Guardian Sport
UK · 40 mins ago
‘Clark Kent grew up’: Audley Harrison on fighting the system, Olympic gold and life after the ring
Former Olympic super-heavyweight champion takes satisfaction from changing British boxing for the better, but still wants to train a world champion
“I was the Olympic champion, and I was the next big thing, but the system had to win,” Audley Harrison says as he reflects on his rise and fall as a fighter who changed so much in British boxing while failing to fulfil his grandest ambitions in the ring. Harrison had once been considered a likely successor to Lennox Lewis, the undisputed world…
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