“I felt a bit too comfortable maybe with the really early knockdown, then followed by another one in the third,” Wardley said during the kick-off press conference. “I thought this is near on a foregone conclusion. I’ve done it once, I’ve done it twice, I can get him out of there.
“I was a victim of my own success in them early stages. I just got trigger-happy, got carried away with trying to launch that right hand. In the moments when I did have him hurt, I don’t actually think I jumped on him enough.”
The mistake was not simply failing to throw enough punches. Wardley stopped disguising the right hand and beg


