Hughie Fury and Shakan Pitters
Hughie Fury and Shakan Pitters head to London on Friday, April 4th, intent on making world title rivalry statements by scoring large wins atop the GBM: ‘As soon as Upon A Time In London’ card at York Corridor, dwell worldwide on DAZN.
On Monday, Hughie Fury – cousin of retired world champion Tyson Fury – declared each prime heavyweight a goal as he signed a multi-fight take care of GBM. His co-headline bout would be the first of a 2025 marketing campaign which goals to place him into rivalry towards among the heavyweight division’s greatest names.
In the primary occasion, the drama underpinning the match between EBU light-heavyweight champion Daniel ‘Blenda’ Dos Santos and British challenger Shakan Pitters is lastly resolved as Dos Santos has spectacularly overturned the inaccurate medical report which noticed his February seventh bout with Pitters cancelled simply 24 hours out.
Pitters now lastly has the prospect to dethrone the French particular forces veteran and safe a title seen as a vital waypoint on the journey to world-level title rivalry.
April’s card will even function undefeated super-lightweights Ben Crocker and Tiernan Bradley, with Crocker defending his IBF European Tremendous-Light-weight Championship, and Emma Dolan defending her British and Commonwealth Tremendous-Flyweight Championship towards Lauren Parker.
GBM CEO Izzy Asif mentioned, “Each time we go to London we go large, and it doesn’t get a lot greater than one of many heavyweight division’s greatest prospects. This yr goes to be an enormous yr for Hughie Fury, you’re going to see him in large fights which energy him in a short time into the world title contender image.
“Shakan Pitters is on the best way to the world stage as nicely. This European championship bout is an important stage in that journey. There’s been numerous drama behind this one, together with the last-minute cancellation earlier this month. Shakan made brief work of his substitute opponent on February seventh however Dos Santos is a unique degree and that is going to be a really powerful take a look at which is able to present the extent Shakan is at.
“On prime of that we’ve bought two of the most effective undefeated boxers within the British Isles, I’m very excited for the IBF European championship bout between Ben Crocker and Tiernan Bradley – somebody’s 0 goes to go. Full credit score to them for taking a struggle like this at this stage of their careers.
“And the British and Commonwealth bout between Emma Dolan and Lauren Parker can be going to supply fireworks. It’s an enormous card for an iconic venue and our second present of the yr. We’re pulling out all of the stops this yr as we got down to ship the UK’s most crowd-pleasing occasions alongside our unique broadcast companion DAZN.”
