“He can’t step up to my level, he’s a British level fighter. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, I don’t think he’ll ever win a world title.”
WBO Middleweight King Billy Joe Saunders says Chris Eubank Jr will never be on his level.
Billy Joe Saunders
Tyson Fury picks Saunders to beat Golovkin
By Dan Ambrose: Heavyweight champion Tyson Fury believes WBO middleweight champion Billy Joe Saunders (23-0, 12 KOs) will be IBF/IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (34-0, 31 KOs) when/if they face each other in 2016 in a unification match.
Fury believes that if he was able to defeat Wladimir Klitschko in a fight where everyone doubted him, then Saunders will be able to do the same thing by beating Golovkin. Fury says he’s betting that the 26-year-old Saunders will get past Golovkin if this fight goes down.
Loeffler: Saunders an option for GGG if no Canelo or Khan fight
By Jeff Aranow: Tom Loeffler of K2 Promotions says WBO middleweight champion Billy Joe Saunders is an option for his fighter IBF/IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin if he can’t get the winner of the May 7 fight between WBC middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and Amir Khan.
That’s the first priority for Golovkin because he wants the fight against the winner of the Canelo vs. Khan fight so that he has a chance to win the WBC 160lb title inside the ring rather than picking it up from the World Boxing Council stripping Canelo or Khan of the WBC belt for them having failed to face Golovkin.
“We would still be very interested in a fight there with Saunders,” Loeffler said to skysports.com. “If [Canelo or Khan] doesn’t happen, for whatever reason, then Saunders would be at the top of our list to unify the middleweight division. Gennady is the type of fighter that doesn’t care where he fights.”
Saunders wants Golovkin fight at Wembley Stadium
By Scott Gilfoid: WBO middleweight champion Billy Joe Saunders (23-0, 12 KOs) is eying a big summer showdown with IBF/IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (34-0, 31 KOs) at Wembley Stadium in London, UK. For that fight to have a realistic chance of taking place, Saunders will need to successfully defend his WBO title next month against #11 WBO challenger Max Bursak (32-4-1, 5, 15 KOs) on BoxNation on April 30 at the Copper Box Arena in London, UK.
That shouldn’t be a problem for Saunders, but you never know. Saunders can’t punch and he’s really little more than a six-round fighter. We’ve seen Saunders’ lack of stamina at play recently in his fights against Chris Eubank Jr. and Andy Lee.
It doesn’t look like the 26-year-old Saunders is improving in the stamina department unfortunately, and you have to figure that this is going to be a career-long thing for him.
Why we won’t see Golovkin-Saunders
By Gav Duthie: In a brief conversation involving Steve ‘Big Daddy’ Bunce and Frank Warren before the Flanagan-Matthews title fight the latter admitted that Billy Joe Saunders wanted to fight Gennady Golovkin next.
Last week it was announced that that Saunders will make a voluntary defence against Max Bursak for his newly acquired WBO middleweight title. Bursak is a solid fighter with good experience but is certainly not a name that will excite the fans.
Golovkin vs. Saunders possible for the summer
By Dan Ambrose: WBO middleweight champion Billy Joe Saunders (23-0, 12 KOs) could be facing IBF/IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady “Triple G” Golovkin (34-0, 31 KOs) in a fight in the summer in the UK if both fighters win their next fights. Saunders’ promoter Frank Warren is saying that a fight between Saunders and Golovkin is possible if Saunders wins his next fight against #11 WBO challenger Max Bursak (32-4-1, 15 KOs) on April 30 at the Copper Box Arena in London, UK.
Golovkin has a fight he needs to win first as well against Dominic Wade (18-0, 12 KOs) on April 23 at the Forum in Inglewood, California. Golovkin is expected to win that fight without any troubles at all.
Saunders fires back at critics over Bursak fight
By Scott Gilfoid: Well, it seems WBO middleweight champion Billy Joe Saunders (23-0, 12 KOs) is a little thin-skinned about the choice of his next opponent Max Bursak (32-4-1, 15 KOs) for his fight on April 30th on BoxNation from the Copper Box Arena in London, UK.
Instead of Saunders agreeing with his loyal fans that his opponent is less than a good one, Saunders struck back at his critics on social media today.
Here’s what Saunders had to say about the fans who are taking shots at him about the Bursak fight:
Billy Joe Saunders takes soft first defence
By Adam Beechers: WBO Middleweight Champion Billy Joe Saunders 23(12)-0 held a press conference at The O2 to confirm he would be defending against Ukraine’s ‘Mad’ Max Bursak 32(16)-4-1 on April 30th. The fight will be taking place at Hackney’s Copper Box Arena with its 7000 seated venue.
Following Saunders majority decision win over Ireland’s Andy Lee to capture the belt his promoter Frank Warren had been talking about taking on a few mouth watering middleweights as his first defense.
A rematch with long term domestic rival Chris Eubank JNR, Golovkin mandatory but injured Tureano Johnson and of course the current unified WBA Super, IBF, IBO and interim WBC middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin.
Billy Joe Saunders vs. Max Bursak on April 30 in London, UK
By Scott Gilfoid: WBO middleweight champion Billy Joe Saunders (23-0, 12 KOs) will be making a soft first defense of his WBO 160lb title next month against #11 WBO fringe contender Max Bursak (32-4-1, 15 KOs) on April 30 at the Copper Box Arena in London, UK. Bursak is about as soft as you can get and still have it as a World Boxing Organization sanctioned fight.
Bursak, 31, has lost three out of his last six fights in the last two years. With that many defeats in such a short period of time, it’s a wonderment that the WBO even has him ranked in their top 15. They obviously must see something in Bursak that I can’t quite understand. I wouldn’t have Bursak in my top 15 or top 50. This is a gawd awful title defense for Saunders. I figured he would go soft in his voluntary defenses of his WBO strap, but I didn’t think he would go this soft. This isn’t even sporting. Bursak has been floundering as of late with his sinking career, and I just don’t see the point in a mismatch like this. Saunders might as well drag Yoann Bloyer (17-27-2) back into the ring for a rematch because the Bursak fight is pretty much the same in terms of talent.
I might have him at bottom 100, but then again I see things from a logical standpoint. I mean, when you lose three out of your last six fights like Bursak, you don’t belong in the top 15. I’m just saying.
GGG’s priorities: Wade, Canelo-Khan winner & Saunders, says Loeffler
By Dan Ambrose: It looks like 51-year-old Bernard Hopkins has been designated as a very low possibility for a potential future opponent for IBF/IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (34-0, 31 KOs) in 2016. According to Golovkin’s promoter Tom Loeffler, his main focus is his April 23 fight against his IBF mandatory challenger Dominic Wade (18-0, 12 KOs), and then the winner of the May 7 fight between WBC middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and Amir Khan, and then WBO 160lb champion Billy Joe Saunders.
If Golovkin can get past Wade, which would seem very likely, then he’ll look to fight the Canelo-Khan winner. Loeffler says the winner of that fight will be stripped of their WBC title by the World Boxing Council if they refuse to face GGG.