Saunders: Eubank Jr. is a Bum-Job, He'll NEVER Be World Champ!

By Carlos Boogs

WBO middleweight champion Billy Joe Saunders (23-0, 12KOs) is very confident that his domestic rival, Chris Eubank Jr. (23-1, 18KOs), will never become a world champion.

Saunders, who defends his world title for the first time on October 22 against Artur Akavov, won a close twelve round split decision over Eubank Jr. in November of 2014.

Since that time, Eubank Jr. has become notorious for withdrawing from scheduled fights. Last year, he was in line to face WBA 'regular' champion Daniel Jacobs and walked away from that. He allowed several deadlines to expire for a planned fight against Gennady Golovkin, and most recently he withdrew from a British title fight with Tommy Langford.

"Listen, he's just a bum-job and he'll always lose his bottle. He said he wanted the British title outright, lost his bottle to do it. I've always said it, he will never be world champion - ever, 100%. Unless they find a complete dead body for him, he will never be world champion," Saunders told BoxingScene.com's Declan Taylor.

Saunders was angered by the statements Eubank Jr. made against Kell Brook's trainer Dominic Ingle. Brook, who stepped in to replace Eubank, was stopped by Golovkin in five rounds last month in London. The fight ended when Brook's trainer threw in the towel. Eubank ran to social media and dared Golovkin to fight him, and warned the middleweight champion that his corner had "no towels."

"The remarks he made against Brook's trainers, the Ingles, was absolutely disgusting. It was disgusting and I'm not using that because I don't like him. I wouldn't do that, because a man just passed away and it's very, very sad incident. But to say stuff like that, it's just heartless," Saunders.

Would he ever give Eubank Jr. a rematch in the future? No chance.

"I wont give him no chance. He's a mess and I was supposed to fight him twice. I signed twice to fight him and he pulled out both times. Last time the offer was 900,000 and he said no, so tell me how he deserves to fight somebody [after pulling out on an offer like that]," Saunders said.