Fabio Wardley will defend his British and Commonwealth heavyweight titles against Fraser Clarke this Sunday and it will be live on talkSPORT.
Wardley is undefeated and on a 16-fight knockout streak, beating David Adeleye on the undercard of Tyson Fury vs Francis Ngannou last time out.
The 29-year-old has dominated the domestic division and his next opponent will face a tough task to beat him in the ring.
Taking on that challenge is Clarke, who won bronze at the Tokyo Olympics and is yet to lose in his professional career.
Viddal Riley and Ben Whittaker will be on the undercard for Sunday’s event.
Wardley vs Clarke: Date and talkSPORT coverage
This heavyweight bout will take place on Sunday, March 31 and will be held at The O2 Arena in London.
The undercard action will get going from 7pm with the main event expected at 10pm.
talkSPORT will have live and exclusive heavyweight commentary of the fight night in the capital.
Our coverage will start on talkSPORT 2 at 6pm before moving to talkSPORT for the main event at 8.30pm with John Rawling and Spencer Oliver on commentary duty.
The fight will also be broadcast live on Sky Sports.
Wardley vs Clarke: Undercard
Subject to change
- MAIN EVENT: Fabio Wardley vs Fraser Clarke – for British and Commonwealth heavyweight titles
- Viddal Riley vs Mikael Lawal
- Ben Whittaker vs Leon Willings
- Florian Marku vs Chris Kongo
- Alen Babic vs Steve Robinson
- Callum Simpson vs Dulla Mbabe
Wardley vs Clarke: What has been 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 bout against Clarke, things went like this…
Clarke: He put a load of daft clauses in the contract, ‘just in case’ type things.
Wardley: There’s things in there contractually to cover certain circumstances.
Clarke: When you don’t back yourself that’s what you put in there, when you doubt yourself.
Wardley: If you doubt yourself you don’t take the fight when it first comes around.
Security keep Fabio Wardley and Frazer Clarke apart in tense talkSPORT studio encounter
Clarke: I didn’t ‘not take the fight’, did I? Did you not get offered the fight two days later?
Wardley: No. I didn’t. This is 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 back then and you still aren’t now. There’s a rematch clause covering a certain circumstance, based on the cut on my chin re-opening.
Clarke: At his last press conference he got put on the carpet and got a cut on his chin.
Wardley: I was stabbed in the face, but went on. It’s more specific than that, if it opens up earlier on there’s a clause of a rematch. In a voluntary British title fight it’s normal, you’re not mandatory, you had your mandatory and I’m doing you a favor. Who would you be fighting without me? Another boom.
Clarke: Who would you be fighting? Why haven’t you moved on? For more money in Saudi Arabia? Why didn’t you?
Wardley: Because I wanted a fight like this, I wanted to come back to the UK, I’m the champion and I picked you.
Clarke: So you picked this over the Saudi money? You’re lying.
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