This one has a bit of everything: hometown glory, heavyweight -dons and two big boys who don’t crawl around. Fabio Wardley finally landed the homecoming battle he knocked since Day Dot – and he didn’t just come home for a cup. He drags Jarrell “Big Baby” Miller in Ipswich for a real tear, with the interim WBA World Heavyweight band on the line.
Wardley: The tractor boy turned a wreckage
Fabio is unbeaten in 19, with 17 knockouts – not exactly shy of the hands. The last time out he flipped straight Frazer Clarke in one round, as if it were a bar, which rubbed their crazy from the previous year, who called every British and their nan Fight of the year. He has already been cleaned a decent part of the household scene – Gorman, Adelee, calls on – collect belts like stickers along the way.
Now he is top with the WBA and sniffs like a dog to Bacon around world title shots. This Portman Road Night? It is personal. His words:
“I’m not just coming up to blow to the crowd. I’m here to go to war. And believe me, I will go deep if I have to – blood, sweat, whatever. It’s all for me. ‘
Big baby’s back – and still hard as always
Jarrell Miller is maybe 36, but he still has a chin of brick and the mouth of a block that had ten red bulls before breakfast. He bullied Lucas Browne last year, had a decent lead at Dubois until the legs went, and then almost a decision on Andy Ruiz hampered – although the judges bottled it and called it a draw.
Spencer Brown, who supports Miller like a father at Sunday League, reckons:
“If I didn’t think he would beat Fabio, we wouldn’t get on a plane. Wardley is good, but he is about to find out how to chill more than you can swallow. ‘
Portman Road becomes a war zone
It’s not just a box night. This is the answer from Ipswich to Glastonbury – but instead of guitars, it is gloves and gumshields. Frank Warren, who eventually made this crazy idea happen, put it the best:
‘Fabio rattle about this Portman Road Fight since we first signed him. He has what he wanted, but now he has to deliver – and Miller is the size of a fridge with fists. “
Mark Ashton, chairman of Ipswich Town, also buzzed:
‘Four years we talked about this. It eventually happens. Fabio is one of our own, and this is the kind of night that will fall in the history of the club … if he wins. ‘
The Scrap: June 7 – Dazn got it, town is behind
The show is called Run to adversityWhat a polite way to say, “Yes, it will be rough.” Dazn will stream fate, alive and exclusively, and they think it could be Wardley’s breakthrough moment. Michael Ridout of Dazn summed it up nicely:
“Fabio is on fire, Miller never stops – that’s the perfect score.”
Tickets fall on April 7 for Ipswich Town Season Ticket holders. General Selling Hits April 9th.
Last updated on 04/05/2025
