Fabio Wardley, the white-collar brawler turned world champion: 'A ceiling? I don't think I have one'

For Fabio Wardley, none of this was in the plan.Not the title belts. Not the ring walks under stadium lights at the home of his beloved Ipswich Town or having rubbed shoulders with music star Ed Sheeran. Certainly not conversations about fighting Oleksandr Usyk, an all-time heavyweight great.That is because just a little more than a decade ago, Wardley, now 31, was sitting behind a desk in recruitment sales, working a standard nine-to-five job matching people with roles in health and social care. Boxing was not his life. It was not even his sport. Football was his weekend hobby after a brief spell at at the academy of Ipswich as a child.Advertisement