Eastside Gyms Shakan Pitters will be on the undercard of the Boxxer Promotions show which is being held at the Genting Arena Birmingham on May 6th. Headlining the show you have new to the Boxxer Promotion Joshua Buatsi who will be taking on Pawel Stepien in a 12-round contest. Pitters who has shared the ring with Buatsi several times in sparing will be looking to make a statement live on Sky Sports when he takes on Portsmouth’s Joel Mcintyre. The fight distance has not been confirmed yet but should be six three-minute rounds but hopefully eight or more rounds.
The former British Light-Heavyweight champion is coming off the back of a defeat where he tried to win his British title back losing on points to the unbeaten Dan Azeez in September of 2022. Pitters (33) has won seventeen out of nineteen contest with his two defeats coming in 12-round fights for the British Light-Heavyweight title. The six-foot-six former West Bromwich Albion football club apprentice is a former English Light-Heavyweight champ and the Current WBC International champ.
His opponent Joel Mcintyre (35) has had twenty six fights and won twenty of them, he has fought for the southern area Light-Heavyweight title losing on points to Miles Shinkwin. Mcintyre also won the English Light-Heavyweight title when he beat Miles Shinkwin on points in December of 2016. He lost the title in September of 2017 being stopped by Liam Conroy, Mcintyre then tried to win the English title back in December of 2012 when he met Miles Shinkwin for the third time losing on points. His last fight was against ‘The Digger’ Rickey Summers for the English Light-Heavyweight title with Summers beating him on points in March of this year. Dexter’s Thoughts
It will be great to see Shakan getting into a ring on such a big stage again in his hometown of Birmingham. I have followed Shak’s career since the start when he made his debut in March of 2017 as a cruiserweight against Remigijus Ziausys winning on point. Just like his stable mate Kaisee Benjamin, I was the first person to interview him before he turned pro. He has done some in his career winning the Boxxer Tournament, claiming the English and then the British title and a WBC International title at Light-Heavyweight, and I think there is more to come. If Shakan wins this contest it will boost him back in the ranks and I could well see another crack at the British or a European title and who knows where he could go after that. I am really looking forward to seeing him back in the ring.'