Bruno wants Harrison comeback bout: report
Audley Harrison, Britain's Olympic Gold medal heavyweight boxing champion.
Former WBC Heavyweight Champion Frank Bruno from England.
LONDON (AFP) Former world heavyweight boxing champion Frank Bruno has said he is ready to come out of retirement for a one-off bout with fellow Briton and Sydney Olympic champion Audley Harrison.
Bruno, 41, and out of the ring for seven years, told British Sunday tabloid the News of the World: "I am the daddy of British boxing and Audley is the new kid on the block.
"But I want to knock him off that block.
"I know that I could beat Audley and he knows that himself.
"With pay per-view TV on top, it could make a lot of money at least 10 million pounds."
Bruno added 20 percent of his earnings from a contest with Harrison would go towards a hardship fund for retired boxers.
However, if the unlikely bout were to take place at all on home soil, Bruno would have to convince the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBC) that he was fit to fight.
That could prove difficult as Bruno admitted to having a detached retina following his second defeat by Mike Tyson seven years ago and the BBBC is known as one of the more safety-conscious sanctioning authorities in world boxing.
Bruno, now a popular performer on the British pantomime circuit, won 40 of his 45 professional contests in his 14-year professional career.
But it was said by his critics that many of those victories came against moderate opponents and that as soon as he fought boxers of any real quality he lost.
Bruno's five professional defeats came against James 'Bonecrusher' Smith and in world title bouts against Tim Witherspoon, Tyson (twice) and Lennox Lewis.
He eventually won the World Boxing Council (WBC) version of the world heavyweight title when he outpointed Oliver McCall over 12 rounds at Wembley in 1995.
Harrison, 31, has been criticised heavily for following a similar path to Bruno's in his currently unbeaten 10-fight professional career with a series of unconvincing wins over low-grade fighters earning him the unkind nickname 'Fraudley' in some quarters.
It is hard to see how, for all the money the fight would generate, even a victory over Bruno would help Harrison's ascent up the professional ranks while a defeat could well end of his hopes of becoming world heavyweight champion.