Mandatory Eight Count: Audley Harrison Won't Quit, Carl Froch Will Save the UK

He deserves some credit simply for pursuing his goals, admittedly feebly on most occasions, and for just getting in the ring. But, quite clearly to me, he simnply doesn’t have the stuff of a champion or even a contender and that’s just the way he is. I don’t think he’s a coward but he is lacking what makes a fighter.
I watched the Sprott fight again – where he KO’d Sprott in the final round after trailing on points and it’s a revealing episode in his career. Apart from his loss to Haye – which was pretty brutal and final – Harrison only fights when he’s stung into it or when he has faced a glaringly over-matched opponent. and that would not, and never will be, enough to ensure his progreess to any meaningful title. Somewhere between winning Gold and last Saturday he encountered something in the pro ring which persuaded his fragile fighting psyche that this was a whole different ball-game for which he was parrticularly unsuited. I guess his most impressive win was against Danny Williams, but even that was against a notoriously hot-or-cold average performer with his own personal issues with the sport. If the day dawns when Audley Harrison somehow frees himself from his own inhibitions in the ring and uses his not-bad talents and actually comes through as he so desperately wants, I’ll be the first to cheer him for his victory against all the odds and the opinions of his detractors (myself included) and, most importantly, against himself. His dilemma, surely, is not unique, but it is unusual for a fighter at his level – wherever that truly is.
Perhaps it will never happen, and on past form it’s highly unikely, but if he can still shoulder his burden for yet another ‘final’ try, and make a fist of it (no pun intended) then good luck to the silly bugger, assuming that someone will pay him to do it, of course.

But I’ve long maintained that Abraham is the best style matchup for him in the tournament.

I have to admit that I find Abraham a highly unattractive fighter. I know that each fighter has to box to his strengths but his style is awful, plain awful. I’d love to see Froch send him packing. But then I’ll feel sorry for the guy. Oh! What to do?