{"id":315226,"date":"2025-11-29T22:57:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T22:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/315226\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T22:57:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T22:57:10","slug":"clarke-vs-tkv-underdog-jeamie-tkv-tshikeva-hurts-olympian-frazer-clarke-in-the-11th-before-points-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/315226\/","title":{"rendered":"Clarke vs TKV: Underdog Jeamie ‘TKV’ Tshikeva hurts Olympian Frazer Clarke in the 11th before points win"},"content":{"rendered":"

Around 3,500 vocal fans filled the intimate arena, jeering TKV on his ring walk. ‘Big Fraze’, from nearby Burton-upon-Trent, received a rousing reception in return.<\/p>\n

Much to the fans’ delight, he asserted himself in the opening round, snapping a jab to the body before ripping in stinging uppercuts that clearly troubled TKV.<\/p>\n

But the Tottenham man – whose family boasts a fascinating history<\/a>, with both his father and grandfather serving in the Zairean army – showed his fighting spirit and settled into the contest. <\/p>\n

The bout had originally been scheduled for October before a rib injury forced TKV out. The postponement reignited tensions, souring a once-respectful rivalry. <\/p>\n

Clarke’s corner repeatedly protested low blows from TKV, some drifting in on the blindside of the referee, who issued a warning in the third. Moments later, another borderline shot earned TKV the point deduction.<\/p>\n

Jabs were scarce; instead, the fight descended into clinches from Clarke and heavy leaning from TKV, with lunging, telegraphed punches punctuating the action.<\/p>\n

TKV found success with his left hook and Clarke with his uppercut, but both men soaked up the shots as if they were bouncing off stone.<\/p>\n

Just as the contest seemed to be petering out, TKV – his right eye badly swollen – detonated a left hook that left Clarke reeling in the 11th.<\/p>\n

Clarke stayed upright only by leaning into TKV, looking lost as the referee moved in for a closer look.<\/p>\n

His coach, Angel Fernandez, looked set on pulling him out, but Clarke insisted on continuing. <\/p>\n

He left the ring without giving a post-fight interview, still appearing shell-shocked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Around 3,500 vocal fans filled the intimate arena, jeering TKV on his ring walk. ‘Big Fraze’, from nearby…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-315226","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\/315226","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=315226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}