Comments Thread For: Negotiations have begun to match Oleksandr Usyk with Fabio Wardley

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I PROMISE you this will be a harder fight for Usyk than people think, it might be the first time Usyk gets put on his back.

Fabio isn't like Fury, AJ and Dubois, he's hungry, he's mentally strong, he WANTS the fight and when Usyk clips him on the chin he's going to go super sayin and throw a million shots back at him. Fabio is hungry, he's got a granite chin and he's a hard bastard.

People think boxing is Top Trumps and because Usyk scores higher in all the technical skills means it'll be easy

If that was true Floyd would have never had so many problems with Maidana

Good points sometimes the attributes you mentioned are enough when facing a more refined boxer, on paper doesn't always check out in real life so we'll see if this happens.

[CPNUTKnockoutFreshMart]

The things that ya'll forget about Wardley is that he only has to land one. He has that kind of power. He also doesn't know how to lose , he never gives up and he isn't mentally or emotionally fragile like Dubois . Usyk is no spring chicken either.

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Wardley by Howard Foster premature stoppage. Wink wink.

[NihonJim]

Here we go with the delusion. Fury, Joshua, Dubois all failed twice, but Wardley is going to be the one, huh? The same Wardley that gasses fighting guys standing right in front of him? Please. Wardley was hating life while fighting Huni and Parker - the later the fight goes, he visibly gets more discouraged. You can see this on his face and body language whenever he heads back to his corner bewteen rounds - especially during the Parker fight.

What do you think is going to happen when he misses repeatedly and feels the non-stop pressure due to Usyk's movement. That's not even figuring in getting belted across the face endlessly.

This is going to be Usyk's easiest HW fight yet. Take a moment and look at Wardley's record. Fish Eyes has pulled yet another fast one on the UK.

Probably what he always does when that happens

Knock Usyk out

[pollywog]

Probably what he always does when that happens

Knock Usyk out

But he didn't knock either Huni or Parker out when they were outboxing him. It might be in the books but we all saw what happened...

Huni 's "knockout" was a fast count he beat and wasn't given the chance to fight on, while Parkers was even more egregious, the ref stopped it without giving him a count at all.

[factsarenice]

Usyk loses nothing by emailing Fabio a belt and putting him through another war before signing on to win it back.

Fabio gets a massive payday in his first defense like Dubois did with AJ...

...and gets to parade around with a silly belt that doesnt even hold trousers up.

Win win!

LMAO, funny creative stuff like this makes my day....

And you're right, it make more money and gives Usyk the opportunity to become a 3 time unified heavyweight champion.

[factsarenice]

The things that ya'll forget about Wardley is that he only has to land one. He has that kind of power. He also doesn't know how to lose , he never gives up and he isn't mentally or emotionally fragile like Dubois . Usyk is no spring chicken either.

My money is still on Usyk, sure he can get clipped and just like everyone else he can get old but so far I see no signs of it. Usyk fought punchers and tricky fast boxers and after the fight they all said he's hard to catch clean.

IMO, Wardley looks quick and strong but he's not complicated, he has habits and he does the same thing over and over because that's the fight plan. The problem fighting a guy like Usyk is that he moves for 12 rounds, makes a lot of adjustments on the fly and keeping up with him becomes mentally draining and psychically exhausting.

As I see it, there is always a chance a guy like Wardley, AJ or even Dubois can catch Usyk before he figures out the fight plan, they all have a punchers chance but so far that hasn't been enough.

But hey, that's just my opinion.

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I PROMISE you this will be a harder fight for Usyk than people think, it might be the first time Usyk gets put on his back.

Fabio isn't like Fury, AJ and Dubois, he's hungry, he's mentally strong, he WANTS the fight and when Usyk clips him on the chin he's going to go super sayin and throw a million shots back at him. Fabio is hungry, he's got a granite chin and he's a hard bastard.

People think boxing is Top Trumps and because Usyk scores higher in all the technical skills means it'll be easy

If that was true Floyd would have never had so many problems with Maidana

Sure, Maidana gave Mayweather problems, but he still ultimately got outboxed twice. Usyk has 350 amateur fights, with 335 wins and 15 losses. He's likely seen every kind of boxer that there is, and we know he's faced power punchers in the pros. Wardley has zero amateur fights and is learning on the job. Fabio has a puncher's chance, and that's all he has.

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Usyk loses nothing by emailing Fabio a belt and putting him through another war before signing on to win it back.

Fabio gets a massive payday in his first defense like Dubois did with AJ...

...and gets to parade around with a silly belt that doesnt even hold trousers up.

Win win!

Usyk will be 39 in January. He doesn't have time to give up a belt, wait for Yardley to have a tough defense, then try to win it back from him.

[pollywog]

Usyk will be 39 in January. He doesn't have time to give up a belt, wait for Yardley to have a tough defense, then try to win it back from him.

Usyk in his own words plans to fight til 41 with 3 fights left. 1 a year.

If he chooses to have an easy gap year, give up a belt and fight a voluntary patsy in Poland, sure he's aged but there's less wear and tear on the body.

That leaves Wardley to accumulate damage in a war defending his new belt only for a refreshed Usyk to ,after having got a look at Fabio as champ, challenge him for unification again.

That's assuming Wardley even comes through another hammering, cos lets be honest, Parker rocked him on numerous occasions and may have been one Oilskin flurry away from getting stopped.

Remember Whyte was saved by the bell in a furious Parker rally in the 12th after Parker came back from 2 knockdowns. One of which was a concussive headbutt. Another reason why the refs stoppage was premature.

For all we know Wardley's been cracked and is now shot. Usyk though is not cracked, shot or showing his age and has time for some gamesmanship.