Billy Joe Saunders: record, next fight and profile →
Demetrius Andrade isn’t prepared to discuss a contingency plan in the event he can’t land a coveted dream fight with Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez or Gennadiy Golovkin. In fact, there’s only other name beyond the big two that would even pique the interest of the unbeaten middleweight titlist.
Another year, another idle challenge issued by Billy Joe Saunders. The unbeaten two-division beltholder has renewed his quest for a showdown with former unified middleweight titlist Gennadiy Golovkin, this time traveling to his longtime divisional rival’s home country to plead his case.
WBA super middleweight champion Callum Smith has given confirmation to a recent statement by promoter Frank Warren. Warren revealed that he issued an offer to Smith, for a pay-per-view unification with newly crowned WBO champion Billy Joe Saunders. Smith is promoted by Warren's main promotional rival in the UK, Eddie Hearn.
Callum Smith has his eyes firmly on a super-fight with Saul Alvarez – but it looks like another option could be on the horizon. The 29-year-old took out Hassan N’Dam inside three rounds at Madison Square Garden in New York last weekend to keep his WBA Super, WBC Diamond and Ring Magazine super-middleweight titles.
BILLY JOE SAUNDERS confirmed his position as the King of Herts on Saturday night with a typically fleet-footed display which, at times, had his opponent Shefat Isufi punching shadows. The most important thing to come out of the successful night at the Lamex Stadium in Stevenage was Bill becoming a two-weight world champion and congratulations to him on joining an elite band of fighters.
Billy Joe Saunders outclassed Shefat Isufi to become a two-weight world champion and promised to target the "big fights" and "big names". The Briton scored a unanimous decision (120-108, 117-111, 118-110) in Stevenage to claim the vacant WBO super-middleweight title.
Lamex Stadium, Stevenage - For the vacant WBO super middleweight title, Billy Joe Saunders (28-0, 13 KOs) became a two-division world champion as he easily outboxed Shefat Isufi (27-4-2, 20 KOs). The scores were 120-108, 117-111 and 118-110.
Billy Joe Saunders understands the rationale behind what’s being said and written about Shefat Isufi. The former WBO middleweight champion is just trying his best to ignore it. If nothing else, Isufi is rated ahead of Saunders in the WBO’s 168-pound rankings entering their fight Saturday night for its unclaimed super middleweight championship. The unproven Serbian is ranked No. 1 by the WBO, one spot ahead of England’s Saunders.
Shefat Isufi is well aware that few if any give him any chance at all of beating Billy Joe Saunders this weekend. His challenge of the unbeaten Brit is about so much more than upsetting the odds, though. The streaking super middleweight contender heads into Saturday’s contest at Lanex Stadium in Stevenage, England—mere miles from Saunders’ Hatfield hometown—looking to become the first ever Albania-born boxer to win a major title, with the vacant WBO 168-pound at stake.
For the first time in 17 months, Billy Joe Saunders can officially look forward to a title fight. The brash Brit seeks to become a two-division titlist, as he and Shefat Isufi both made weight ahead of their vacant super middleweight title fight Saturday evening at Lamex Arena in Stevenage, England.