Fabio Wardley vs. Daniel Dubois & Jack Rafferty vs. Ekow Essuman + David Morrell vs. Zak Chelli RBR.

He's just such a **** referee imo. He should be banned for screwing up so many fights

 

Wardley is a man with too much heart for his own good. His inability to find his range was wilder levels of bad at times. He had the power to win but just clearly can be outboxed easily.

 

All props to Wardley for his granite chin and heart aside, his style is not becoming of either a long career or a healthy life afterwards. Even in the Clarke, Huni and Parker fights he ate a lot of shots.

 

Dubois won that fight.

 

I thought I had seen it all in boxing, but the bravery, balls, courage of Wardley today was next level.

I thought the fight could have been stopped earlier, but Wardley didn't want to quit, and in some ways it would have been a travesty given all the punishment that he had endured.

Just think of Michael Zerafa who had a paper cut and asked to quit versus the effort from Wardley.

Unfortunately it overshadows DDD's performance- getting off the canvas twice to put on a solid display of power boxing.

 

Respect to both. They took some real big shots obviously Wardley. He needs to rest for a while, go on holiday, come back to an easier warm up and then see where he is. Dubois has options now. A big win for him.

 

The punches Fabio dropped Dan with were top of the head/behind the ear, from memory, thats how Lerena hurt him too. I think his chin is solid, some of the between rounds footage of the punches to the chin and face he took showed this. Needs to work on defending those high landing looping punches. His jab is perhaps the most powerful I've seen. Wow. Think Ituama might be the man in around 18 months but Dubois beats any heavyweight not called Usyk right now for me...

 

Huni must think what if... he was 9-0 up before getting sparked lol

 

Marciano hit the deck in the first round against Walcott, would you consider Marciano as having had a suspect chin?

 

The amazing thing is that Wardley never went down.

 

Apart from Usyk's Ivan, he takes punches to the chin quite well. Both Lerena (1X) and Wardley (2X) dropped him with similar top of the skull punches.

 

Dubois very good tonight. Used his size well to smother and wrestle. Wore Wardley out. His boxing was strong, used jab well.

 

What a battle. Feel knackered just from watching it on the couch. Fabio is ridiculously tough but I was angry at his corner, Foster and the Doctor for letting it go on as long as it did.

One of those rare fights where both the winner and loser come out with their reputations enhanced I think.