Although TV and Clarke had clashed on social media in the past, both appeared to have moved on and have spoken about the “responsibility” of bringing boxing to free-to-air television. But TKV’s withdrawal reignited old tensions.<\/p>\n
Referring to a heated media interview earlier this week, TKV said: “He has a persona – he’s a good guy in front of the cameras, but behind the scenes he makes cheeky comments.”<\/p>\n
TKV was particularly angered by allegedly being called a “thug”.<\/p>\n
“Never in your life label me a thug again. Never label me a wannabe gangster,” he said.<\/p>\n
“I’m a uni graduate, I’m a family man and I’m a professional boxer.”<\/p>\n
Clarke, from nearby Burton-upon-Trent, said: “Don’t try to act like it then. Why can’t I make cheeky comments – are you my dad?”<\/p>\n
Londoner TVK responded: “Any young kids from inner cities, don’t let anyone label you a thug.”<\/p>\n
A grinning Clarke then said: “Smartest thing you’ve ever said. Let’s give him a round of applause.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Although TV and Clarke had clashed on social media in the past, both appeared to have moved on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-310548","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}