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

[Chuckguy]

No one gives a sh it idiot

[SkillspayBills]

I said this over a year ago. The WORST thing that happened to the middleweight division is when Saunders beat Andy Lee. Lee would have already unified with Danny Jacobs!

[Lou Cipher]

I said this over a year ago. The WORST thing that happened to the middleweight division is when Saunders beat Andy Lee. Lee would have already unified with Danny Jacobs!

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Dude in the background be like "Is this ****** ass security door to keep people out or keep us in?"

BWaHaahaaHA!!!

[batista84]

What insiders? But yes aside from Lemieux, this was always my su****ion. GBP must really believe the hype with Canelo if they're going to put him in with Lemieux. But hey he better be able to fight a guy like Lemieux first if he wants a chance to beat Golovkin.

Otherwise, yeah I figured getting Canelo BJS's belt would make sense. Then they can market Golovkin-Canelo in September as champion vs champion, and for the first unified middleweight champ since whoever did it last.

But the GGG TBA in May. Do you think that could be the jump to 168 and then he would come back down for Canelo? So Ramirez in May at 168 then Canelo at 160 in September? Or are they going to keep GGG at 160 the whole year so he doesn't have to bounce his body up and down going into the big Canelo fight?

Because ideally, weight aside, the three best opponents would be Jacobs, Ramirez (or Froch), and Canelo. Not that Jacobs, Eubank, then Canelo would be too bad either. But for legacy I think GGG needs to get a big, elite opponent like Ramirez in the ring while GGG is still at the edge of his prime. Otherwise if he's 36 years old before he moves up to 168 and he's not impressive, we will always wonder if he wasn't good/big enough, or if he'd just gotten old before he ever moved up. I want to see GGG fight these top guys before he's 36. 35 is already very late.

Agree totally with everything you said, but one thing.
1) Champion vs Champion will bring more money to the fight
2) I don't think GGG will move from 160 till he fights Canelo
3) GGG needs to fight a guy from 168

This is where I don't agree
4) I think Canelo KO's Lemiuex ala Kirkland 2.0, styllistically Lemiuex is open to eating a huge counter while he has Canelo on the ropes.

[batista84]

where did you hear all that from? what insiders?

A person from GBP was interviewed by RadioFormula, a Mexico City radio station. Let me try to find a link to post it, even thou interview is full spanish.