Comments Thread For: Saunders vs. Lemieux Deal Reached For December 16, HBO

[Butch.McRae]

The irony is that Saunders has in a short amount of time fought ALMOST just as good a resume as ggg has currently in his entire career. And hes known as the supposed biggest joke champion there is.

He fought Lee a legit opponent easily as good as anyone on gggs resume pre 2017,he fought Eubank who is better than anyone on gggs resume pre 2017,& now hes going to have fought 2 of gggs best career wins in 1 yr alone. It puts into perspective what a mediocre resume ggg had pre Jacobs.

Lots of truth here.

Expect a BJS decision in this one.

[kushking]

yeah.. all 0 of them.

Are u kidding? Gggroupies were claiming hed ice Canelo since ggg fought him, they've been claiming hes some ko monster etc. & that since ggg put him on ***** street that its proof hed do exact same thing to canelo.

Now that ggg didn't murder ginger like they've claimed suddenly he was never that great, gggroupies always say gggs current best opponents on resume are beasts then when he fought good opponents for 1st time in Jacobs & nelo they feel secure admitting he was average,even though in reality hes as 1 dimensional & low ring iq as they come.

[j.razor]

Damn HBO is really deep on the Middleweight division another solid fight

Stop the propaganda!

[Sickmerch1990]

My bet is saunders pulls out injured put me house on it

[j.razor]

Stil better than no boxing on HBO at all.

Lets just be happy about the sport of boxing having a GREAT year!

True but people making this out to be the greatest thing ever.....

[RJJ-94-02=GOAT]

Really?? Cotto is over the hill & done, Berchelt vs Salido will be just another brawl & Lemeiux vs Saunders both SU*K!!!

Have a day off bro, Cotto-Ali is admittedly a poor fight, but Berchelt vs Salido will be a fun action packed fight and Lemieux vs Saunders is a fight between two legit top 10 middleweights with an interesting clash of styles.

[Lopez_Boxing]

Stil better than no boxing on HBO at all.

Lets just be happy about the sport of boxing having a GREAT year!

**** man. I hope this guys aren't as picking with their girlfriends as they are boxing, they're going to be single forever

[RJJ-94-02=GOAT]

Really?? Cotto is over the hill & done, Berchelt vs Salido will be just another brawl & Lemeiux vs Saunders both SU*K!!!

Have a day off bro, Cotto-Ali is admittedly a poor fight, but Berchelt vs Salido will be a fun, action packed fight and Lemieux vs Saunders is a fight between two legit top 10 middleweights with an interesting clash of styles.

[uniquehump]

"And the new....."

[Boxing Logic]

The irony is that Saunders has in a short amount of time fought ALMOST just as good a resume as ggg has currently in his entire career. And hes known as the supposed biggest joke champion there is.

He fought Lee a legit opponent easily as good as anyone on gggs resume pre 2017,he fought Eubank who is better than anyone on gggs resume pre 2017,& now hes going to have fought 2 of gggs best career wins in 1 yr alone. It puts into perspective what a mediocre resume ggg had pre Jacobs.

Lee is not that good. He is on the Matthew Macklin level. If those two had fought, it would have been a competitive fight. And Rosado did just as well, or better, than Lee, vs Quillin, but you give BJS credit for decisioning Lee but not GGG credit for KOing Rosado with the flu. Shows your bias. Martin Murray would have beaten Lee. GGG fought a lot of guys on that level before 2017. Peaking Curtis Stevens likely KO's chinny Lee. GGG stopped him. Rosado, Murray, Macklin I've already mentioned, all on Lee's level or better, peaking Kasim Ouma would have probably stopped Lee, GGG stopped him too. Marco Rubio went 12 rounds against Chavez Jr at 168. Chavez Jr stopped Lee. GGG stopped Rubio. David Lemieux is way better than Lee, definitely would have chin checked him, GGG stopped Lemieux. These are facts.

And as for the Eubank Jr win, I'll say that depending on if Eubank Jr actually turns out to be good, then Saunders could be better than people give him credit for. After all, he's a skilled southpaw who is big for the weight and has underrated power. But, we still know nothing about Eubank Jr. He's about to have his big step up against someone who has already been stopped twice by a B+ level guy in Carl Froch. Maybe after that, we'll know how good Eubank Jr is, or maybe we still won't, because how good is George Groves, really?

So, given that no one BUT GGG has been willing to fight the other best guys in the division until now, we still have no idea how good Eubank, or Saunders, are. Saunders-Lemieux and Eubank-Groves may be the first steps to finding out, but it's still just a first step. Hopefully they continue fighting the best at 160 afterwards, and then we'll really find out.