Fabio Wardley produced one of the knockouts of the year this past Saturday.
Taking on Frazer Clarke for a second time after their first fight in March ended in a draw, there was no mistaking who came out victorious in this fight.
The image of the effect on Clarke’s face after the punch was shared worldwide as the impact of Wardley’s power was on full display.
Clarke subsequently had to have surgery as it was diagnosed that he’d broken his jaw in the fight.
But the devastating effect of the punch is now seemingly being investigated according to Ben Shalom.
Shalom, the promoter for Frazer Clarke, was speaking to YouTube channel Sportsman Boxing and has lifted the lid of the current state of play.
BOXXER founder Shalom has stated that he and his team are investigating and looking very closely at the gloves worn by Fabio Wardley for the Clarke fight.
“We’ll look at what the gloves situation was there – I won’t get too much into it…
“But there was a lot of talk during the week as to the gloves that were being worn by Fabio Wardley.
“A doctor said to me that there’s no way in hell any boxing glove should be able to have that level of damage.
“But it was a clinical, clinical and to the fight by Fabio Wardley.
“But as I say, anything can happen in heavyweight boxing – Frazer will learn from it and he has a massive career ahead”.
Just in that gambit, Ben Shalom implies that there were murmurings around the gloves that Fabio Wardley that was planning on wearing in the week running up to the fight.
What that talk was isn’t clear.
So the presenter asked the BOXXER supremo to provide more detail on what exactly they’re looking at with the gloves situation.
“Yes. It’s something that we are looking at very carefully at the moment with our team.
“Not just for big Frazer’s sake, but these customised gloves that are starting to get introduced… The word customised, the fact that they’re different, you’ve got to look into it.
“And as I mentioned, I’m not going to get too much into it because it’s an ongoing process but during the week we were warned repeatedly by Frazer’s team around what gloves could be being used.
“That’s no excuse.
“Frazer lost the fight fair and square.
“It’s the damage that that can cause and that will have to be looked at”.
This is likely to turn into quite an intriguing situation.
Although Shalom is clear that there are no excuses from Frazer Clarke and that Fabio Wardley won the fight fairly, it seems that the state of boxing gloves used by fighters may get brought into the spotlight after that display.
Whether that will have implications on future fights remains to be seen.
To be clear, there are no suggestions that Wardley has done anything wrong or illegal and it may be that the review from Shalom’s team may not bring out anything untoward.
But it looks as though there will be some type of microscope put onto customised gloves in the future.
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