Harrison beat Harry Mansfield on points at the National Sporting Club, Covent Garden in May 1911.
In May 1912 he beat Pat McEnroy to take the British middleweight title vacated by Jim Sullivan and the Lonsdale Belt.
He returned to the UK and fought Ted Kid Lewis in December 1912, losing by a third-round knockout.
[10][11] He continued to be involved in boxing, and by the 1920s had moved up to heavyweight and became Midlands champion; He lost to Harry Gold in January 1924 and knocked Fred Phipps out in the third round of a contest at Rushden in August 1924.
A commemorative blue plaque was placed on his former home in West Street, on the Prime Choice Letting & Estate Agents building, by the Rushden & District History Society.