by Owen Hammond: The waiting is almost over for the highly anticipated Bad Blood event tonight at London’s ExCel arena. I have recently previewed the chief support fight, Saunders vs Eubank Jr, and I now turn my attention towards the main event which sees Tyson Fury (22-0-0, 16 KOs) challenge Dereck Chisora (20-4-0, 13 KOs) for Del Boy’s EBU Heavyweight title. The fight is also for the vacant British Heavyweight belt, but perhaps more importantly doubles up as an eliminator for the WBO Heavyweight title currently heald by the machine that is Wladimir Klitschko.
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Saunders vs Eubank Jr: The Proven vs The Unproven
by Owen Hammond: In just short of a week’s time, the highly anticipated fight between Billy Joe Saunders (20-0-0, 11 KOs) and Chris Eubank Jr (18-0-0, 13 KOs) will take place as chief support to the British and European Heavyweight clash between Dereck Chisora and Tyson Fury at London’s ExCel arena. Though this fight is not the main event, it is arguably worthy of headlining a card itself and certainly has the potential to outshine the rest of the fights taking place that night.
In what is a very intriguing match-up, and a somewhat rarity in that we are seeing two unbeaten records on the line so early in each fighters career, we will see two of Britain’s most talented Middleweights go head to head for the British, Commonwealth and European championships. In one corner we have Billy Joe Saunders, the holder of all three of the aforementioned belts.