"So it's been a wild, wild journey for us to reach this point. And if I get through this fight I'll get a chance to meet Oleksandr Usyk. Fighting Usyk for the world title would be a funny story, remembering how I went to Ukraine to spar him seven years ago. It would feel like I've come full circle."
"I've got a title for Netflix already. It's going to be called White Collar to World Champion. I think it rolls pretty well."
"I was also badly beat up. I had a cut on my nose, my face was bleeding. My shorts, my outfit, ev"
Fabio Wardley progressed from white-collar fights and commuting from Ipswich to London for recruitment work to become an unbeaten heavyweight with 20 professional contests. Joseph Parker held the WBO world heavyweight title in 2016. Wardley, 30, prepared to face Parker at the O2 in London with a world-title path available if he wins, including a potential fight with Oleksandr Usyk after sparring Usyk in Ukraine seven years earlier. Wardley endured a brutal British and Commonwealth title fight versus Frazer Clarke in March 2024 that ended in a draw and left both fighters badly injured, with extensive bleeding and cuts.
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