Billy Joe Saunders: record, next fight and profile →
Sources with knowledge of the details have advised BoxingScene.com that promoter Frank Warren is struggling to get Chris Eubank Jr. (18-0, 13KOs) to go face to face with Billy Joe Saunders (20-0, 11KOs) at a press conference. They are set to meet for the EBU/British/Commonwealth middleweight titles on November 29th from the ExCel Arena in London. The fight is also going to be a WBO final world title eliminator.
Jimmy Tibbs says that his charge Billy Joe Saunders training at a foreign camp for the big showdown with rival Chris Eubank Jnr brings back memories of Nigel Benn’s epic win over Mauro Galvano. The legendary East End trainer took British boxing great Benn to a Tenerife training camp for his WBC World Super-Middleweight title challenge against Italian Galvano in 1992, the results showed with Benn pulling off a memorable victory in Rome, stopping Galvano in four rounds. Tibbs has taken British, Commonwealth and European Middleweight Champion Saunders to the MGM Gym in Marbella and is getting the same good vibes from the camp that he did over twenty years ago with Benn.
BoxingScene can confirm that the WBO have ratified Billy Joe Saunders, 20-0 (11), versus Chris Eubank Junior, 18-0 (13), as a final eliminator for the winner of Matt Kobolov and Andy Lee, who are set to contest the vacant middleweight WBO title on December 13. Saunders is putting his British and EBU 160lb titles on the line at London's Excel Arena on November 29th, and the winner will be lined up for a world title shot in 2015.
At the Echo Arena in Liverpool, Chris Eubank Jr warmed up for next month's domestic showdown with Billy Joe Saunders by claiming a quickfire victory over unheralded German Omar Siala. Despite the biggest test of his fledgling professional career just five weeks away, the unbeaten Eubank Jr opted to take a tune-up and it paid dividends as he claimed his 18th straight victory in the paid ranks.
Hatfield's Billy Joe Saunders has once again stoked the flames of conflict ahead of his November 29th European middleweight title clash with Chris Eubank Junior by suggesting that the loser pays £100,000 to charity during an appearance on British radio station TalkSport earlier today, and Eubank accepted the offer. They are fighting on the undercard of Tyson Fury's heavyweight title eliminator rematch with Dereck Chisora, the Frank Warren-promoted bill is called "Bad Blood" and is already living up to its moniker.
LONDON - Avoided middleweight Nick Blackwell will be able to watch the upcoming British, Commonwealth and European title fight between Billy Joe Saunders and Chris Eubank safe in the knowledge that he will be next in line to face the winner. Saunders and Eubank Jr clash on November 29 at the ExCeL Arena and Blackwell, the mandatory challenger for the British title, has been guaranteed a shot at the pretigious Lonsdale belt in the very near future. “In addition to step-aside money, the British Boxing Board of Control have guaranteed that I'll fight the winner of Saunders-Eubank Jr within 90 days,” he said. “If the winner doesn't fight me, they will be forced to vacate the belt and I will be in pole position to fight for the vacant title.
Chris Eubank Jr. appeared at a press conference in London earlier Thursday to discuss his October 25 fight versus Jez Wilson, as well as his pending November 29 grudge match meeting with Billy Joe Saunders. Eubank Jr. (17-0, 12KOs) will fight Wilson (11-2-1, 7KOs) over eight rounds at Liverpool’s Echo Arena, with an injury-free win paving the way for a showdown with Saunders for the EBU middleweight title at London's ExCel Arena.
If there is one fight I wanted to promote more than a return between Arsene Wenger and Jose Mourinho it's the potentially sizzling scrap between two of the best youngsters in the business – Billy Joe Saunders and Chris Eubank jnr, both unbeaten and threatening to knock bits off each other. They'll meet for Billy Joe's European and Commonwealth middleweight titles but it's been a real pain in the backside getting this one it together, mainly because dealing with Chris Snr, who acts as his eldest son's manager, mentor and minder, has been an absolute nightmare. But we've finally got it signed for the ExCel in London on 29 November when heavyweights Dereck Chisora and Tyson will also be spilling a bit of bad blood.
EBU middleweight champion Billy Joe Saunders (20-0, 11KOs) has promised to put a real hurt on prospect Chris Eubank Jr. (17-0, 12KOs). They are going to fight on November 29th at the ExCel Arena in London. Saunders has gone as far as to promise retirement if Eubank is able to win that night. He has no respect for the second generation fighter. Saunders says Eubank is fraud who is living off the name of his famous father, Chris Eubank Sr.
I was delighted this week to secure the massive domestic showdown between Billy Joe Saunders and Chris Eubank Jr for my bumper 'Bad Blood' card at the ExCel, London on 29th November. It goes without saying that this was possibly the hardest negotiation process for any fight I have staged in my 30+ year career in boxing! However this was a fight that the fans wanted and we went above and beyond to deliver it. I'm sure everyone is now is looking forward to it taking place on without doubt one of the strongest top to bottom cards to take place in the UK in many years that will air live and exclusive on the Channel of Champions BoxNation (Sky 437/HD 490, Virgin 546 and Talk Talk 525).