Comments Thread For: Saunders: I Had to Come to U.S.; Andrade Wouldn't Go to the UK

[GlassJoey]

Seems like it could be a good fight but everyone thought that about Lemieux!

Eddie Hearn was worried that BJS had taken some terrible guaranteed payday from Warren to ensure he won the purse bid. Warren admitted this but said 2.3m was too high to turn down.

Say what you will about DAZN, but if it’s getting more decent fighters decent paydays, then it’s a good thing. I can’t work out if Hearn is pimping out his U.K. fighters as easy fodder for US champs or whether he believes he can make a few new U.K. champs

[chrisJS]

I was worried about Saunders (or Andrade) pulling it and pushing this back but at $2.3m Saunders won't be pulling out.

I'm excited about this fight. Maybe the styles won't gel but it's a very significant fight between two excellent unbeaten fighters in their primes.

[Madison Boxing]

they are scared to come over here thats why. cause more often than not they come over here, get a pasting, and go back to america with their tail in between their legs.

[Iron Fister]

Yeah that was a head scratcher. That's when you need to travel, when you aren't the champion or calling the shots

Not to talk down on Andrade, but that comment of him not traveling because he isn't the champion sounds as dumb as his name Andrade deeedeeee

[Abovetheclouds]

Frank is worried because BJS and Eddie genuinely like one another but Saunders isn't going anywhere. Saunders lives by a code, a loyalty guy that will stay with his mates...even when he shouldn't.

Yea I completely agree.

Shame Warren didn't turn up though!

[Sparked_26]

Good fight but at the same time one of Eddie’s bigger American stars will probably get beaten here.

But I suppose it send out a message to some other Americans that ‘look, you’ll get well paid and you’ll get big opportunities’.

[Rip Chudd]

"But I don’t need to go overseas every single time, especially when I’m not the champion at this time.”

Yeah that was a head scratcher. That's when you need to travel, when you aren't the champion or calling the shots

[Randall Cunning]

Saunders doing what he has to do. 160 all the moneys in the US. Hearn will offer him another huge purse for Jacobs unification aswell, should they both win

[P4Pdunny]

Bjs getting a decent purse here

[SUBZER0ED]

Hearn's snatching up some of these American fighters and offering them $$$.