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'I'll bleed if I have to' - Harrison

Audley Harrison fights David Haye on November 13 © Getty Images

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Audley Harrison has fired a chilling warning to David Haye by insisting that he will "put everything on the line" in what he promises will be a "long, hard slog" for the WBA heavyweight title on November 13.

Harrison has portrayed the fight as his "destiny" as he prepares to seize his last chance of glory in the closing stages of a career that promised so much - he won Olympic gold in 2000 - but has failed to live up to the potential, with a European title the highlight.

Now the 39-year-old has left the world in no doubt that he will stop at nothing in his bid to overcome former sparring partner Haye, who claimed the world title against Nikolai Valuev 12 months ago.

"David Haye thinks he's going to walk through me, that it's going to be a public execution," Haye said. "Trust me, I'm putting everything on the line. If I go down, I'm going to go down. If I get cut, I get cut. I'll go through whatever adversity I have to.

"Adversity is your friend, every time I've fallen I've been able to build my character. David Haye is not going to be able to break my spirit, and the only way he can win is by breaking my spirit.

"David Haye isn't going to knock me out. David Haye couldn't knock me out then [in sparring], he can't knock me out now. So it's a long fight, or David Haye gets taken out - that's the reality."

Harrison also took aim at Haye's chin, which he perceives to be the champion's area of vulnerability. Although Haye takes a 23-1 record into the fight, that solitary defeat came when he was spectacularly floored by the veteran Carl Thompson in 2004.

After Haye suggested that his chin would break Harrison's hand, the challenger responded: "His glass jaw would shatter [if I land with the left] - what are you talking about, break his hand?!" Harrison said. "We all know David Haye's chin is vulnerable."

Haye hit back at Harrison by insisting that he was ready to "go to war" by fighting on the front foot from the outset. The 29-year-old is renowned for his quick starts - he put John Ruiz down in the first round of their bout in April - and he is aiming to turn the lights out quickly.

"That put a big smile on my face, the fact that Audley's going to come out there, hold the centre of the ring and go to war," Haye said. "It gives me a nice warm feeling in my stomach - I'm ready to go to war because this is what I'm born to do."

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