Fabio Wardley says he needs his world title shot towards undisputed heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk following his Eleventh-round TKO win over Joseph Parker final Saturday evening on the O2 Enviornment in London.
All of the Belts Beckon
Wardley (20-0-1, 19 KOs) shouldn’t be going to cross up the title shot that he earned along with his victory over WBO interim heavyweight champion Parker (36-4, 24 KOs). Fabio needed to undergo so much to get the victory. So, he’s not going to surrender on that huge cash alternative.
“There’s nothing I need extra,” mentioned Fabio Wardley to talkSport Boxing about wanting the title shot towards Oleksandr Usyk subsequent. “All of the belts, all of the marbles, let’s go. All credit score to Joseph Parker and Andy Lee for having the balls to take the struggle. He’s a person of braveness, and thanks for the chance.”
It seems to be like Wardley, 30, might be getting his likelihood to struggle for the 4 belts towards Usyk in 2026. The one manner the struggle doesn’t occur is that if Usyk decides he’s bought a greater choice preventing somebody extra fashionable, like Tyson Fury, Anthony Joshua, or Moses Itauma. These are the one three that would tempt Usyk to look elsewhere than Wardley.
From White-Collar to Warrior
“There’s so much that goes into profitable fights. On the prime stage, you’ve bought to have coronary heart, will, willpower, and the heart to win. I’ve all of these issues,” mentioned Wardley. “I need it. All people thinks that I got here from white collar. I got here out of nowhere, and I’m simply blissful to be right here. That’s not the story. I need extra,” mentioned Wardley, giving his mindset.
The toughness that Wardley possessed, alongside along with his punching energy, performed an enormous consider his victory over Parker final Saturday evening. He wouldn’t have received the struggle if he hadn’t been keen to take all these heavy pictures and keep within the pocket.
Many heavyweights would have backed off in the event that they had been getting hit with the type of pictures that Wardley was repeatedly nailed with by Parker by means of ten rounds. Wardley didn’t. He stayed on prime of Parker, pressuring him all through the struggle, taking his greatest punches to land his personal.
Wardley stored his composure after referee Howard Foster selected to offer Parker a timeout in the course of his bombardment of him in spherical two. Throughout that brutal spherical, Parker had misplaced his mouthpiece simply when he was on the verge of being knocked out by Wardley. The referee saved Parker then, and within the tenth spherical as nicely, when he was badly damage once more by Fabio.
