{"id":5606,"date":"2024-10-14T17:26:14","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T17:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/frazer-clarke-has-surgery-on-broken-jaw-after-loss-to-fabio-wardley\/"},"modified":"2024-10-14T17:26:14","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T17:26:14","slug":"frazer-clarke-has-surgery-on-broken-jaw-after-loss-to-fabio-wardley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/frazer-clarke-has-surgery-on-broken-jaw-after-loss-to-fabio-wardley\/","title":{"rendered":"Frazer Clarke has surgery on broken jaw after loss to Fabio Wardley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Heavyweight Frazer Clarke has had surgery on his jaw and cheekbone following his first-round stoppage loss to Fabio Wardley in Saudi Arabia on <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cvgdl3k14xmo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Saturday<\/b><\/a><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 33-year-old was taken to hospital after suffering a fracture high on his jaw in their British title fight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Boxxer promoter Ben Shalom said Clarke underwent &#8220;minor&#8221; surgery in Riyadh on Sunday. He landed back in the United Kingdom on Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He&#8217;s feeling more motivated than ever to come back bigger and better in the new year,&#8221; Shalom told Sky Sports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Clarke, a 2020 Olympic bronze medallist, lost for the first time as a pro as Wardley, 29, retained his British title at the Kingdom Arena. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a rematch of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/68693947\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">March&#8217;s fight of the year contender<\/a> which ended in a draw, Wardley hurt Clarke with a strong right hand in the first round after a flurry of punches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Clarke rose to his feet but with his jaw visibly out of place, the referee stopped the contest.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cx24w33xyy4o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heavyweight Frazer Clarke has had surgery on his jaw and cheekbone following his first-round stoppage loss to Fabio Wardley in Saudi Arabia on Saturday. The 33-year-old was taken to hospital after suffering a fracture high on his jaw in their British title fight. Boxxer promoter Ben Shalom said Clarke underwent &#8220;minor&#8221; surgery in Riyadh on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boxing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5608,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5606\/revisions\/5608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}