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Wardley would still love an opportunity to take on Usyk, who still holds the WBA, WBC and IBF heavyweight belts, but accepts it is a case of having to bide his time.<\/p>\n
“That’s up to the man himself. A fight between us could be as far away or as close as he wants it to be. It could be next or never,” he said.<\/p>\n
“He holds the keys in the division, he’s earned that right to dictate things.”<\/p>\n
Another opponent Wardley would love to face is former world champion Tyson Fury, who announced the end of his most recent ‘retirement’ two weeks ago.<\/p>\n
“He wants a little warm-up fight and then to try and grab a world title around the summer time,” said 31-year-old Wardley.<\/p>\n
“We were trying to poke and prod him into a fight but I don’t think he wants to jump that deep into the water after a year out of the ring. He’s going to dip his toe back in and maybe we can catch him in the summer.”<\/p>\n
Wardley believes Usyk might be reluctant to take on Fury again in the short term, having beaten him twice already, so Wardley represents the latter’s best opportunity of a world title shot.<\/p>\n
“There’s only two options for that – me and Usyk. As a plan he might try to snatch mine off me and then try and get hold of the Usyk fight again,” he added.<\/p>\n
Listen to Graeme McLoughlin’s full BBC Radio Suffolk interview with Fabio Wardley from 18:45 GMT on Friday.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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