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I’m going to chop down Audley Harrison so quickly
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10 November 2010
He claimed my choice of transport was a sign of my ego being out of control and my training camp being in turmoil.
Well, it took me 90 minutes to get from door to door, London to Manchester. It took Audley and his entourage seven-and-a-half hours to make the same trip by coach.
If Audley carries decision making like that into the ring on Saturday, he's liable to get chopped down very quickly. Once I arrived in Manchester, I was able to recall when I was last here in April.
The purpose for the visit then was also boxing business and my opponent was John Ruiz. I dropped the former title holder four times on the way to a ninth-round stoppage and I'm looking to go even better against Harrison. Not many people are aware of this but my training for Ruiz didn't exactly go to plan.
I picked up a pesky cut very early in preparation and as a consequence I was unable to do any sparring and my form suffered.
Yet I still dropped Ruiz in the opening three minutes with a hard right hand. At my very best, Ruiz wouldn't have made it out of the first round. Audley, certainly, won't make it up off his back if the same shot lands on Saturday.
The bad news for Audley is that my training camp, this time, could not have gone any better. There have been no cuts, no worries and no shortage of sparring. In fact, my sparring has been better than ever and I've been able to get through more rounds than ever before.
Also, unlike our good friend Audley, I've been sparring world-class heavyweights, not cousins, brothers and anonymous guys from lower-weight divisions.
The bottom line is this: Audley couldn't have beaten me in April and he's got no chance in hell now.
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