Comments Thread For: Saunders Injured (Again), Ring Return Pushed To November 26

[BoxingFan85]

Typical Frank Warren move really.

This card was hardly selling as he had some big pull outs like Eubank. The card gets pushed back so Warren can try to make some better fights to shift some tickets. Also, it free's up Saunders for the time being to see what happens between Jacobs and GGG, if they do fight, they will just get Saunders another opponent, no harm done really.

Makes me wonder.. How can Saunders demand more from any purse (Eubank/GGG) if the guy can't even headline the event & sell decent tickets..

[lopetego]

disgraceful. i bet they're delaying the fight on purpose.

after Blly Hoe gets stripped, let's hope no more *****s win belts anymore

these chumps just want to party and to hold titles hostage without ever defending them

[deathofaclown]

Makes me wonder.. How can Saunders demand more from any purse (Eubank/GGG) if the guy can't even headline the event & sell decent tickets..

Well that's the thing. He isn't a draw here at all. His fight with Andy Lee only barely half the arena and that was a title fight between two travellers and probably the 2 best British MW's at the time.

Half of the problem is that he fights on BoxNation and is with Warren. The fact is that it's extremely difficult to get a fanbase these days unless you're with Hearn and his Sky hype machine. There's not many fighters with good exposure in the UK that aren't with Hearn. Frampton does because he has the big Northern Ireland following. Fury had good exposure because he's Fury. Apart from that, it's all Hearn fighters.

I think Saunders is a good fighter but can't really be calling the shots financially. He brings nothing to the table except a belt. If he fought GGG in the UK now, it would be a pro Golovkin crowd.

[BoxingFan85]

Well that's the thing. He isn't a draw here at all. His fight with Andy Lee only barely half the arena and that was a title fight between two travellers and probably the 2 best British MW's at the time.

Half of the problem is that he fights on BoxNation and is with Warren. The fact is that it's extremely difficult to get a fanbase these days unless you're with Hearn and his Sky hype machine. There's not many fighters with good exposure in the UK that aren't with Hearn. Frampton does because he has the big Northern Ireland following. Fury had good exposure because he's Fury. Apart from that, it's all Hearn fighters.

I think Saunders is a good fighter but can't really be calling the shots financially. He brings nothing to the table except a belt. If he fought GGG in the UK now, it would be a pro Golovkin crowd.

That's funny man.. BJS is a good boxer but with a pretty lame promotional company & BoxNation isn't Sky.. I mean Sky hupe the **** out of even a mediocre British title fight.. Hearn definitely has his company in a good name with Sky & they eat everything he sells.. To be fair, Hearn usually stacks up good undercards too something Warren fails to do..

[deanrw]

You will not see Saunders return till at least the 2nd half of 2017. Reports on twitter are saying he has suffered a sprained vagina.

[deathofaclown]

That's funny man.. BJS is a good boxer but with a pretty lame promotional company & BoxNation isn't Sky.. I mean Sky hupe the **** out of even a mediocre British title fight.. Hearn definitely has his company in a good name with Sky & they eat everything he sells.. To be fair, Hearn usually stacks up good undercards too something Warren fails to do..

The thing with Warren is it's a lottery whether his cards even take place or not sometimes.

[Eastcoast]

Makes me wonder.. How can Saunders demand more from any purse (Eubank/GGG) if the guy can't even headline the event & sell decent tickets..

That belt is all the leverage he needs right now. He can basically name his price.

[Eastcoast]

Well that's the thing. He isn't a draw here at all. His fight with Andy Lee only barely half the arena and that was a title fight between two travellers and probably the 2 best British MW's at the time.

Half of the problem is that he fights on BoxNation and is with Warren. The fact is that it's extremely difficult to get a fanbase these days unless you're with Hearn and his Sky hype machine. There's not many fighters with good exposure in the UK that aren't with Hearn. Frampton does because he has the big Northern Ireland following. Fury had good exposure because he's Fury. Apart from that, it's all Hearn fighters.

I think Saunders is a good fighter but can't really be calling the shots financially. He brings nothing to the table except a belt. If he fought GGG in the UK now, it would be a pro Golovkin crowd.

How big would Saunders be under the Matchroom banner?

[BoxingFan85]

That belt is all the leverage he needs right now. He can basically name his price.

Yeah.. But he is swatting flies from the time he won his title, its time to call his bluff because he cannot draw a living soul to his fights & to top it he is feather fisted, Wonder how bad Andy Lee's chin is

[deathofaclown]

How big would Saunders be under the Matchroom banner?

It''s difficult to say. One the one hand he would get so much more exposure like all Eddie''s fighters do because almost everyone watches Sky for their sports news. So you get your name across to the "casuals" easily.

On the other hand, people don't warm to gypsies in general really and Saunders isn't exactly a character that plays the game to be liked.

He would get a hell of a lot more exposure though, no doubt.