\n The Chantry puncher (20-1-1, 19 KO) will bid to win back the WBO belt he lost to Dubois back in May when they collide at the O2 Arena on Saturday night.\n<\/p>\n
\n And the 31-year-old, who wears the Town badge and colours into the ring, says he’s always wanted to give back to the community, with investing in his beloved Blues a long-term aim.\n<\/p>\n
\n Suffolk pop superstar Ed Sheeran is Town’s most high profile celebrity investor, while NBA legend Udonis Haslem and ex-NFL star Marques Colston have also put money into the club recently.\n<\/p>\n
\n Fabio Wardley with Ipswich Town CEO Mark Ashton, right (Image: Leigh Dawney\/Queensberry)\n<\/p>\n
\n “I’ve tried to give back to Ipswich, the community, the town, in my own way, whichever way I can,” said Wardley, speaking exclusively to the EADT and Ipswich Star.\n<\/p>\n
\n “I do a lot of work with the Ipswich Town Foundation, speaking events and working with the kids and things like that.\n<\/p>\n
\n “And I’ve done that to try and give back to the club and just other little bits as and where I can to lend my hand and just be your face, and try and do my best for the club.”\n<\/p>\n
\n He grinned: “The financials aren’t there yet. I’m not any sort of stakeholder or anything.\n<\/p>\n
\n “But look, that is another part of the dream. Because to really have a real permanent, strong attachment into the club like that would be something I’d absolutely have.\n<\/p>\n
\n “So yeah, a few more 02 Arena sell-outs, maybe I need a big Wembley fight or something like that.\n<\/p>\n
\n “And then I can give Mark (Ashton) a call and do something there.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Fabio Wardley faces Daniel Dubois again this weekend (Image: Leigh Dawney)\n<\/p>\n
\n Both he and Dubois are predicting an early stoppage in Saturday’s rematch, and both certainly pack the power to do that.\n<\/p>\n
\n Wardley, who decked Dubois twice in the first fight before being stopped on his feet in the 11th round, said: \u201cThe plan and objective is always to get him out of there as quickly and as soon as possible.\n<\/p>\n
\n “And if anyone out of the two of us has the more evidence of that, it is me. The knockdown in the first and knockdown in the third. And if I capitalised on those moments, I would have already done that. I would have already ticked that off.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cSo, that is always the plan. That is always the objective. I’m not trying to hang around in there and get punched in the head for any longer than I need to.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cBut look, if it doesn’t go like that, then I’m going to be in there swinging it out until the final bell.\u201d\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chantry puncher (20-1-1, 19 KO) will bid to win back the WBO belt he lost to Dubois…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":803898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-803897","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\/803897","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=803897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/803898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}