Jack Catterall – Harlem Eubank<\/a> undercard in Manchester, super-welterweight Wilkinson stopped the hometown favourite in the sixth round, causing a huge upset.<\/p>\n“It was a very special moment,” he told BBC Sport Scotland.<\/p>\n
Wilkinson, who’s pro record now stands at 12 victories and two defeats, has recovered well after losing to Aberdeen’s Dean Sutherland at the end of last year, winning both fights since then.<\/p>\n
“This was a bit of a redemption fight for me,” he said. “It was a chance for me to get on a bigger platform and do what I was meant to do at the Beach Ballroom [against Sutherland].<\/p>\n
“I still work 9 to 5. I have got to get in the gym in the morning and then train straight after. I do that at least four days a week and then on the Friday I train once and Saturday I train once.<\/p>\n
“People that saw me perform at the weekend, working full-time. Imagine what I can do when I am fully focused and actually training full-time.”<\/p>\n
Wilkinson finished Crolla with a flurry of blows, having floored his opponent in the fifth round.<\/p>\n
“If something comes of it it is going to be a remarkable win,” he added. “If nothing comes off the back of it, it has just been another notch on the record.<\/p>\n
“For me it is big personally, just because I have dreamed of being on a Matchroom show since I was a kid and it was everything I thought it would have been.<\/p>\n
“Hopefully, he [promoter Eddie Hearn] looked at my performance and thought ‘that kid has actually got a bit of something I would like to get behind’.<\/p>\n
“But if it doesn’t I am not going to sit here and sulk. I am going to move on with my career, that is the most important bit. I will just keep going like I have always done. No matter what, I just keep going.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fraser Wilkinson is hoping a statement win over William Crolla on Saturday can provide a pathway to a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-249096","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114819898371621004","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}