{"id":808246,"date":"2026-10-20T04:28:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T04:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/808246\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T04:28:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T04:28:16","slug":"fabio-wardley-admits-preparation-for-daniel-dubois-rematch-wasnt-ideal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/808246\/","title":{"rendered":"Fabio Wardley admits preparation for Daniel Dubois rematch &#8216;wasn&#8217;t ideal&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following a brutal and one-sided rematch loss to Daniel Dubois, Fabio Wardley immediately voiced his desire to fight again while admitting his preparation this time \u201cwasn\u2019t ideal\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The contest came five months after their hellacious first encounter in which Dubois, after being dropped twice in the opening three rounds, steadily pounded the resistance from his rival. The beating Wardley took back then \u2013 bloodied and bruised, he was unsteady on his feet for several rounds before the end came in the 11th \u2013 left many questioning if an immediate rematch was the right thing for Wardley to do.<\/p>\n<p>Wardley, however, was determined to regain the WBO heavyweight title he\u2019d lost. Financially, too, it would have made sense. <\/p>\n<p>Dubois won the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.boxingscene.com\/articles\/daniel-dubois-blasts-out-fabio-wardley-in-one-sided-rematch\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> return in two rounds<\/a>, dropping Wardley inside the first 20 seconds and administering a patient but clinical beating upon his rival. It was Wardley\u2019s second consecutive defeat following a gruelling run of bouts that saw him come from behind to beat Justis Huni and Joseph Parker, after engaging in a hellacious back-and-forth 12-round draw with Frazer Clarke.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can really shorten it and say the preparation for me wasn\u2019t ideal and Daniel learned the most from the first fight and came out with a better game plan,\u201d Wardley, 20-2-1 (19 KOs), told DAZN as he made his way from the ring to the dressing room. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s all it was if you want to boil it down to the nitty-gritties. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut there\u2019s time for that later when we go over it as a team, we sit down, and we go over the details of what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For Dubois, it\u2019s onwards and upwards. The defeats to Joe Joyce and Oleksandr Usyk (twice) appear to have served as crucial education. As well as the two victories over Wardley, he can also boast stoppages of Anthony Joshua and Filip Hrgovic.<\/p>\n<p>Wardley can take encouragement from that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now, I lost,\u201d he said. \u201cIt is what it is. Daniel\u2019s a testament to losing and coming back and winning the world title for a second time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will be looking to do the same thing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following a brutal and one-sided rematch loss to Daniel Dubois, Fabio Wardley immediately voiced his desire to fight&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":808247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6102,10078,4035,77989,6663,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-808246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxingscene","tag-daniel-dubois","tag-fabio-wardley","tag-rematch","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808246","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=808246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/808247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}