{"id":940870,"date":"2026-10-21T04:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T04:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/940870\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T04:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T04:24:08","slug":"british-boxing-legend-hopes-fabio-wardley-retires-now-he-wont-get-over-those-beatings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/940870\/","title":{"rendered":"British boxing legend hopes Fabio Wardley retires now: “He won’t get over those beatings”"},"content":{"rendered":"

After falling well short in his rematch with Daniel Dubois, fans are left questioning what Fabio Wardley<\/a>\u2019s next move should be, and one British three-division world champion has admitted that he would like to see the 31-year-old hang up the gloves.<\/p>\n

Wardley has been one of the greatest success stories in recent boxing history, turning professional with no amateur background and going on to capture the coveted heavyweight world title.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Ipswich fan-favourite met his match against Daniel Dubois this year though, as \u2018Triple D\u2019 scored a damaging defeat to end Wardley\u2019s title reign back in May, before a two-round demolition job in their rematch on Saturday marked his first title defence<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As a result of the one-sided display, fans and analysts are pondering whether Wardley should continue on in the sport, and speaking to Seconds Out<\/a>, British boxing legend Duke McKenzie MBE said that he would like to see him \u2018walk away\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I was Fabio Wardley\u2019s manager now, I would sit him down and say, \u2018the choice is yours, you are a grown man\u2019, but from a personal point of view, I would like to see him walk away from the sport.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe may never recover from the beating that he took from Daniel Dubois. Talk is cheap, ultimately, he is saying that he wants to continue and that might be a bit of bravado because he has just been [beaten] soundly this time, no question.<\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, I don\u2019t think that he is ever going to get over those beatings that he has taken. You don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

As McKenzie mentions, Wardley seemed content with remaining in the fight game during his post-fight interview, but McKenzie feared that his comeback could reveal what is \u2013 or isn\u2019t \u2013 left of the former WBO heavyweight world champion.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou don\u2019t know how badly damaged he has been now. Daniel Dubois is a massive puncher and Daniel Dubois hit him, he stayed hit. There are big punchers in the heavyweight division, there is no such thing as a light-punching heavyweight, they all hit hard.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, we are not going to know what Fabio has got left until if and when he does decide to fight on.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for Dubois, it seems as though unifications are the priority for 2027, having been linked to a rematch with IBF heavyweight champion Filip Hrgovic<\/a>, as well as a clash with WBC ruler Agit Kabayel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After falling well short in his rematch with Daniel Dubois, fans are left questioning what Fabio Wardley\u2019s next…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":940871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-940870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=940870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/940871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}