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THERE should finally be a new British light-heavyweight champion crowned on Saturday night (August 22).
After Joshua Buatsi vacated, the Board paired Craig “Spider” Richards with Shakan Pitters.
That was set to go ahead last December, but terms couldn’t be agreed and when the fight went back out to purse bids, Mick Hennessy outbid Eddie Hearn.
The fight was set for March 28 in Coventry but Richards, currently No. 8 in the WBA rankings, pulled out of the Midlands show against the 6ft 6in Pitters.
stepped in and after a delay of five months, the 26-year-old from Newark meets Pitters this weekend at a production studio in Redditch.
