Fabio Wardley would have taken a struggle with Daniel Dubois subsequent.
British heavyweight champion Wardley is coming off a shocking first-round knockout victory over Frazer Clarke.
He was prepared to make the leap from British to world stage and go into an instantaneous struggle with Daniel Dubois, the IBF champion from Greenwich, subsequent.
“Very much so. 100 per cent I’d have taken it because you never know when your opportunity is going to come again,” Wardley advised Sky Sports activities Information.
“Boxing is a humorous sport. You’ll be able to set as many plans as you need collectively, scheme and provide you with all these concepts and it might not come off.
“So if it’s delivered to you, if it’s handed to you in front of you and they go ‘here’s your opportunity’, I’m speaking for myself, but I’m taking it with both hands.”
He added: “I believe I’ve performed all of the constructing blocks, the milestones and ticked all of them off. I’ve performed the laborious 12 rounds, I’ve gone in with greater guys, smaller guys, punchers, boxers, whichever else, pedigreed amateurs, all the remainder.
“Throughout my career I’ve taken on whatever opportunity’s been put in front of me and I’ve gone through it and I don’t see this level switch as anything different. I see it as another change, another opportunity, another wall for me to break through.”
Dubois is boxing Joseph Parker, a former world champion, on a blockbuster Sky Sports activities Field Workplace invoice on February 22.
Wardley is definitely tipping Parker to edge the competition after they conflict on subsequent week’s Riyadh Season occasion.
“It’ll be a hard fight regardless, for the pair of them as well. But I think him and Andy Lee [his coach] have been showing that they’re cooking up something special. They have been in the last few fights when it comes to gameplans and belief in how they’re working and how things go,” Wardley mentioned.
Watch the blockbuster February 22 invoice reside on Sky Sports activities Field Workplace
“So maybe sway it slightly that side for me.”
Wardley can be working his solution to his personal world title shot. “The plan for this year is either [to be in] pole position for a world title or fighting for a world title,” he mentioned.
“So it’s about putting myself in the right place. That No 1 ranking with the WBA is a great start to the year and a great start to that. So it’s just about following up on that, capitalising and keeping the train rolling really.”
The WBA world title is held by unified champion Oleksandr Usyk.
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British and Commonwealth heavyweight champion Fabio Wardley made his solution to the ring to the sound of Roy Jones Jr’s well-known hit ‘Cannot Be Touched’
Wardley mirrored: “Ultimately we’re all just waiting to see what Usyk does. If he starts defending mandatories, if he’s done and is just going to let all the belts go. Is he going to do the Daniel fight? There’s question marks around that.
“Me and different individuals like myself we’re all form of stood on the sidelines simply ready for our alternative. Have to attend and see what he does first to make the appropriate transfer, or make the sensible transfer.”
He isn’t though planning on challenging Usyk directly. Wardley added: “It appears much less and fewer probably that our paths will ever cross, but when it did ever come collectively, it will be a loopy struggle.”
Daniel Dubois vs Joseph Parker and the Artur Beterbiev vs Dmitry Bivol rematch will be live on Saturday February 22 on Sky Sports Box Office. E-book now!
