A FORMER opponent of Anthony Joshua suffered a horror injury as his ear was left hanging off his head in a bare-knuckle boxing fight. Dorian Darch was AJ’s fourth pro rival in boxing, with the two men colliding in February 2014. Joshua put the Welshman to the sword at the Cardiff International Arena with an incredible second round KO.
Darch has since moved into the explosive world of bare-knuckle fighting instead. But the 40-year-old heavyweight suffered a huge problem on Saturding during his Extreme Bare Knuckle Fighting Series clash with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Skurtu. The two men battered the brakes off each other on the main card of the BYB 30 event.
READ MORE IN BOXING However, the fight had to be called off when Darch received a series of blows to his head. One of Skurtu’s punches was so hard it split Darch’s left ear in half, leaving it hanging off the Welshman’s head. The crowd booed as the referee waved off the fight, with a medical team needed to stop the bleeding.
A commentator said: “This is very unfortunate. It’s an absolute travesty for Darch but his left ear is cut down the middle like a butcher’s knife has been taken to it.” Most read in Boxing FOOTBALL FREE BETS AND SIGN UP DEALS The veteran fighter later expressed his disappointment on social media before thanking doctors for saving his ear.
Darch said: “Tough pill to swallow. The old me would have been pouting but I gave it my all, trained the hardest I ever have and actually tried to box. �.