Fabio Wardley vs Fraser Clarke LIVE: Start time, undercard and talkSPORT coverage as heavyweight rivals clash for British title
Fabio Wardley will defend his British and Commonwealth heavyweight titles against Fraser Clarke this evening and it will be live on talkSPORT.
Wardley is undefeated and on a 16-fight knockout streak, beating David Adeleye on the Tyson Fury vs. Francis Ngannou undercard last time out.
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The 29-year-old has dominated the domestic division and his next opponent will have the difficult task of beating him in the ring.
Clarke, who won bronze at the Tokyo Olympics and has yet to lose in his professional career, is taking on that challenge.
Viddal Riley and Ben Whittaker will be on the undercard for Sunday’s event.
At the weigh-in, Clarke came 19th and Wardley 17th, 5 pounds.
Wardley vs Clarke: date and talkSPORT coverage
This 12-round heavyweight fight takes place on Sunday March 31 at the O2 Arena in London.
The undercard action will begin from 7 p.m. and the main event is expected at 10 p.m.
talkSPORT will feature live, exclusive heavyweight commentary from fight night in the capital.
Our coverage will begin on talkSPORT 2 at 6pm before moving to talkSPORT for the main event at 8.30pm with Adam Smith, Gareth A Davies, John Rawling and Spencer Oliver handling commentary.
The fight will also be broadcast live on Sky Sports.
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Wardley vs. Clarke: Undercard
Subject to change
- MAIN EVENT: Fabio Wardley vs. Fraser Clarke – for the British and Commonwealth heavyweight titles
- Florian Marku vs. Chris Kongo
- Viddal Riley vs. Mikael Lawal
- Ben Whittaker vs Leon Willings
- Alen Babic vs. Steve Robinson
- Callum Simpson vs. Dulla Mbabe
Wardley v Clarke: what was said?
Security had to keep the rivals separated in the talkSPORT studio as they discussed the upcoming fight.
When Wardley was asked if there was a rematch clause in the Clarke fight, it went like this…
Clarke: He put a bunch of stupid clauses in the contract, like “just in case”.
Wardley: There are things in there contractually to cover certain circumstances.
Clarke: When you don’t support yourself, that’s what you put in there, when you doubt yourself.
Wardley: If you doubt yourself, you don’t fight it when it comes up.
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Clarke: I didn’t “take the fight”, did I? Weren’t you offered the fight two days later?
Wardley: No, I didn’t. That’s what I mean, you and your promoter need to have a long conversation with each other because you’re not on the same page and you haven’t been for a while, you weren’t not then and you still aren’t. NOW. There is a rematch clause covering certain circumstances, based on reopening the cut on my chin.
Clarke: During his last press conference, he was put on the mat and had a cut on his chin.
Wardley: I was stabbed in the face, but keep going. It’s more specific than that, if it opens early, there’s a rematch clause. In a voluntary fight for the British title, that’s normal, you’re not mandatory, you had your mandatory and I’m doing you a favor. Who would you fight against without me? Another tramp.
Clarke: Who would you fight? Why didn’t you move? For more money in Saudi Arabia? Why didn’t you do it?
Wardley: Because I wanted a fight like this, I wanted to come back to the UK, I’m the champion and I chose you.
Clarke: So you chose that over Saudi money? You lie.
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Combat Ratings:
Wardley-2/5
Clarke – 15/8
Draw – 16/1
*odds subject to change
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