{"id":61798,"date":"2025-04-30T02:37:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T02:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/61798\/"},"modified":"2025-04-30T02:37:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T02:37:09","slug":"miller-pulls-out-of-wardley-fight-reports-ipswich-town-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/61798\/","title":{"rendered":"Miller Pulls Out of Wardley Fight &#8211; Reports &#8211; Ipswich Town News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Miller Pulls Out of Wardley Fight &#8211; Reports<br \/>Tuesday, 29th Apr 2025  22:20<\/p>\n<p class=\"introtext\" style=\"font-size:1.1em\">Jarrell Miller is reported to have pulled out of the interim WBA World Heavyweight title fight with Fabio Wardley at Portman Road, leaving the Town-supporting boxer looking for a new opponent the fight on Saturday 7th June. <\/p>\n<p class=\"storytext\">According to various sources, Brooklyn-born Miller, 36, known as the Big Baby, has called off for reasons yet to be revealed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"storytext\">Chantry fighter Wardley\u2019s Queensberry Promotions management, run by Frank Warren, are now on the hunt for a new opponent for Portman Road\u2019s first ever boxing event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"storytext\">Miller, who has twice failed drugs tests, was facing having a portion of his purse withheld by the British Boxing Board of Control after he slapped Wardley at a press conference at Portman Road following the announcement of the fight earlier this month where he wore a Norwich City shirt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"storytext\">Meanwhile, Ipswich Borough Council has approved the club\u2019s application for a licence to stage the fight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"storytext\">Ipswich-born, Town-supporting Wardley has long held the ambition of holding a fight at Portman Road having become a familar face at Blues matches over the last few seasons, often sitting next to chairman and CEO Mark Ashton in the directors&#8217; box.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/17563_g.jpg\" style=\"max-width:580px;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Photo: Reuters<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<a name=\"comm\" id=\"comm\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please report offensive, libellous or inappropriate posts by using the links provided.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"post578881\" id=\"post578881\"><\/a><br clear=\"all\" \/><a name=\"post578882\" id=\"post578882\"><\/a><br clear=\"all\" \/><a name=\"last\" id=\"last\"><\/a><br \/>You need to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twtd.co.uk\/login\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">login<\/a> in order to post your comments&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miller Pulls Out of Wardley Fight &#8211; ReportsTuesday, 29th Apr 2025 22:20 Jarrell Miller is reported to have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[14889,14893,12733,1935,14894,94,14890,8641,14891,14887,1926,14888,25956,14892,12,125,14895,79,14897,14896,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-61798","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-alf-ramsey","9":"tag-blogs","10":"tag-bobby-robson","11":"tag-boxing","12":"tag-chatroom","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-football-club","15":"tag-football-news","16":"tag-forum","17":"tag-ipswich","18":"tag-ipswich-town","19":"tag-itfc","20":"tag-kieran-mckenna","21":"tag-message-board","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-polls","24":"tag-portman-road","25":"tag-sports","26":"tag-tractor-boys","27":"tag-tractorboys","28":"tag-uk","29":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114424594074407471","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}