According to Sky Sports, Billy Joe Saunders will finally be fighting and will be facing Artur Akavov on Oct 22nd. The Russian Artur Akavov has a 16-1-0 record with his only loss dating back in 2012. What are your guy's thoughts on this?
Better than nothing, but he should be fighting much better. Put him in there with Willie Monroe or something at least. I guess he's just posturing for a fight with Canelo.
Cut from the same cloth as Tyson Fury in that he can box but is lazy,puts on unwanted weight and as soon as he wins his belt just wants to keep it without fighting,we taking of a guy that turned down The human punch bag Gabe Rosado on a massive stage,folk are tripping if they think he fights GGG,he'll take the Canelo fight and why not GGG is a nasty violent individual in the ring?
Decent opponent, I was going to do a thread on him but I always resisted because he's limited as hell. He'd be a decent scalp for someone like Khytrov or Derevyanchenko, BJS should aim a little higher, but its a okay warm up.
Wilder style title defense? It's not like Monroe, Stevens and Rosado are much better title defenses than the likes of Duhaupas, Szpilka, Arreola.
Akavov has improved a bit and is a decent lower tier contender. He fought in my hometown actually, i can see the arena from my window atm(200m or so). But his performance was lackluster.
They were better then Arreola and Duhaupas, at the time of the fights. And they certainly weren't easiest options on the rankings, unlike Molina, Duhaupas, Arreola and Akavov.
Akavov is an easy fight, that no one is interested in. BJS is entitled to the odd easy fight, but he had better pick a better opponent next time otherwise people are going to get bored of him in the same way they are bored of Deonkey and his fall over opponents. When the public loses interest, the cash starts to dry up. That is why its in his best interests to not take the P.