Comments Thread For: Billy Joe Saunders: I'll Do My Two Mandatories, Then a Big Fight

[UNBIASED BOXING]

Saunders and his team are ****ing inept about this whole situation.


With that said, I hope he fights Khurt. Dude has heart and a will that boxerd nowdays should lack. Plus, if Khurt beats Saunders I have faith he would put his belt on the line against GGG.


But anyways--- we have GGG vs Jacobs to look forward to in March (or maybe we should wait �� to see). If that happens, then Saunders can just go **** off.

[Dr Rumack]

Billy Joe is trash. Totally irrelevant.

[285Kid]

Khurtsidze will be a handful of BJS

[churchmouse]

Andy Lee should be ashamed of himself for losing to Saunders.

[Synbad]

Hope one of his mandatories beats him so the hostage situation with this belt is over!

[sicko]

Won't make past Avtandil Khurtsidze who based on WBO rankings is his Mandatory but will he fight him or does he try to fight Tommy Langford who is rated #2 behind Khurtsidze he will literally have to RUN to the Cards and depend on a Controversial Decision because I think Avtandil Khurtsidze relentless pressure breaks him and he might get stopped late

[BOXING-SCRIBE]

He'll be ready for a big fight by 2027

[Progrssive_Jedi]

Everybody knows he's garbage. That's why GGG putting his career on hold to try and unify all the belts is a waste of time. Because even when BJS is ready to cash out and take a big fight. GGG won't be first on his wish list. It will be Canelo. And even if and when GGG finally does get BJS in the ring and beats him, he will have accomplished what? Absolutely nothing. He will have beaten a C class bum (and that's being generous) that does nothing for his resume. And will add to a long list of Who the F.uck is that opponents that litter GGG's legacy.

Wait, I'm sure if you get ahold of Tom Loeffler on twitter and explain to him that K2, GGG's manager, and the fighter himself and explain to them that they don't know what they're doing.

Serious, the work they've done turning an obscure Eastern Block fighter into a global marketing athlete, it's bogus compared to what hitking the boxing scene forum expert has to say.

Maybe they'll look at your resume of building up top fighters and acquiesce to your wishes.

[Progrssive_Jedi]

Getting all the belts isn't a chess move. It means nothing in the boxing world to anyone not a hardcore Trip fan. The chess move is getting the WBO belt for negotiations. Also, we've been saying if Trip fights this guy and if he fights that guy for 18 months. Why would anyone have any confidence that any of these fights would happen? K2 has not been keen on taking risks with Trip before the Canelo fight. Chavez and a drained Froch aren't risks.

Unifying the titles means a lot, it means yes acomplishing something quite hard in the modern era, something only a few have done.

On the path he'll also break B-hops title defense record. Likely set the KO streak at MW too.

This is the similar to the path B-hop himself took. He didn't move up until he was 40+. GGG is avoided and has to find ways to get noticed. So far that's been by beating guys willing to fight, and winning titles.

You may think it's unimportant, but every time he makes a move like that the media covers it, that's more exposure.

I get you don't understand how that works, because there is hardily any nuance to your arguements. But it's absolutely true.

It's also true when Sanchez says things to purposely piss ggg haters off it draws even more attention towards him. Fans adoration isn't the only thing that sells a fight, so does a deep desire to see someone lose. Floyd showed people how true this was.

[Scipio2009]

Tommy Langford (British fighter who seems to have yet to actually fight anyone, leaving his level in doubt) or Avantidil Khurtsidze (rugged scrapped based with Lou DiBella) are likely to be at least one of the mandated fights, likely for early 2017.

After that, with Saul Alvarez supposedly moving up in weight, he'll become that second de facto mandatory, potentially called for in time to keep to Alvarez's preferred-for May 2017 date.

BJS is overstating the flexibility that he's got with his title defenses