Usyk’s Silence After Wardley KO Fuels Fury Trilogy Talk

Oleksandr Usyk’s silence since interim WBA heavyweight champion Fabio Wardley’s 11th round knockout of interim WBO champion Joseph Parker on October 25 has been worrying.

Act Usyk disappeared after Wardley’s big win

Undisputed champion Usyk has registered that he will face the winner of the fight. His silence since Wardley’s upset win over Parker suggests to some that he is not interested in facing him.

Fabio (20-0-1, 19 KO) has a different type of fighting style compared to Parker. He has high productivity and presses non-stop. The 38-year-old Usyk (24-0, 15 KO) will not be able to rely on scoring a knockout against the steel-chinned Wardley as he did in his last fifth-round knockout win over Daniel Dubois on July 19, 2025.

Is Usyk weighing legacy or payday?

If Usyk is still holding out hope that Tyson Fury will come out of retirement to face him in a high-paying trilogy bout, it would make sense for him to edge out the 30-year-old Wardley. Financially, it makes sense for Usyk to wait for that fight. He will have to vacate his WBO title if he chooses to face Fury because the WBO has already mandated that Usyk must face mandatory next. This is Wardley now holding the WBO interim belt.

The hero fell silent as Wardley waited

Analyst Gareth A. said: “It’s going to be presented to him,” Davis told BoxNation on Oleksandr Usyk not saying a word since Fabio Wardley’s upset win over Joseph Parker on October 25, 2025. “He’s been deafeningly silent, which is a little concerning, given that he said he was going to fight the winner.”

It will be a tough fight for Usyk to face Wardley. He had problems because he beat Fury and Anthony Joshua twice. None of these fighters have the motor or chin that Fabio has. The thought of a fight against Wardley would make any fighter think twice, especially if he has the lucrative potential of a trilogy bout against Fury.

And so is the age factor for Usyk, who is 38 years old. He’s not young, and he’s already rejected the idea of ​​fighting another young heavyweight, Moses Itauma. Wardley is clearly not young, but he is much younger than him, the 37-year-old Fury, and the 36-year-old Joshua.

Wardley’s motor and chin raise real questions

“It will be up to him in terms of the commercial viability here as to whether or not this fight works and it needs a big fight on the field for it to work,” Gareth said of the fight against Wardley. “And we need Fabio to be in the public domain, otherwise Usyk will say: ‘You know what? I’m going to have to go through 12 tough rounds with this bugger. It will keep coming. I’m really going to have to fight him. I will leave the place.”

It will be a tough fight for Usyk to face Wardley. Just considering how Usyk struggled against Fury twice in 2024, it wouldn’t be a huge shock if he lost to Wardley. It’s a bad style match for him. If he can count on knocking Wardley out early like he did against Dubois, it will be worth the risk in his fight. But he doesn’t hit hard enough to seriously hurt a fighter like Wardley, meaning he would have to go 12 tough rounds to defeat him.

“We know that Tyson Fury is pursuing Usyk for a third fight. That is becoming more and more widespread [after Wardley’s win]. “It’s really after that third fight,” Gareth said.