{"id":312714,"date":"2025-12-12T20:56:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T20:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/312714\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T20:56:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T20:56:07","slug":"adeleye-talks-wardley-rematch-but-nothing-has-changed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/312714\/","title":{"rendered":"Adeleye Talks Wardley Rematch, But Nothing Has Changed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe WBO world champion. That would be nice,\u201d David Adeleye said of Fabio Wardley, floating the idea of a rematch in 2026 in an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/boxing\/news\/12040\/13482222\/david-adeleye-targets-fabio-wardley-rematch-revenge-in-2026-i-get-to-right-my-wrong\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sky Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It would be nice \u2014 but it\u2019s also wildly premature.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=boxingnews24.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Add Boxing News 24 as a preferred source on Google\" width=\"310\" height=\"40\" class=\"perfmatters-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/google_preferred_source_badge_light.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Adeleye isn\u2019t talking from a position of momentum or leverage. He\u2019s talking from memory, from a fight two years ago that didn\u2019t just end in defeat but in a one-sided beating. When Adeleye tried to trade with Wardley the first time, he was overwhelmed almost immediately, learning the hard way that he wasn\u2019t on the same level.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, nothing about his trajectory has forced Wardley to look back.<\/p>\n<p>Adeleye is coming off a clear decision loss to Filip Hrgovic, a fight that pushed him further out of the heavyweight conversation rather than back into it. He isn\u2019t ranked by any of the four sanctioning bodies, and he isn\u2019t carrying a win that would justify being mentioned as a title challenger \u2014 let alone as a priority defense for a newly crowned champion.<\/p>\n<p>Yet Adeleye speaks as if timing is the only obstacle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI get to right my wrong,\u201d he said, acknowledging Wardley\u2019s status as a champion with a target on his back.<\/p>\n<p>That target, however, is aimed higher than Adeleye.<\/p>\n<p>Wardley\u2019s realistic options sit in a different bracket entirely, involving names that elevate his profile and his bank account. A rematch with a fighter he already dismantled \u2014 and who hasn\u2019t rebuilt his case since \u2014 offers neither.<\/p>\n<p>Adeleye can talk about revenge all he wants. Until he changes the direction of his career in the ring, it remains exactly that: talk, not a pathway back to Fabio Wardley.<\/p>\n<p>Olly Campbell has been covering boxing since 2014, offering readers a clear ringside perspective and thoughtful analysis on many of the sport\u2019s biggest nights. His work focuses on fighter tendencies, corner adjustments, and the technical details that shape high-level bouts. Over the years, Olly has reported on major cards in Las Vegas, New York, London, and across the UK boxing circuit, earning a reputation for levelheaded, detail-driven coverage.<\/p>\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.boxingnews24.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boxing News 24<\/a> \u00bb David Adeleye Talks Wardley Rematch \u2014 But Nothing Has Changed Since the Beating<\/p>\n<p>Last Updated on 12\/12\/2025 \t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe WBO world champion. That would be nice,\u201d David Adeleye said of Fabio Wardley, floating the idea of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-312714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}