Shefat Isufi: record, next fight and profile →
BILLY JOE SAUNDERS came face-to-face with Shefat Isufi who he meets for the WBO interim super-middleweight world title at the Lamex Stadium, home of Stevenage FC on Saturday May 18, live on BT Sport
The Billy Joe Saunders-Shefat Isufi fight is official. Promoter Frank Warren and broadcaster BT Sport announced Monday that Saunders and Isufi will fight for the WBO’s interim super middleweight title May 18. Their bout will take place at 6,700-seat Lamex Stadium, a soccer venue that’s home to Stevenage FC, in Hertfordshire, England, Saunders’ home county.
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Former WBO middleweight champion Billy Joe Saunders admits that there is some uncertainty with respect his scheduled return. Last month, it was announced by the World Boxing Organization that Billy Joe Saunders and Shefat Isufi were ordered to collide for the vacant title at 168-pounds. Both camps were issued a letter to collide for the vacant belt, and their contest was set to take place on April 13 in London.
We had to work very hard and pull out all the stops behind the scenes to deliver Billy Joe Saunders a shot at another world title and now it is down to him to join the club of two-weight world champions by taking care of business against the WBO No.1 ranked Shefat Isufi.
As previously reported, Billy Joe Saunders and Shefat Isufi will go head to head for the vacant WBO super middleweight title on April 13. Saunders was crowned WBO king at middleweight in late 2015, completing three successful defences of his strap before vacating it in October last year, having failed to receive a licence to box in Boston against Demetrius Andrade.
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BILLY JOE SAUNDERS describes the prospect of fighting for the WBO super middleweight world title against Shefat Isufi as the beginning of a new chapter in his always colourful career. The unbeaten former WBO middleweight champion will bid to become a two-weight world champion on April 13 at The SSE Arena, Wembley live on BT Sport, in a fight that he hopes will unlock the door towards the marquee encounters he has long craved.
It turns out there will be an April 13 boxing event on Wembley grounds after all. The headlining act, however, isn’t remotely close to what anyone expected up until the time of the surprise announcement. Now occupying the date is unbeaten former middleweight titlist Billy Joe Saunders, who will move up in weight to challenge Germany’s Shefat Isufi for the vacant World Boxing Organization (WBO) 168-pound title. The fight, which will take place at SSE (Wembley) Arena in London, was announced at a press conference in London held by promoter Frank Warren, who was full of industry surprises on Monday.
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