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5.3 on Betfair to go the distance - what do you reckon? Harrison is a Bugner type boxer he doesnt like to mix it up and is ultra cautious so he might defend for 12 rounds and Haye will be happy to win every round on points?

I'm no expert but have had a few quid on this as it looks a decent bet to me. Dont mind losing though if it means Harrison gets ko'd.

Anyone know the expected ring entrance time?  I'm out and wont be back til 11ish

I know boxing is run by a bunch of bullshitters, but the hype they have created about this fight is ridic.

It's a mismatch. Haye is going to marmalise Harrison.

Definitely a fight I won't be spending any money on to see on PPV. 

I think Haye will take Harrison apart, but Bigfella's bet also makes sense if Harrison tries to box and hide, although I can't see him throwing enough at Haye to keep him away for 12 rounds.

9.45pm

They don't need to bother having the fight at a time that suits the US, as this fight must have virtually zero interest to anyone outside the UK (and most in it as well).

Anyone know where I can catch the Pacman fight online? Much rather watch that than pay to watch this awful "fight"

I think its on normal skysports

Sunday 2am SS1/SSHD1 and repeated at 11am SS2/SSHD2

If Harrison goes past 3 rounds I'll be surprised!

Of crse haye shld win, but audley can def throw a punch-if he can be arsed- and haye's chin is not exactly known as the most solid.

Just because im watching this ive had a pony on harrison to win by ko@7-1.

Pretty sure ive only done this bet as ive played harrison at poker and never even met the hayester, but id also prob like to see him pulled down a peg or 2, think either of the klitschko's wld pulverise him.

I've said it before (think we had a long thread about Audrey), and he's certainly got the physical attributes.  He's quick, big, strong and can punch (with combinations).  BUT, and it's a huge but, what use is all this ammunition if you don't use it?  If he'd had the odd fight where he didn't perform you could forgive him for taking it easy on those nights, or having an off night.  But it's virtually every fight he has.

On top of that, he's lost (and lost badly) to fighters who wouldn't put a scratch on Haye.  Of course any heavyweight has a chance if they can land a big shot on the target.  I just don't see Harrison having the bottle or drive to stand up to the inevitable flurries from Haye and throw meaningful stuff back.  Haye has to mess this one up monumentally for Audrey to have any chance, imo.

Kinda agree with that all.

Wldnt be at all surprised tho if haye takes this way too lightly, and of crse for audley this really is his last chance.

One clean punch is all that he needs, and surely he'll have the bottle to have a go.

7-1 seemed fair.

Cool, haven't seen any commercials for that one. Sky+ and watch it in the morning it is then :)

Im actually going to the fight, only cos my mates are going for a bit of a knees up. I also have a bet on Harrison (part of an accumulator that will come in if Audley wins).

I think, most likely, it will be a dogshit one sided annihilation of Harrison, but I had to bet because the 6-1 I got was too good, there are hardly any boxing matches where someone is a 6-1 dog even when severely mismatched. Add to that what Kin said about him having the ammo, Haye taking it lightly and having a suspect jaw plus the off chance of a bad judges decision, and I think it was a good bet at 6-1.

That said, always wanted to boo audley in person so cant wait for that

Never in the field of human conflict was so little expected from someone who has so much and owes a good performance to many, but up to now has delivered so few.

Why didnt you do it when you interviewed him you big scaredy cat!!! Now you'll go do it hidden amongst thousands of fans- poor show!

I know I had to go digging to find that one out; think Sky are probably keeping it on the lowdown in case it affects PPV figures.

Quite glad theyre both on the same night; having a lads night for it- Ice in bath for the beer, some munchies, bit of gambling and a shitload of booze- between fights theres about a 5 hour window- could be messy!

I actually did tell him in the interview that I am one of the people that boo'd him, it was on the phone so I got all Greekstein pretend brave

What odds are you giving that half of you are unconscious when Pacquiao steps into the ring to fight?

haha; there are usually a few casualties but should be alright- at 27-30 you would think we should have probably grown out of our pranks but basically everyone is too sh!t scared to sleep never mind the boxing. Going home>>>>>> falling asleep in a flat full of immature lads

Especially coz all the GF's are banned so they're not there to control

This - I cant fathom some of the people speaking up for Harrison. Haye in 2-3 rounds.

This needs more love although would have been doubly impressive if you had posted it at 11.11am.

Ty for quoting it, otherwise I would have prob missed it.

some dodgy internet link will do the trick, not paying 15 quid

Harrison has got some impressive attributes and he beats Haye in every area of physicality. He's taller, heavier, longer reach, and he can bang just as hard. Also Harrison is an experienced boxer now so that 6/1 or whatever looks like great value. However, there is a problem. Harrison is a coward, a big comedy coward who could readily star in an episode of Scooby Doo as a replacement for Shaggy. The guy doesn't like hitting people and likes getting hit himself even less, and that's rather problematic if you're hoping to win a fight. This fight has been manufactured purely for money and anybody who pays PPV to watch it has been conned. Admittedly I've paid for it so have been conned myself, drat, but then again I'm paying purely to watch A-Force get sparked and I hope whatever pride he's got keeps him on his feet long enough to get properly mashed up. I read Harrison in the paper yesterday and the guy's still chatting on about his gold medal. lolz.

i'm certainly not speaking up for harrison, but 7/1 for the ko has got to be decent value, we all know haye is by far the superior fighter, but he does have a suspect chin and audley can punch......so there is always that "boxers chance" and 7/1 seems worth a small punt

Commentary doesn't start til 10, so perhaps nearer 11 after all?

Not seen a big fight (yeah, I know this isn't really a big fight) on Sky that's being fought in this country start before 10:30.  Not that I can remember anyway.

They have been saying on Sky all week 9.45 is the EARLIEST. So if all the undercard are 1 rounders then it might happen but half 10 sounds about right.

If Harrison wasnt British, Haye would be 1-20. Harrison has fought 5 times at British Title levels, lost 3 and if not for a one off punch would be 4. Where his proclaim as a big puncher have come from il never know, his ko rate is actually below average for a Heavyweight fighter AND includes a huge list of bums.

Boxing promoters are amazing at manipulating the public and frankly its laughable.

Had 22 to win 4. Not even gonna bother watching be over in 3.

Agree. Last time Harrison fought well was in the Olympics. This could be Maccarenelli all over again.

I'm on a Haye knockout rounds 1, 2 & 3.

Hi guys what number on sky box office is this please
I paid for it and now I can't find it lol ty in advance

743 or 752 i think

yeah thnx I just found it

I got a feeling haye will go out in the first 3/4 rounds
swinging looking for ko
and audley might catch him(I doubt it but he might)
I think this fight could be a big big dissapointment
haye going wild and audley looking silly

if no ko early rounds
haye on points

I've decided to go with Dubai's line of thinking.


Main bet Haye rounds 1-3, covered with Haye in 4.

online link anywhere?

http://veetle.com/index.php/channel/view#4cde988a880aa

http://www.atdhe.net/25869/watch-david-haye-vs-audley-harrison

£40 on Haye rounds 1-3 and £10 on 4th round KO just incase it somehow lasts that long.GLGL all on Haye.

all a bit laggy for me tonight. this seems the best
http://star-sports.eu/

http://www.firstrow.net/watch/36727/1/watch-boxing:-david-haye-v-audley-harrison.html

this is perfect streaming ! just not in english
http://www.atdhe.net/28257/watch-david-haye-vs-audley-harrison

is fraudley going to punch him tonight?

This round pls.

Doubt this is real.

LOL - like watching Strictly Come Dancing so far.

Your first link is working perfect for me mate,had to download vettle first.WTF this is shit,first time I've ever seen a ref have to tell them to fight,bet sure is looking good.

Gtfo Harrison you joke, should withhold his purse for that disgrace to boxing.

Try throwing one punch Audley....oh, too late

so glad i didnt pay to watch that! see much better in town on a saturday night!

Bingo Bango!

very much this!

Haha BOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Harrison's a joke gtfo of boxing you mug.

"you're shit and you know you are "

Big lump of snot on Audrey's top lip at the end was the highlight for me.

Boooooo told y'all big big dissapointment

my boy woulda give a better go than ordainary Harrison
come to think he's not even ordainary he's shit

Audley's finished on PPV for ever. Even the con men at the heart of boxing promotion couldn't get away with it again

Haye said him and his family had shit load on round 3 ko,I'm suprised he's allowed to bet on himself ?

/thread

investigate the betting patterns. Not a punch thrown for two rounds and then an obvious collapse

It's boxing, a fix is eminently do-able

I'm just suprised he's allowed to bet on himself but obv he is when he's said it on tv,just most sports the people involved aren't allowed to bet and I'd think boxing would be a definite one where it wouldn't be allowed.

From a Don King fighter I'd expect nothing else.

So thats Boxing, Tennis, Racing and Snooker all fixed big time....football???? hmmmm

Rumours on a boxing forum is he had 100k on it

i think his comments were meant in jest

Not sure they do put the bets on themselves. someone else puts the bets on with their money. Always been the case.

I don't understand Audrey. If he's going to lose and get battered why not go out swinging?

No problem with betting on yourself to win imo anyway..........

Audley looks proper gutted...........

I'm not saying I'm bothered btw or that there's anything wrong with it.Footballers aren't allowed to bet in games there involved in are they ? I'm not saying they don't but just it would be against the rules yes ?

Yes


same for jockeys, cricketers etc

Rubbish.

well done Dubya, nice value lumping.

shouldnt be allowed to bet on anything but the outright win imo

too good

Audley kept saying in his interview his strategy was to "keep steppin up". I don't know how landing one jab in three rounds and crashing to the floor relates to keep steppin up.

Basically I think he was planning on landing two jabs between rounds 4-6, then a further three jabs in rounds 7-9. Haye would have been in trouble by around round 230.

Diabolical fight, the sick thing is Audley managed to get a Red Pro deal out of it (Cant wait to see what the chat box will be like at those tables).

just recieved this text, make me chuckle.

what do michael jackson and audley harrison have in common??






they both wore gloves for no reason

You guys who paid for this must feel like giving Harrison a slap.

You won't be on your own so I'd suggest forming an Audley queue.

Meh, I paid the £15, well worth the money to see him get slapped by Haye, it pretty much went as expected...........

Haye! No crappy puns on this thread.

If anyone wants to kick the shit out of me for 6mins whilst im wearing protective headgear for £1m then you're more than welcome.

I think any heavyweight pro boxer would kill any normal bloke well within 6 minutes, head gear or not.............

Fight was the expected disappointment - not annoyed tho coz the Margarito PacMan fight of SS2 after it was incred! Best fight for years...

Boxers are pansies these days.  Ref stoppages far too early.  I wanna see them brutalise each other!

You wouldn't have to worry about Audrey slapping you back.

Epic fight to watch the amazing skills of Manny,really hope he gets the chance to bray PBF which he would if they get it on.

you think pbf gonna want to fight pacquioa now....not a chance, he picks fights he can win.....he might fight him when he 39 or 40  and then blame his age

I think he'll fade the fight but really hope he doesn't.Mayweather would have a chance as he's a class act but I'd definitely make Manny favourite.

PBF vs Manny would be bloody hard to call

I'd definitely be backing Manny,It'd be an incred fight and would be very tempted to go if it's in Vegas.

I'd like the chance to call it though.

lol Alaskan5ive the dirty little grimmer posting itt.

?

He likes to sell 100+% of himself in tournies apparantly.

I've always thought it'd be close but the more I think about it the more I like Manny for it.

Harrison is an utter joke....the thing is he's that much a prick he'll prob continue fighting for dimes!

Many fight is what we wanted and didn't have to pay £15! Lot of respect for margarito tho; guy has what Harrison lacks... a lot of heart

Except when having his gloves loaded with plaster of paris potentially endangering his opponent's life and having the huge heart to take the piss out of Freddy Roach's parkinsons. I'm glad Manny ruined him.

I agree with everything u say baron; but he acknowledged his mistakes(maybe a bit indirectly cuz still kids on he wasn't aware) but in terms of this fight there was just 2 guys in a boxing ring and he gave his all! Great fight

PBF ?

Pretty Boy Floyd.  It's what he calls himself.  That and Floyd 'Money' Mayweather. 

Quite a humble sort.

guardian today


Who has the worst job in television? Anne Widdecombe's dresser? The producers of Daybreak? No, not even close. Step forward, Ed Robinson, plucky young toiler for Sky Sports, assigned the task of interviewing Audley Harrison after Saturday's title fight in Manchester.

Think about it. Robinson has to go into the dressing room of a heavyweight boxer who has just seen his career, along possibly with several of his teeth, go down the toilet, and ask him what went wrong – as if we had not just seen. It was clearly a disconsolate, diminished heavyweight Robinson faced – you could tell that, because Audley Harrison forgot to refer to Audley Harrison in the third person – but still, when all is said and done, a heavyweight, while Robinson is built along very much more modest lines.

It is difficult to say for sure because our reporter was wearing a suit, but he struck me as closer to the "before" picture in the Charles Atlas advert (younger readers, ask your dad) than the finished article. With that in mind, it was an act of some bravery to respond to Harrison's analysis that David Haye "just caught me with a good shot", by suggesting it was more a case of the challenger being, er, quite frankly, rubbish.

"You were very negative, you just landed one jab in the whole fight," Robinson reminded his quarry, without the hint of a tremor in his voice. I admire that, because Harrison has seen off enough bus drivers, nightclub bouncers, and other journeymen in his glittering professional career to suggest that a young Sky reporter giving him grief could be decked without too much difficulty. Well, all right, maybe the jury is still out on that, but the possibility did not seem even to have occurred to our hero.

"Do you regret not going for it?" the intrepid Robinson asked (subtext: by throwing a punch or something), to which Harrison replied that his strategy had been to "keep stepping up" as the fight progressed, taking it into the later rounds where he might complete his mission, as he liked to put it. Oh yes, he did consider changing his game plan at one point: "When I got up and beat the count [in the third round], my mind kind of switched," said Harrison, giving a good impression of a man who briefly contemplated snapping shut the padlocks on the stable door, when the horse was already outside in the car park with his feet up, smoking a contemplative fag and shooting the breeze with a few of his mates.

Harrison was pathetic, in the sense of provoking feelings of pity. Anyone with a spark of humanity could not fail to be moved as the camera closed in on the bewildered figure slumped in the corner of his dressing room. You could almost forgive the bluster, the vainglory, all the third-person nonsense we have endured over the years, watching Harrison crumple before the unforgiving lens. That is the elemental nature of boxing. As Nigel Benn, interviewed before the fight, said: "There's no coming back for the loser."

In no other sport is every contest as career-defining as in the fight game. Seeing Harrison in that corner was like compressing two months of cutaways of Avram Grant or Roy Hodgson – if either lasts that long – looking glum and defeated on the sidelines into one three-minute interview. "He's somebody's father, somebody's husband, somebody's son," said former cruiserweight champion, now Sky pundit, Johnnie Nelson. "You've got to feel for the guy." Fellow pundit Barry McGuigan agreed, but added: "It's a terrible thing to say, but he's delusional and always has been. He never tried and that's been the story of his life."

The former featherweight champion then set about redefining irony for those of us who had shelled out £14.95 for the fight: "He's been a salesman for the past two weeks. He never fooled me. Let's be honest about this, totally honest. Because that's what we need. On a lot of these TV shows we don't tell the truth."

Now he tells us. Actually, you could watch TV for a lifetime without seeing hubris so movingly depicted. In that sense I do not begrudge the price of admission. It was drama at its bleakest. I used to think the coldest, most miserable place on earth was outside the Slots 'o' Fun amusement arcade in Cleethorpes on any weekday afternoon in November, but now I believe it may be Harrison's dressing room on Saturday night.

Ya a while ago Jake bought him into the 300 and I also bought 10%. fk knows if any other mugs had any too.

http://www.skysports.com/haye/story/0,27000,17213_6509190,00.html

Harrison might have his purse withheld.

And now Haye denies he had a bet at all, despite saying the exact opposite post fight

BBBOC rules specifically prohibit boxers betting on their own fights

Not a big boxing fan, so perhaps this is common knowledge, but have the Klitscho's said publically they won't fight each other?

Yup. they have said they will never fight each other.

shame really, when I was a kid I always noticed the most vicious (and therefore entertaining) fights I would see in the schoolyard were between brothers. I'll never forget when Stu & Ants went at it, all that repressed shit from years of being brothers, it was great.

Obviously not everyone on blonde saw that particular fight, I'll search for in on YouTube. 

LOL the last fight I had was with my brother

the krays had a good fight in the film, which were in fact the spandeu ballet brothers having a good fight

the gallaghers always have good scraps

did phil and grant have any good tearups on eastenders?

brothers should be made to fight for their parents love

would love to see a fight between the woodseys

LOL my brother was a world championship rower at the time, so it was a tough one!

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYHMWZINEGI

lolz

OMG...

All the proof I need.

wow

i'm no pro lip reader but that looked like "go down" to me

do these pr1cks not earn enough??

fix

Holy shit!!!!

I want my £14.95 back TYVM.

why? you probably got 2 rounds more than if they'd actually fought it out, you should be paying more to sky

I genuinely would not be surprised.

This.

I was amazed to hear of the bad blood as most people knew they were mates for years. Also when Harrison "called him out" after Valuev the boxing forums were ahead of the game saying the fight might happen as a payday for his bessy mate.

Why do people get at Audley Harrison, hes never hurt anyone

Exactly, even though his pro was a shambles, he fought for our country in the olympics and won a gold medal, not many people can say that!

Whoosh.

 ;D

Even I got that one...and giggled lots!

Obviously, when you pay for boxing, you take your chances in that it could only last 45secs, but if they had come out swinging and one of them got caught and that was that, I'd have no complaints whatsoever, but in this case, it just seems rotten to the core and I feel that boxing fans in general have been conned and that's just not right.

Disappointed by it all really. 

LOL no way it was fixed, David Haye would have nothing to gain from that, there is no reason for him to do it...............

Apart from a few hundred grand extra........video tells a different story.

Not convinced either way, but it certainly looks dodgy, not only the video, but his comments after, and the lack of effort from Audrey, I could go on.......but I can't be arsed!

If someone can tell me that they are 100% satisfied that it was all above board and that both fighters gave it their all, I'd find it hard not to LOL.

Haye ain't doing that for a few hundred grand, he has too much to lose by doing it and getting caught. Its not like he was ever going to struggle to beat Harrison. Harrison on the other hand...........

You can easily see him saying that as a taunt or just to psych himself up for the next volley of blows! (I think however the eyes "say" it wrong in this  instance"!)

I can't see haye stooping to Harrison depths, just a media frenzy for me

Let's stand still and stare at each other for 3 rounds then I throw a punch and you go down without once trying to punch me back. That's not a very entertaining fix. They could have grappled on the ropes a bit more, danced around the ring, perhaps have Harrison catching Haye with a flurry of jabs before his a KO in the 6th or 7th. In wressling they've got metal chairs and fancy costumes and the bout swings one way then the other. 

Apollo Creed used ask Rocky if he was "ready to go down" all the time.

Nobody accused him of being on the fix.

I told you not to watch that DVD.

Rocky XXX (Men in the ring)

What did you expect!?

this is so com. do people really think that they fixed it but forgot to agree beforehand which round to end it in so haye had to tell him in front of the cameras?

This.

If it had been fixed, the pre-arranged signal would be "When I punch you in the face, go down"

lol

Back in your boxing days Red were fixed fights a regular occurrence?

Surely we need to enlist Cos and Vinny to tell us if it was fixed or not.

They are experts in this field.

About 10x more real punches got thrown in the Haye fight than they did when we went on the Real Hustle and had to watch 3 fights where no-one got hit.

I was only an amateur sov. You would struggle to win ten bob betting on fights at my level.

Snooker was definitely fixed though.

Really!?  Does big money change hands?  I would love to hear a story about a bent game of snooker!!  Or a story about a dog....

I once saw a picture of some dogs playing  pool.....






Actually, big snooker matches would be played out in private, and then the result replicated at the venue once the bets were in place.

your story telling skills have really taken a dive recently.

Like when people get rude words on countdown?

come on Dr M!

I have a great story of a fixed snooker match.

But it will take to long to type out and involves me losing a fortune and it will depress me.

So I'm not going to tell you it.

you tease

come on....

go on

yeah stop being so selfish!

Haye was stupid enough to tell the planet on live TV that he'd bet on himself (illegal) so I wouldn't put it past him. He's not the sharpest knife.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/boxing/9247061.stm

Sigh.

"Both styles of feinting and moving was off-setting the both of us in the first two rounds and I was just zoning in on his rhythm when he got through," said Harrison.

"I give David credit as I never expected him to hurt me as he did, but anyone could see it was a premature stoppage and I should have been allowed to carry on and ride out the rough patch, even if that meant I would have got knocked out."


STFU

Jesus, I dont know why he is bothering, nobody will ever pay to see him now, best he will get is journeymen fights (him as the journeyman).Just enjoy the Red Pro FFS Audley you lucky chuff.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/boxing/9358476.stm

Fair enough.

I am going to ask Haye for a fight as well..10% of the purse will be fine and I don't mind him bashing my face in for that type of money

Audley was in the Vic last night, straight from his meeting with the board.

He joined my table playing £1-3 did a buyin, got moved to the £2-5 then got stacked with AA

All in all i think he still had a good day.

Stephen Hendry was in the £1-2 last night as well. Left about 9pm ready for his match today in the Masters

I'm glad Audrey has finally got his purse. Now he's only gotta get his dress and his high heels to have the whole outfit.

why the hatred for harrison not like he hurt anyone

All that initial talent and no heart!

How can you earn £1 million for throwing one punch!

I'm not sure he threw a punch.  I think maybe he dropped it, by accident.