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Originally posted by Jay
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Originally posted by Dan_
The age is really the big factor, plenty have come back earlier in their career's from knockouts but he'll be 36 this year and his fitness is going downhill rapidly.
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The thing is also when he first turned professional after the olympics he was fighting no hopers so he's not had many huge fights.
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Yeah totally agree mate and I put the blame partly down to the BBC for that, they put him on a 10 fight deal and allowed him to pick whoever he wanted to fight and then have him a million quid for doing it and Audley was obviously going to breeze through a bunch of hand picked no hopers and he just stagnated as a fighter through the lack of competiton but he was also handling the promotion and training side just to take more money and that's too much for anyone to handle so no wonder he's never really improved.
He became a pro a bit too late and didnt get the expert help when he got there, it was never going to work out.