Wardley vs Clarke 2: Fight time, undercard, latest odds, prediction and ring walks tonight

Just implicit six months person passed present since the duo archetypal met successful an unforgettable showdown astatine the O2 Arena, erstwhile Clarke was enactment down successful the 5th circular of a pulsating back-and-forth tussle and humor from a nasty chemoreceptor wounded splattered each implicit Wardley’s look arsenic the big-hitting duo continued to speech immense blows successful an all-out warfare that went the afloat 12 rounds.

It was an highly hard combat to score, with a important 3rd paper of 113-113 ruling the contention a split-decision gully - seeing Wardley clasp his British, Commonwealth, WBA Continental and European heavweight belts - aft 1 justice had opted for a constrictive Wardley triumph and the different a wider Clarke victory.

Now they hole to bash it each implicit again, with Wardley, 29, determined to present a much decisive show this clip astir aft the lone flimsy blot connected his different pristine nonrecreational copybook that has seen him notch 17 wins and 16 by knockout, including against David Adeleye successful different all-British matter successful Riyadh past October.

Tokyo 2020 Olympic bronze medalist Clarke, meanwhile, volition beryllium hopeless to beryllium that his champion accidental to bushed Wardley has not already gone arsenic the 33-year-old ‘Big Fraz’ looks for a connection triumph to propel his short-lived nonrecreational vocation to a caller level.

The combat takes spot contiguous connected Saturday October 12, 2024 astatine the Kingdom Arena successful Saudi Arabia - portion of the latest high-profile Riyadh Season lawsuit successful boxing.

Wardley vs Clarke 2 is connected the undercard of Beterbiev vs Bivol and, you would think, should person co-main lawsuit billing, though the fearsome Jai Opetaia is besides defending his IBF cruiserweight rubric against British challenger Jack Massey.

With the main lawsuit expected to get underway astatine astir 11pm BST, 6pm ET and 3pm PT, an aboriginal conjecture would beryllium that Wardley vs Clarke 2 is underway sometime astir 9:30pm BST. However, overmuch depends connected its nonstop spot connected the measure and the magnitude of the preceding fights.

The undercard itself is scheduled to commence astatine 7pm BST, which is 2pm ET and 11am PT successful the United States.

TV transmission and unrecorded stream: The lawsuit is being shown unrecorded successful the UK connected DAZN pay-per-view, astatine a outgo of £19.99 with a escaped seven-day proceedings included.

Live blog: Follow unrecorded round-by-round sum of each bout connected Saturday evening with Standard Sport’s fight nighttime blog.

Beterbiev-Bivol headlines the show, supported by Wardley-Clarke, Opetaia-Massey and the instrumentality of Chris Eubank Jr, who competes for the archetypal clip successful 13 months arsenic helium battles Kamil Szeremeta of Poland.

Skye Nicolson besides faces a pugnacious mandatory defence of her WBC featherweight rubric against Raven Chapman, portion Ben Whittaker steps up against Liam Cameron and Saudi boxer Mohammed Alakel makes his nonrecreational debut against Colombian Jesus Gonzalez.

Artur Beterbiev vs Dmitry Bivol

Jai Opetaia vs Jack Massey

Fabio Wardley vs Frazer Clarke 2

Chris Eubank Jr vs Kamil Szeremeta

Skye Nicolson vs Raven Chapman

Ben Whittaker vs Liam Cameron

Mohammed Alakel vs Jesus Gonzalez

This combat volition person to genuinely spell immoderate to lucifer what we saw successful March, erstwhile some men near everything wrong the ringing successful a genuinely titanic conflict than galore instantly labelled arsenic the champion British heavyweight rubric bout of each time.

Clarke was the underdog for galore successful that archetypal showdown, showing superb powers of betterment to respond to being floored to travel backmost and adjacent person 1 justice that he’d won it.

Wardley insists helium has nary volition of letting the combat spell the region this time, confidently stating that helium volition larn from his mistakes and showcase a much ruthless streak successful the rematch.

Those are ominous words from the Ipswich heavyweight, who has acquisition of warring successful Riyadh aft beating Adeleye connected the Tyson Fury-Francis Ngannou undercard past twelvemonth and is present portion of Frank Warren’s unchangeable aft signing a multi-fight promotional woody with Queensberry backmost successful August.

Wardley to triumph by knockout.

Clarke tipped the scales astatine 271.3 lbs portion Wardley came successful astatine 241.6 lbs.

Wardley to triumph connected points oregon by decision: 13/5

Wardley to triumph by knockout, method knockout oregon disqualification: 7/4

Clarke to triumph connected points oregon by decision: 7/2

Clarke to triumph by knockout, method knockout oregon disqualification: 13/5

Odds via Betfair (subject to change).