Comments Thread For: Fabio Wardley Questions Life Expectancy After Grueling Bout Frazer Clarke

[Willow The Wisp]

The heavyweight division is never coming back unless the NFL and NBA are forced to cut their players salaries by 90%

The heavyweight division is RED Hot!!!

NFL and NBA athletes have no fight in them, raised like spoiled hothouse plants. They melt like ice in July in a fight.

[TMLT87]

The heavyweight division is never coming back unless the NFL and NBA are forced to cut their players salaries by 90%

The NBA and NFL have like 2000 players between them, a lot not even HW sized, on a planet of 8 billion. Never understood this whole NFL and NBA excuse for HWs sucking. Not to mention top boxers are among the highest paid athletes on the planet.

[SteveM]

The NBA and NFL have like 2000 players between them, a lot not even HW sized, on a planet of 8 billion. Never understood this whole NFL and NBA excuse for HWs sucking. Not to mention top boxers are among the highest paid athletes on the planet.

I think a lot of "HWs sucking" commentary is because 99.9% of them are ponderous compared to say WWs - but that is just A/ the dynamics of being bigger and B/ the lack of a weight limit meaning they don't have to be disciplined about weight.

Sub 112lb boxers make most WWs look ponderous.

[BlackRobb]

If only Tank Davis, for example, had half the desire to fight in 50/50 fights and half the heart of these two then boxing would be in a better place.

I'm not a Tank fan. I'm anxiously waiting for someone to ice the little midget, but he won't fight anymore with a pulse. That doesn't negate the fact that folks in the UK consider Wardley and Clarke to be title threats. Wilder would KO both of these scrubs in under three rounds.

[Willow The Wisp]

The NBA and NFL have like 2000 players between them, a lot not even HW sized, on a planet of 8 billion. Never understood this whole NFL and NBA excuse for HWs sucking. Not to mention top boxers are among the highest paid athletes on the planet.

Exactly. It's just a casual fan's perspective.

[Willow The Wisp]

I think a lot of "HWs sucking" commentary is because 99.9% of them are ponderous compared to say WWs - but that is just A/ the dynamics of being bigger and B/ the lack of a weight limit meaning they don't have to be disciplined about weight.

Sub 112lb boxers make most WWs look ponderous.

Exactly. It's just a casual fan's perspective.

[SteveM]

I'm not a Tank fan. I'm anxiously waiting for someone to ice the little midget, but he won't fight anymore with a pulse. That doesn't negate the fact that folks in the UK consider Wardley and Clarke to be title threats. Wilder would KO both of these scrubs in under three rounds.

Nope, try again about "folks in the UK....". Huge assumption in your part and just plain wrong. Casuals will hardly know of them and knowledgeable fans know they are in the top ten British HWs a long way behind Joshua and Fury.
Then again there's folks in Amerrrrrika who still think that Wilder is a credible HW threat. He lost all credibility with that last performance and so he has some work to do to prove he still belongs in that conversation.

At least we can agree on Tank.

[Sid-Knee]

The way this is written up
The accolades of this being some kind of Gatti vs Ward 1
Just write it up as it really was
The 99% of the HW div is dreck.
Doesn't matter if they ever fight each other.
Force retire them all (make Usyk move back down ?) and hope against hope for a brighter future.

Did you just claim that those two were nobodies and therefore, this fight isn't worth anything. Only to then make claim that Micky Ward somehow is?

It was a great fight to watch in a 50/50 fight. One had only 8 fights going in. The other picked up boxing late and has no amateur background.

Which divisions have fighters as proven as AJ, Usyk and Fury? Tell me about those divisions? They surely have fighters who can match or surpass their achievements if their divisions are so great. But don't worry, i know the real reason to why you're downplaying the division. It has no North Americans involved. Have another joke like Wilder come along, and guess what... The division has all of a sudden come alive. Also, why would you want Usyk to move back down for?

If watching great fights isn't your thing, maybe watch another sport. The less people like you on here, the better. I may even come back into the fold and happily talk boxing with people who aren't nutters.

[Sid-Knee]

I'm not a Tank fan. I'm anxiously waiting for someone to ice the little midget, but he won't fight anymore with a pulse. That doesn't negate the fact that folks in the UK consider Wardley and Clarke to be title threats. Wilder would KO both of these scrubs in under three rounds.

No one considers either to be world title threats. You're making stuff up in your head again and casting it down.

Wilder couldn't even get complete palooka's out of there in 3 rounds. We've seen it many times. This was in his prime too. Now, they'd probably knock Wilder out. His last trip to the ring was one filled with a mental block to actually throw punches. That's the thing with mental midgets. They're weak.

[TMLT87]

That doesn't negate the fact that folks in the UK consider Wardley and Clarke to be title threats.

I am from the UK and have never ever heard anyone say this.