Has Billy Joe Officially Shown That He Is Elite

[techliam]

He’s in the upper echelon of Middleweights

Arguably no.3, at worst no.4

The middleweight division is starting to heat up

[TheBigLug]

Let's be honest, Lemieux getting 3 rounds by one of the judges last night is a proof that another case of Golden Boy shady judging was in play. Canelo gets a decision unless BJS totally schools him like Floyd which I don't think he can do.

Spot on.

Saunders really would need to do a job like he did last night v Canelo to get a decision, which i doubt would be the case.

I really do think Canelo might have to rely on a robbery to beat Saunders. I'm not sure he has enough power at MW to really hurt Saunders. Canelo's style of landing a few flashy combinations a round won't work v the style of Saunders and Canelo doesn't even have the high work rate to make Saunders expend a lot of energy.

Stylistically it's an absolutely awful fight for Canelo.

GGG's pressure would possibly take a lot of energy out of Saunders and wear him down at the end but Canelo wouldn't bring that.

[Derranged]

Let's be honest, Lemieux getting 3 rounds by one of the judges last night is a proof that another case of Golden Boy shady judging was in play. Canelo gets a decision unless BJS totally schools him like Floyd which I don't think he can do.

Imagine if Lemiuex legitimately won three rounds.. That judge would've given 3 or 4 more.

[RedZmaja]

Spot on.

Saunders really would need to do a job like he did last night v Canelo to get a decision, which i doubt would be the case.

I really do think Canelo might have to rely on a robbery to beat Saunders. I'm not sure he has enough power at MW to really hurt Saunders. Canelo's style of landing a few flashy combinations a round won't work v the style of Saunders and Canelo doesn't even have the high work rate to make Saunders expend a lot of energy.

Stylistically it's an absolutely awful fight for Canelo.

GGG's pressure would possibly take a lot of energy out of Saunders and wear him down at the end but Canelo wouldn't bring that.

Canelo is almost unbeatable under this GBP corruption game that they play because he's an iron chin pressure fighter who gets every round that is even remotely close scored in his favor.

You can't knock him down or knock him out, you have to totally school him for 12 rounds and even in this case Floyd (out of all people) got a MD win.

[redmish]

It puts him in the argument at 160. I would like to see him fight one of the big 3 next.

[RedZmaja]

Imagine if Lemiuex legitimately won three rounds.. That judge would've given 3 or 4 more.

There was an attempt of a robbery going on. Unfortunately for them Lemieux couldn't even make it close so they couldn't gift him more than 3 rounds.

[Floyd is TBE]

I think he could give Cantnelo some promblems

[Hond]

I don't particularly like him but he looked elite there. I thought his performance vs. Monroe Jr was lacklustre and not elite level but I guess that was an off-night by the looks of it.

Canelo, Golovkin, Jacobs, Saunders. Certainly by far the best in the division.

[MrClutch85]

Saunders is officially an elite MW

[lopetego]

This version of BJS would give anyone in the division a lot of trouble, for sure

except GGG, who would just cut the ring off, walk him down and beat him up