Heavyweight Boxing

Whatever happens wardley is an absolute warrior

DDs jab is as much a defensive great shot as offensive

eye banjoed

DDs pace and fitness exceptional tonight

Heart

Foster had to stop it.

Incredible fight, and serious character shown by Dubois to recompose himself after those early knockdowns.

As said above his fitness was excellent as well.

an old school proper heavyweight fight! Best I’ve watched in a long time 🙌🏻

Wardley corner should be ashamed of themselves. He could barely stand or see for about 3 rounds there. Taking haymakers off a big puncher like Dubois.

The amount of punches that DDs jab saved him from!!!

Why slip a right hand when you can just land a thudding jab instead !

I must admit that fight gave me very mixed feelings. Incredible fight, and incredibly exciting, but the guilty part of feeling like Wardley's corner went too far in how much they were willing to risk his well-being.

For anyone who's familiar with CTE and it's effects later in life, it was probably in their mind late in that fight, every time Dubois landed a solid shot.

Wardley has an incredible chin on him and his desire to fight was amazing.
But if I'm honest, that fight should have been stopped 2 rounds earlier.
The ref and the doctor who checked Wardley's eye when the lad wobbled out of his corner at the start of the 9th were totally wrong to let him continue IMO.

Great fight and one that certainly evokes Rocky and the Hagler V Hearns era.
But I fear Wardley took a lot of damage there, that will affect him for quite a while.

Yeah I kind of get what you're saying there. It was a brilliant flight but towards the end it was getting uncomfortable with the state Wardley was in.

His chin is incredible. No idea how he can take those shots and not go down. Is he in the conversation for best chin of all time in HW division?