
“It’s the strangest thing that’s ever happened to me in boxing,” Frazer Clarke recalls. Here he is, sitting in a studio in London, yet mentally the heavyweight is back in a ring in Tokyo, in the summer of 2021.
“I lost the fight, the referee stopped it, my Olympic gold-medal dream was over, and I realised when they raised his hand: ‘This is the last time I’m going to wear this vest and represent this country.’ I had a moment.”