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

Credit to Dubois for coming from a bad start to dominate the fight.

I wasn't impressed by Wardley. His strategy seemed to be 'throw a jab followed by a wild right'.

 

I just saw what Wardley's face looked like at the time of the stoppage. They let that go on for how long? There are other fighters that would have been pulled much sooner.

 

Although this was a good fight to watch, the circumstances surrounding it highlight the ridiculous situation in boxing now, with too many boxing authorities and wayyyyyyyy too many belts, especially the nonsensical 'interim' belts:

Usyk beats Joshua twice and then beats Dubois.

Usyk vacates the IBF title and Dubois is ‘upgraded’ to become the IBF champion, even though he’s never won a world title fight.

Dubois’ first defence of this title that he never won (the one vacated by Usyk and that Dubois had unsuccessfully challenged Usyk for) is against….

Joshua, who had lost that same belt to…

Usyk.

Dubois beats Joshua, has a rematch with Usyk and gets annihilated.

Usyk vacates the WBO belt and Fabio Wardley is ‘upgraded’ to become the WBO champion, even though he’s never even had a world title fight.

Wardley’s’ first defence of this title that he never won (the one vacated by Usyk) is against Dubois.

Dubois wins and can call himself a two-time world heavyweight champion.

He is now being lined up for a potential undisputed world title fight with…

Usyk.

 

But Holyfield was so much better than Wardley. Holy was my favourite fighter and I won money on him against Tyson but he wasn't taking the punishment that Wardley takes, he was too good for that.

 

Eh, Parkers stoppage was questionable. Even more so considering how long they let Wardley take punishment for.

 

Well done to Dubois on one hand

I dont want Dubois-Usyk again on the other

 

Once Daniel remembered his time in Brick Tops womb, he was bound to start dominating and hurting him with straight shots. Damn if our white collar superhero didn't make him work for it though. It wasn't a completely sure thing until the very last seconds.

 

Usyk has some other options.. just not of the commercial value his after.. DDD will sell again because its for all the belts but I actually think DDD should avoid it.. he can't win.. too out skilled.

 

Dubois Usyk 3 is a total waste of time. You can't be serious wanting that.

 

Lots of island home cooking in that one.

 

I watched that fight this week. Usyk didn't even do anything special, he fought his usual fight. Dubois' jab was nullified and he got overeager in the last 2 rounds trying to land something and it got him KO'ed.

Nobody wants another fight between those two.

 

No I don't.

 

Fair play. Both Wardley wins against Parker and Huni were very premature.

I'd say they let Wardley take extended punishment because he was the champ.