| Wardley showing his town adversity there 22:46 - Mar 31 with 1376 views | FrimleyBlue |
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| Wardley showing his town adversity there on 23:45 - Mar 31 with 1244 views | Wallingford_Boy |
I mean fair play to him carrying on with no nose, but Jesus Christ, how corrupt is boxing!
One judge gave it as a land slide against him, yet somehow he didn’t lose!?
Great fight, but he clearly lost. |  |
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| Wardley showing his town adversity there on 00:11 - Apr 1 with 1175 views | backwaywhen |
| Wardley showing his town adversity there on 23:45 - Mar 31 by Wallingford_Boy |
I mean fair play to him carrying on with no nose, but Jesus Christ, how corrupt is boxing!
One judge gave it as a land slide against him, yet somehow he didn’t lose!?
Great fight, but he clearly lost. |
Take the bloody nose away and result was fair , no early injury and he would have put him away IMHO |  | | |
| Wardley showing his town adversity there on 01:18 - Apr 1 with 1114 views | lizzibee |
| Wardley showing his town adversity there on 23:45 - Mar 31 by Wallingford_Boy |
I mean fair play to him carrying on with no nose, but Jesus Christ, how corrupt is boxing!
One judge gave it as a land slide against him, yet somehow he didn’t lose!?
Great fight, but he clearly lost. |
Not forgetting that Clarke spat his shield out a few times to buy some time for recovery. Having been at the fight, I think the second judge was wrong - it was way closer than that. Personally I think Fabio shaded it, but it was very tight | | | |
| Wardley showing his town adversity there on 08:46 - Apr 1 with 844 views | smithy69 |
| Wardley showing his town adversity there on 23:45 - Mar 31 by Wallingford_Boy |
I mean fair play to him carrying on with no nose, but Jesus Christ, how corrupt is boxing!
One judge gave it as a land slide against him, yet somehow he didn’t lose!?
Great fight, but he clearly lost. |
I can talk from experience here, but he didn’t lose the fight IMO. I had him winning by 1 round, but regardless of that you have to beat the champion, not draw, and I feel Clarke didn’t do enough
You have to remember that there was a 10-8 round, and a point deduction which I scored as another 10-8. That’s 4 rounds Clarke had to make up just after those . The ref who gave it to Clarke by 5 rounds is an imbecile. It’s impossible to give it by 5 | | | |
| Wardley showing his town adversity there on 09:40 - Apr 1 with 726 views | ArnoldMoorhen |
| Wardley showing his town adversity there on 08:46 - Apr 1 by smithy69 |
I can talk from experience here, but he didn’t lose the fight IMO. I had him winning by 1 round, but regardless of that you have to beat the champion, not draw, and I feel Clarke didn’t do enough
You have to remember that there was a 10-8 round, and a point deduction which I scored as another 10-8. That’s 4 rounds Clarke had to make up just after those . The ref who gave it to Clarke by 5 rounds is an imbecile. It’s impossible to give it by 5 |
The Sky Viewer vote had it very even.
Fabio clearly won the 11th, which put him up in my opinion, and both had moments in the Final Round, which I would have scored even. I think Fabio edged it because of the deduction, so ultimately a draw is a reasonable result.
Clarke collapsed at the end. He couldn't have gone another round.
I would love to see Fabio take a year out now and work on rebuilding his technique. He is amazingly brave, and has superb combination work, but his defence was almost non-existent. Against a crisp, and more mobile, range jabber like Joshua (who is the next level up, and therefore the kind of opponent he should be aspiring to fight, and so planning for, long-term) he would have been taken apart.
His only hope to take the next step is to improve his defence, in my opinion. Had he had excellent training as an amateur from young, just imagine how good he could have been.
He did himself, and ITFC, proud. An amazing man. | | | |
| Wardley showing his town adversity there on 09:51 - Apr 1 with 697 views | Wallingford_Boy |
| Wardley showing his town adversity there on 09:40 - Apr 1 by ArnoldMoorhen |
The Sky Viewer vote had it very even.
Fabio clearly won the 11th, which put him up in my opinion, and both had moments in the Final Round, which I would have scored even. I think Fabio edged it because of the deduction, so ultimately a draw is a reasonable result.
Clarke collapsed at the end. He couldn't have gone another round.
I would love to see Fabio take a year out now and work on rebuilding his technique. He is amazingly brave, and has superb combination work, but his defence was almost non-existent. Against a crisp, and more mobile, range jabber like Joshua (who is the next level up, and therefore the kind of opponent he should be aspiring to fight, and so planning for, long-term) he would have been taken apart.
His only hope to take the next step is to improve his defence, in my opinion. Had he had excellent training as an amateur from young, just imagine how good he could have been.
He did himself, and ITFC, proud. An amazing man. |
Don’t get me wrong he did amazingly in the circumstances, he just didn’t box as well as I’d expected.
As you said, no defence and not sure he’d cope with the step up to the big boys.
Brilliant fight though. | |
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| Wardley showing his town adversity there on 10:39 - Apr 1 with 629 views | charlie1 |
Out of curiosity, seeing as Clarke wore THAT shirt a few weeks back, did he celebrate the draw with a lap of honour, open-topped bus ride and a civic reception where he was awarded the keys to the city of N****ch? | | | |
| Wardley showing his town adversity there on 11:14 - Apr 1 with 566 views | BLUEBEAT |
| Wardley showing his town adversity there on 00:11 - Apr 1 by backwaywhen |
Take the bloody nose away and result was fair , no early injury and he would have put him away IMHO |
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| Wardley showing his town adversity there on 12:39 - Apr 1 with 495 views | Jimmy86 |
Got to say I, personally think Fabio was quite lucky last night... Yea he knocked Clarke down and there was the point deducted for the low blow, but to me Clarke looked to have had the majority of it... Clarke did lose his gumshield a few times though, as others have mentioned.
Fabio did have so much guts and determination to continue with the damage to his nose.. showed the heart of a warrior.. wonder if there'll be a rematch at Portman Road?! | | | |
| Wardley showing his town adversity there on 12:47 - Apr 1 with 461 views | portmanroadblue |
Thought a draw was a fair result, Fabio has a lot to work on for the next step up, looked very raw. |  | | |
| Wardley showing his town adversity there on 14:38 - Apr 1 with 388 views | PimsNumber1 |
Courageous fighter .Just shaded it for me.Looks far to raw to fight higher than British title at the moment.Little defence and too many haymaker wasting energy but what an itfc warrior 👍🏻👏🏻 |  | | |
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