poland's Albert Sosnowski for the European Heavyweight Championship. Since Sosnowski resigned the title in March 2010 for a world title chance against Vitali Klitschko, Harrison's conqueror Michael Sprott, who had lost four of six fights since his victory against Harrison was re-nominated for the duel for the now vacant EBU belt. The fight on April 9, 2010 in London could Harrison, on points laid back, by Ko win in the twelfth round. On 13 November 2010, he lost a world title fight against WBA titleholder David Haye by TKO in the third round.
26 May 2012 Harrison returned with a victory by TKO in Round 4 on Ali Adams back in the ring back. His last fight he denied on April 27, 2013 against Deontay Wilder, which he lost by desolate idea in the first round by KO. He then announced his retirement from boxing.