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THE prize when defends his Commonwealth light-heavyweight title against at the BT Sport studios in Stratford this Friday (July 31) is a big payday for fighting Anthony Yarde. Yarde was set to challenge Arthur on the Daniel Dubois-Joe Joyce bill, before COVID-19 changed everything. The delay hands a shot to Spelman, an honest 28-year-old from Scunthorpe last seen losing his English belt to Shakan Pitters in a fight we placed at No. 8 in our British Fight of the Year list for 2019. Pitters meets Chad Sugden for the vacant British crown next month and Spelman and Pitters have recently

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