By Elliot Foster
Billy Joe Saunders has said that he wants to win all the belts and is as a result willing to take on Gennady Golovkin.
The WBO middleweight world champion will return to the ring on October 29, as part of the undercard to Tyson Fury’s world heavyweight title rematch against Wladimir Klitschko, at the Manchester Arena.
But Saunders (23-0, 12 KOs), 27, says that he will be available to fight WBA Super, IBF, WBC and IBO titlist ‘GGG’, providing he comes through his first title defence, exclusively live on BoxNation, next month.
He released a video on social media on Sunday, reacting to the Kazakh’s five-round TKO stoppage of IBF welterweight king Kell Brook (36-1, 25 KOs) at the O2 Arena on Saturday which was live on Sky Sports Box Office.
“Let’s get one thing right,” Saunders said in a post published to Twitter, “Kell Brook is a welterweight, not a middleweight.”
Brook stepped up two weight divisions, jumping at the chance to become a great by facing one of the most feared fighters in world boxing (36-0, 33 KOs) after the proposed fight with Chris Eubank Jr. didn’t materialise.
After he was retired by his trainer Dominic Ingle in the fifth round of the contest, it was confirmed via x-rays in the aftermath of the fight that ‘The Special One’ had suffered a broken right eye socket and is scheduled to have surgery to repair the damage on Monday at a hospital in his home city of Sheffield.
“I am a fully-fledged middleweight, there are no welterweights here,” Saunders continued, “[I will fight] Golovkin no problems at all.
“I’ve been on to my management this morning and I’d imagine you’ll be around for a few days. I definitely want you on your next available date.
“The date you come back to me with will be a date that I will accept because I’ll give the fans what they want to see.
“I saw faults and flaws in you [on Saturday] that I know I can pick out.
“You’re a genuinely good man and I have the biggest respect [for you], but let’s see who the best is for all of the belts.”
