Newly-crowned British champion Jamie TKV admits he’s ecstatic after his victory over Frazer Clarke.
TKV bettered Clarke over 12 gruelling rounds at the Vaillant Live in Derby on Saturday.
After a tough few months following his stoppage loss to David Adeleye, TKV finally turned his fortunes around.
In their clash last year TKV was ahead on the cards against Adeleye but a controversial stoppage meant it wasn’t meant to be and Adeleye opted to fight Fillip Hrgovic in August rather than a rematch.
The British heavyweight champion spoke in a post fight press conference where he revealed the emotions after a career-best victory.
“It feels amazing. There’s no words that could describe this feeling.
“It’s an amazing feeling. I’ve worked hard to get here and now we’re here.
“I’m happy, over the moon.”
TKV touched on the last few months and how the key to victory wasn’t necessarily the physical preparation but rather how he prepared mentally for the test of Clarke.
“You got to be strong up there.
“Despite the training that we do. I do a lot of work up here. I knew that this fight was going to be hard and once it did start to get hard, went back to my mentality.
“I went back to telling myself that I can get through this. When I did that, I got through the fight. So, thank God, I did the training up there and here.”
On paper, Clarke was TKV’s toughest test to date, being an Olympic bronze medalist who was unfortunate to not get a result in his first fight with now-WBO world champion, Fabio Wardley back in March of last year.
Despite only just leaving the ring, TKV immediately gave his thoughts on a possible rematch with ‘Big Fraze’.
“Yeah, of course.
“I mean we can always have a rematch.
“It depends if the fans and promoter want it, let’s see.”
Another potential opponent for TKV could be Dave Allen.
The pair were negotiating a fight for the British title before Clarke became mandatory.
Allen has opened the door to a meeting in Sheffield next year when speaking to Pro Boxing Fans.
“I would like the fight.
“I would love to box for the British title of course.”
