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Team GB’s Frazer Clarke gets boxing medal shot as furious opponent stages sit-down protest

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  • Mourad Aliev disqualified for butt in super-heavy clash
  • ‘There were a couple of heads going in,’ says Briton

There were controversial, bloody, but ultimately glorious scenes for British boxing at the Kokugikan Arena as Frazer Clarke secured a spot in the Olympic super-heavyweight semi-final by way of a disqualification, after being cut on both eyes during his bout with Mourad Aliev of France.

As the fight was stopped at the end of the second round Aliev shoved a cameramen’s lens, stomped around the ring and then, in an extraordinary turn, ended up sitting against the ropes for more an hour in protest at his disqualification.

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