Alas, that became the challenge in round 10. Rather than watch, you wanted to now close your eyes, or turn away. You hoped that in Wardley’s corner the men responsible for his safety were seeing what we saw, seeing it the way we saw it, and had their eyes open. Forget anyone else. It was now they, the corner team, for whom the phrase “don’t blink” really applied. It was his corner team, as well as the referee Howard Foster, who needed to take a long look at Fabio Wardley and see something more than just a heavyweight with a puncher’s chance and a warrior’s heart. See him as he is, you wanted to shout, not as he was. If you need a reset, please blink twice, erase your memory, and treat Wardley as you see him now, standing in front of you: the flat, broken and bloodied nose, the grotesque eye, the hematoma above it. Don’t ignore it. We have seen enough.
Fabio Wardley-Daniel Dubois was a fight so good it became hard to watch
