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Harrison quashes retirement talk

16/04/2006

Former Olympic champion Audley Harrison has vowed that he won't retire from boxing after a disappointing defeat to American Dominick Guinn on Friday night.

Harrison lost to a unanimous points decision in California to record his second successive defeat, having lost to Danny Williams last December.

However, the 34-year-old insists he won't quit the sport and he will come back better and stronger.

"I've got to regalvanise myself as I wasn't hurt at all at any time, I just didn't put my foot on the gas," Harrison said.

"I've just got to go back to the drawing board but this ain't over yet."

Harrison has come in for criticism throughout his professional career, with many in the sport saying that he should have developed quicker and should have been fighting better-quality opponents earlier on in his career.

The defeat to Guinn was the second of his 21-fight professional career and was a major setback for the fighter.

However, he insists that he has still got what it takes to become a world champion.

"I've got to keep working on it, as I'm close, but I just haven't come over the mountain yet," Harrison added.

"Frank Bruno went for world titles three or four times and eventually he got there."

Bruno took four attempts to win a world title, beating O|iver McCall to win the WBC belt on points in 1995.

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