Fabio Wardley ‘not planning on rolling over for Oleksandr Usyk’

Those same limitations appeared evident for nine rounds against Justis Huni in June, before, not unlike against Parker, he stopped the Australian in the 10th. The 33-year-old Parker, similarly, was mostly outboxing Wardley, who was the more tired of the two when he succeeded in transforming the momentum of their contest with his raw power in the 10th round. Pre-fight Parker, who had beaten Martin Bakole, Zhilei Zhang and Deontay Wilder in successive contests, represented, after Usyk, the world’s most in-form heavyweight, but Wardley has inherited his status in the queue to fight the Ukrainian and enhanced his reputation as an entertaining contender who refuses to accept that he can be beaten.