Who Should Fabio Wardley Fight Next?

Chisora

Anderson

Joyce

 

Chuck him in with any of em next, other than Usyk they've all got plenty of flaws. I think they can all beat each other on a given day.

 

Joyce seems like the obvious fight.

 

I agree with Joyce, Wardley be way too fast for him.

It's a great story and comes across well in interviews, guy really seems happy to fight anyone which is refreshing, easy to use lack of experience to avoid fights happening, Wardley won't.

 

Wilder.

 

Fabio comes across as a really articulate guy. Well spoken and it's hard not to warm towards him.

A dark horse about to be noticed on the world stage.

All about timing with Wilder almost gone, Usyk Fury AJ not far behind age wise.

I said he should face Hrgovic next but another name has just popped into my head - Hughie Fury. Clash of styles.

His trajectory is rising rapidly.

 

Chisora, Joyce or Whyte. Easy to make, will be a challenge, and he could make some decent money.

Outside of the Brits, I'd go for Franklin or Wallin, as mentioned.

I've seen Anderson and Hrgovic mentioned, but they may be a little too much just yet. Hrgovic is always a bit of motivation away from being a good fighter and Anderson could be stylistically difficult for Wardley at this moment in time.

A couple of fights against the Brits and Wallins/Franklins of the division, then take on one or two of the live contenders on the world stage and see where he is then.

 

Whyte manages him so that’s a no go.

 

I didn't realise. Cheers, mate.

Not a great loss, to be fair. At this point in their respective careers, I think Chisora and Joyce would pose more of a threat than Whyte would to Wardley.

 

He'd stop Joyce at this stage, but anyone with a bit of movement will give him big problems. I wouldnt be surprised if they wheel Del Boy out for him and i'd be confident he'd win that one.

Really have to hand it to him, I can't think of anyone else in the top 10-15 of their division who had zero amateur fights?

 

Neil Scott, the chief medical officer for the British Boxing Board of Control explained that injuries of the nature Clarke suffered are rare in boxing, and extremely painful.

"It's not common. We don't see it that often at all," Scott told Sky Sports. "Visually it looks alarming because you see someone essentially with a big dent on the side of their face.

"The reason for that is the cheekbone comes forward as a thin piece of bone before it starts to fan out and form the prominence of your cheek. When you get a degree of force, the bone can essentially go in and that results in the visible divot.

"If the bone there is pushed in it can impinge on you opening and closing your mouth.

"The bottom jaw can deviate to the opposite side. If that's pushed in enough and you're trying to open and close your mouth, it'll deviate off.

"It must be extremely painful and it must be quite distressing as well.

"I'm a maxillofacial surgeon by trade so those sort of injuries are what I deal with at work in the NHS and typically those kind of injuries are caused by, it sounds crazy, but bricks and things like this.

"With the size of the glove it's not something that we see in boxing.

"It must be a tremendous amount of power to do that. A tremendous amount."

 

With a handful of white collar fights and 19 pro, Fabio has done really well to get this far. Likeable dude, who's entertaining in-and-out. I do worry though that his inexperience will be his downfall eventually, in similar vein that Joyce's regular punishment was. I'm sure he's enjoying every moment though, and not setting the bar too high.

 

If you can fight, you can fight. And if you can fight AND punch harder than average at heavyweight, that's going to put you in the running, as long as you can avoid enough punches along the way ....

Background is not so important - if you can fight, and you approach the professional game with a professional mindset.
I believe Fabio Wardley is better than Audley Harrison was, but Harrison was an Olympic gold medallist.
Frazer Clarke won international medals as an amateur, including Olympic bronze. Wardley just put a dent in his head, stopped him in 1 round.

 

What about Zhang?

 

Fabio Wardley is a cheater