The ability to turn any fight his way in the blink of an eye has made Fabio Wardley one of the the most fan friendly, exciting fighters in the sport, but he is smart enough to realise that whilst his one-punch power is a rare but powerful gift, it isn’t one he should be relying on if he is to be successful at the sharp end of the heavyweight division.

On October 25, Wardley (19-0, 18 KOs), the WBA interim heavyweight champion, will fight New Zealand’s WBO interim champion Joseph Parker (36-3, 24 KOs) at London’s O2 Arena. The winner will all but guarantee himself a shot at one of the belts held by undisputed champion Oleksandr Usyk. The event will be broadcast on DAZN Pay-Per-View.

Since he turned professional after his short but well-documented run as a white-collar boxer, Wardley has made eye-opening progress but the frustrating nine-plus rounds he spent trying to pin down the talented but unproven Justis Huni in June made him realise just how much he still has left to learn.

Trailing on the scorecards and seemingly out of ideas, the 30-year-old from Ipswich dug deep and found a fight-ending right hand midway through the 10th round.

Wardley is confident but also extremely realistic and his post-fight debrief will have started the moment he got back to a jubilant dressing room.

Some aspects of his performance will have been stood out as immediately correctable to Wardley and his training team at Ben Davison Performance Centre. Others will have only become apparent as they pored over video footage of the fight.

Wardley feels lucky that he has reached this stage and still has so may areas he can improve in.

“There's multiple” Wardley said during an appearance on talkSPORT.

“Maybe not too many I want to spill and share online for everyone to research but there's a lot.

“There’s very obvious ones to take from that and some not so obvious. Subtle ones really that me and the team have paid some close attention to and adjustments we need to make.

“It’s not always to do with the fight itself on the night. There’s preparations to adjust and the way we go about things and leading up to the fight as well but, ultimately, still coming through with the win in that fight did me a huge favour in the sense of being able to re-evaluate, re-look at myself.”

The dramatic right hand that poleaxed Huni earned Wardley the massive fight with Parker and moved him to within touching distance of a world title fight, but he hasn’t allowed it to overshadow everything that went before it.

Instead of taking a sideways step and practicing the tweaks and adjustments he has been implementing into his game, Wardley leapt at the chance to take on the experienced, in-form Parker.

Rather approaching the task with any sense of trepidation, Wardley believes that he will be a much better fighter having navigated his way through the puzzles Huni posed him.

"If I had a plain sailed through that fight and got everything perfect, I'd be going into this fight with Joseph Parker even less experienced because I'd have less accountability, less to look at myself and go, ‘Actually, hang on. We need to adjust X,Y and Z and change these things’ so in a sense it is a blessing in disguise.

“Ultimately, I know I'm 20 fights in and stuff but I am still very much learning on the job.”