Danny Williams and Audley Harrison can only meet in the final of Prizefighter The Heavyweights III.
Williams and Harrison set for final showdown
A grudge final between Danny Williams and Audley Harrison is on the cards following the draw for Prizefighter The Heavyweights III.
The draw, made by Mike Tyson in Las Vegas on Friday, kept the bitter rivals and strongly-fancied Michael Sprott apart in the quarter-finals.
Williams, the reigning British heavyweight champion and bookies favourite starts against late call-up Carl 'The Fridge' Baker and appears to have the easiest half of the draw.
Harrison takes on Northern Ireland's Scott 'Ding-Dong' Belshaw in his first fight and is scheduled to meet Sprott in the semi-finals, should the Reading man overcome Danny Hughes in his first fight of the night.
The other quarter-final sees former British champion Scott Gammer take on Coleman Barrett.
Bad blood
But all eyes will be on Williams and Harrison, who have been bitter rivals since their first meeting in December 2005. Williams won the first encounter only to be stopped in the third round of their rematch a year later.
There has been bad blood between the two with Williams admitting that he probably wouldn't have signed up for Prizefighter had his old foe not been involved.
"When I was first asked to be part of this year's Prizefighter, as British heavyweight champion, I wasn't sure," he said.
"But when I heard that a certain celebrity boxer would be involved I knew I had to be part of it!"
PRIZEFIGHTER DRAWQUARTER-FINALSScott Gammer v Coleman Barrett
Danny Williams v Carl Baker
Audley Harrison v Scott Belshaw
Michael Sprott v Danny Hughes
SEMI-FINALSGammer/Barrett v Williams/Baker
Harrison/Belshaw v Sprott/Hughes
The third heavyweight tournament in the Prizefighter series has become the talk of British boxing and will take place live on
Sky Sports on Friday, October 2. It has already been moved from the York Hall to the ExCel Arena where a 5,000 sell-out is expected.
Tickets cost £40 and £80 and are available from See Tickets on 0871 220 0260, www.seetickets.com or from Matchroom Sport on 01277 359900.
