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BETTER LATE THAN NEVER

PITTERS-RICHARDS

AROUND a year after the fight was first mooted, Shakan Pitters and Craig “Spider” Richards finally meet this weekend.

Channel 5 televise from Redditch as Birmingham’s Pitters makes the first defence of the British light-heavyweight championship he won by unanimously outpointing Chad Sugden in August.

Challenger Richards risks his No. 8 ranking with the WBA.

Pitters-Richards was originally set to go ahead at the York Hall on December 19 last year. Terms couldn’t

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