According to Frank Warren, Fabio Wardley has a rematch clause

The only way he is winning is if he can get his stamina up and I don't see that happening so he is looking to get knocked out again.

 

They need to rematch and AJ needs to rematch Dubious.
Every fight is a guaranteed KO of one of these characters, so it works out well.
They all deserve to be punched in the head, what's the problem.

 

Terrible look for Davidson and team

https://www.skysports.com/boxing/ne...world-heavyweight-title-loss-to-daniel-dubois

 

Dubois fought two people in the ring last night. Who cares that he used a couple of elbows. The referee totally stopped the fight while Dubois was beating Wardley up in the 7th round and kept him separated. Paused the fight to put on Wardley's gum shield during the middle of the action. Constant doctor checkups to help Wardley breathe. The fight should have been stopped a lot sooner. Foster is the worst referee of all time.

 

Crowds used to watch people kill each other in the Colosseum as a form of entertainment... times change. I love boxing, I love most combat sports, they're one of my biggest passions, but there sometimes gets to a point in a fight where one guy is taking WAY too much punishment, to the point where it stops being entertainment, and starts making me feel a little queasy. Thankfully it very rarely gets to that point nowadays, in fact a lot of fights are often stopped too early which annoys me, particularly some of Wardley's wins. But that fight should have been stopped way sooner, it was starting to feel sadistic. I started feeling like I might be watching a fight that ends in tragic circumstances.

I think it doesn't help also that Wardley's such a likeable and intelligent guy, so people naturally feel sympathy for him. I admit, I'd probably feel a lot different if it had been someone like Conor McGregor or Andrew Tate taking that kind of punishment, who I despise, haha.

 

Respectfully, what the **** are you talking about Seamus? Get that faux machismo bull**** outta here. You sound like you're writing a script.

The "price for glory" has literally never been almost dying. You speak as if the bare minimum to becoming a world champion is to almost be beaten to death in the ring by a 250lbs man, even though 99.999% of champion level fighters have never had to go through that. It's not like people are complaining that he got hurt period, they're complaining that the dude was allowed to leave the corner while stumbling on his ****ing feet.

The people around him are parasites. If he doesn't protect himself nobody will. Neither will the people that claim fans that get upset when he's not willing to die for their amusement.

 

Less led poisoning and fetal alcohol syndrome.

 

Sorry, this is the way the sport has been for over a century, and the way it still is in many countries. I understand your concern, certainly. My participation and viewing of boxing has bothered me several times over the decades. I quit watching for a year after Benn-McClellan. But as time went on and I spoke with more and more ex-pros, and watched changes in myself, I realized that everyone gets stung in this sport. Thus, I see a strain of hypocrisy telling a game fighter, who can still defend himself, that he can not continue a fight in order to keep his championship. In the end, I thought the fight was stopped at the appropriate time and all the bellyaching about how it should have been stopped three rounds earlier is not fair to the champion defending his crown.

 

Difference being Clarke sucks.

 

Dubios isn't exactly a technical wizard either.

 

Enough of one that he absolutely dominated Wardley.

 

Yeah, but not through some form of technical brilliance. So let's not get too far ahead of ourselves here.

 

I'm not proclaiming Dubois to be supremely skilled. Wardley is simply a poorly skilled boxer. He depended upon punch resistance to save him until his power bailed him out.

 

We have a problem however Seamus with this CTE scourge hanging over contact sports. When you get a high functioning corporate type like Wardley dribbling, being fed puree from a spoon, and unable to create an intelligible sentence, people notice, and eventually governments get involved.