“It is what it is,” he said when asked his thoughts of his career trajectory. “How I feel don’t really matter. Some things could have been better, maybe be a bit [more] promoted, a bit more pushed, a bit more in that sense. It’s good. I got the British Cheavon Clarke has eyes on Chris Billam-Smith-Ryan Rozicki winner in nine fights. I don’t think a lot of people have done that. I fought for the European after 10 or 11 fights. I’ve achieved a lot in in that sense, though. I didn’t win the European but to get to that level in such a short period of time, I don’t think a lot of people can say they’ve done that and, of course, I’ve had a couple of [losses] but it is what it is. That’s a part of the game and it’s just going back and recalculating and showing that it was a blip.”
During the blip, Clarke got to see that boxing could be a fickle world.