WBO World Middleweight Champion Billy Joe Saunders has laid out his cards. The unbeaten slick southpaw has publically reiterated his desire to fight either Canelo Alvarez or Gennady Golovkin in early 2017.
Frank Warren interview on Billy Joe Saunders Video - Undefeated WBO World Middleweight Champion Billy Joe Saunders (23-0 12 KOs) will make the first defence of his title against Russia’s Artur Akavov (16-1 7 KOs) on Frank Warren’s mouth-watering October 22 Motorpoint Arena Cardiff show, live and exclusive on BoxNation.
Frank Warren on Tyson Fury and Terry Flanagan Video - Undefeated WBO World Middleweight Champion Billy Joe Saunders (23-0 12 KOs) will make the first defence of his title against Russia’s Artur Akavov (16-1 7 KOs) on Frank Warren’s mouth-watering October 22 Motorpoint Arena Cardiff show, live and exclusive on BoxNation.
I was deeply saddened by the news of the passing of Mike Towell following his British welterweight eliminator contest in Glasgow on Thursday night. ‘Iron’ Mike’s partner Chloe and his family and friends, I am sure are in the thoughts of everybody in the boxing community and beyond.
Our return visit to Cardiff on October 22 promises to be some night – the show just keeps getting bigger and better. So successful was our last stop in the Welsh capital back in July, we are going back to a bigger venue with an even more stellar cast list.
Through no fault of his own, the pause button has been pressed on the career of Tyson Fury and I, for one, believe that is what it is – just a pause. It has been widely documented that Tyson is suffering from mental health issues and, that being the case, he must now be given the time, space and support to enable him to make a full recovery.
Frank Warren, who promotes WBO middleweight champion Billy Joe Saunders (23-0, 12KOs), is very willing to negotiate a deal for a unification with WBA/WBC/IBF/IBO champion Gennady 'GGG' Golovkin (36-0, 33KOs).
I don’t anticipate getting Liam Smith back in the world title fold being a lengthy process – and nor should it be. If anything, the stock of Beefy the brave has risen after he went toe-to-toe with one of the greats of the sport in Saul Alvarez.
When I was first negotiating a promotional deal with Chris Eubank snr to sign his son, he made a weird tasteless analogy of his son as a boxer, saying that he was 'The best p*ssy I’d ever have.'
Photos of Post Fight Press Conference For Canelo vs. Smith - Canelo Alvarez knocked out Liam Smith and called out Gennady Golovkin. Alvarez stopped Smith in the ninth round Saturday night after dropping him in the previous two rounds, winning the WBO light middleweight championship before a record crowd of 51,240 at AT&T Stadium.