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Spider: Turn pro, Buatsi
- Updated: August 12, 2016
Joshua Buatsi has been urged to turn professional after the Olympics by former opponent Craig ‘Spider’ Richards.
Light-heavyweight Buatsi has been Great Britain’s outstanding boxing representative at Rio 2016, most recently stopping third seed Elshod Rasulov to qualify for the quarter-finals.
Richards lost an amateur bout to Buatsi but, now a 4-0 professional middleweight, has urged his former conqueror to join him in the “very different” paid ranks.
“He’ll be looking to turn professional after the Rio Olympics, I would have thought,” Richards told Sky Sports.
“It’d be good if he and I were to fight again in the paid ranks so I can avenge my points defeat to him, but it’s not one of my primary focuses because he’s still an amateur and in a different weight category.
“The …
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