The Ring magazine Fight of the Year
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Oct 16, 2026
Richie WoodhallGUEST
You've gotta give him immense credit for the, for the way he, he came back in that fight.
Steve BunceHOST
In the Outstanding Fight of the Year, not even to say contender, 'cause it's Fight of the Year, in that-
Richie WoodhallGUEST
Definitely
Steve BunceHOST
...
Steve BunceHOST
in that outstanding Fight of the Year at the Co-op Live back in May, Fabio Wardley was never down, but he was hurt.
Steve BunceHOST
Stumbling or wobbled, you can choose whatever word you like, Fabio might dispute it.
Richie WoodhallGUEST
Yeah.
T.J. RivesHOST
Brandon Figueroa, who you heard recently on this pod, defending his featherweight title.
T.J. RivesHOST
And we got Dubois-Wardley, the rematch of what is arguably the fight of the year to this point to go over, plus Oshaki Foster joining us on this pod before his junior lightweight unification battle with Emmanuel Navarrete, not this weekend, but next weekend, October 24th.
T.J. RivesHOST
Jam packed pod.
T.J. RivesHOST
I am the somewhat competent host, TJ Reeves.
Dan RafaelHOST
Dubois, you know, d- He doesn't really do that either, uh, maybe unless the other guy starts with him.
Dan RafaelHOST
So from that perspective, it hasn't been, like, much fireworks.
Dan RafaelHOST
Uh, but this is the kind of fight like we were talking about, Fight of the Year contender.
Dan RafaelHOST
You don't need to have them shoot their mouths off.
Teddy Atlas IIIHOST
It was one of the best fights I've watched in quite some time, especially for the heavyweights.
Teddy Atlas IIIHOST
I think it was fight of the year.
Teddy Atlas IIIHOST
The heart by both of these men, tremendous.
Teddy Atlas IIIHOST
Chins, too.
Rob TebbuttHOST
[laughs] Andy, we're gonna come to you for the rematch, the fight that we've all came together to discuss today.
Rob TebbuttHOST
Daniel Dubois versus Fabio Wardley 2 on the back of their fight of the year contender earlier on this year.
Rob TebbuttHOST
Excitement level for you, where are we at?
Andy ClarkeHOST
High.
13 MINS LATER
Fabio WardleySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I had no real heavy injury.
Fabio WardleySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It's just, look, you add a bit of, of blood and a bit of sweat, and everything looks 10 times more dramatic than it would do anyway.
Rob TebbuttHOST
Invariably, when you're in a Fight of the Year, you know, people are always wanting to see the second fight.
Rob TebbuttHOST
But a lot of people weren't sure whether we, whether we would, whether Daniel would kind of go off, and you would have a bit of time to, to rest and recover.
Brandon FigueroaGUEST
Um, I really don't know, but obv- obviously I would like to fight Espinoza.
Brandon FigueroaGUEST
You know, the, he's a Mexican champion, and I feel like fighting him would be for sure Fight of the Year candidate.
Brandon FigueroaGUEST
Um, there's also Angelo Leo.
Dan RafaelHOST
[laughs] That's a good fight.
Billy DibGUEST
He dug so deep, mate.
Billy DibGUEST
That was truly a fight that deserves to be in the list of Fight of the Year.
Billy DibGUEST
No doubt about it.
Billy DibGUEST
He definitely put on a spectacle.
SeanHOST
Ultimately, the KO came in the 15th round, the final round, but it was a brilliant fight throughout.
SeanHOST
The fight was actually named Ring Magazine Fight of the Year.
SeanHOST
So whilst we might be saying it's a forgotten fight, it's only forgotten in the sense that how many years on now? We're at 30-odd years later.
SeanHOST
People do forget about this fight because of the fact that it's so long ago now.
SeanHOST
Absolutely fantastic fight.
JohnstonHOST
I mean, there's even Mike Ayala, I remember reading that he was actually...
JohnstonHOST
I believe he was on crack at the time and I think he even took some crack before going into this fight believe it or not and you wouldn't think it for one minute maybe if he hadn't have done that he probably wouldn't have been stopped in 15 rounds but Danny Lopez and we've explained that in the Sanchez career profile again where how much of a he was that little giant really in the television era in the 70s and going into the 80s and Lopez was a huge name and this was a great great fight fight of the year obviously for for uh 79 but overshadowed it really does and The story and behind that, there's a lot in there where, again, you know, maybe we could bring to light some of these in legendary nights.
JohnstonHOST
But I'll jump on to the next one.
Frank WarrenGUEST
Fabulous fights.
Frank WarrenGUEST
You know, quite a few of them have been nominated for Fight of the Year, the main event.
Frank WarrenGUEST
So, yeah, it's
Kugan CassiusHOST
good times.
26 MINS LATER
Frank WarrenGUEST
Now the 17th of October in London, 0-2.
Frank WarrenGUEST
The big one, the rematch.
Frank WarrenGUEST
Fight of the year rematch.
Frank WarrenGUEST
That's going to be something special as well.
Steve KimHOST
He's in the Hall of Fame.
Steve KimHOST
Was in the Fight of the Year.
Steve KimHOST
Had rivalries.
Steve KimHOST
Gave us great moments.