Jermall Charlo vs Billy Joe Saunders @160

Mall

 

BJS by decision.

 

I'm not a fan of Saunders but he was just much better than both of the Charlo brothers. Jermall's record was incredibly padded and flattering.

Saunders wide wide points win.

 

Billy, but he gets hurt a couple times and wins in a pot shot dance fest.

Looking back I'm happy we were spared Saunders vs. Andrade. Saunders vs. Canelo when it mattered would have been very good.

 

BJS is a quit job. No respect for him after the Nelo fight. And he'd probably lose to Mall when the going gets tough.

 

Didn’t even drop him either, and managed to still make it to the end of the round while remaining pretty responsible defensively. At least, for a dude whose eye socket got shattered.

He does deserve some flack for dropping out after mocking Dubois taking a knee against Joyce though.

 

Mate, BJS was in his career's biggest fight, the pinnacle of his and his opponent's career at the time. This was like a $100m fight where BJS was getting paid ****ing $15m guaranteed plus ppv upside, probably north of $20m. BJS had constantly highlighted his fighting spirit and his will to win and hyped himself up. He got caught with a good shot and immediately the fight left him. No doctors calling it, no begging the corner or anything, just "ah well, that's it then off I ****, thank you very much". At least Dubois had been dealing with his injury for a while before he took a knee, hell even Brook continued in GGG fight, Spence took his beating like champ (by Crawford). Champions continue until there is no hope, he's no champion and never was. His heart got found out, legitimately.

 

Ben Davidson did say that Saunders wanted to go on and even proposed going orthodox to adapt, Ben could just be covering for him but interpret it however you’d like.

 

He was much better than people pretend simply because he is basically a very trashy individual and from a perceived demo people are allowed to then judge even if his demo is not quite what people think.

But basically everyone said the same, he was very very good but let down by his other traits just like Fury.

The Lemieux fight really showed what he could do. There's even a story he did very well against Groves in sparring and Groves is much bigger and more powerful.

Saunders destroys any of these contenders and hypes if he actually prepares properly.

He also did better than anyone besides GGG against Canelo until getting his face shattered. And the fact he'd never been hurt and got his face shattered by a fighter who 'needed time' to become a MW and couldn't hurt people like Cotto basically tells us that Canelo was roided out of his mind for this fight and it makes sense because Saunders was a threat due to his skill and speed. If Canelo had won on points or normal TKO it would see more believable, but the fact he caved in Saunders' head is probably the most suspect win he ever had, even worse than Kovalev.

It's incredible people just take it at face value. Saunders was a career MW and got destroyed like he was in with a cruiser.

 

Saunders at his best over Charlo in my opinion.

 

The absolute peak of Saunders, which we didn’t see much since he was inconsistent, would absolutely clown Jermall Charlo.

 

BJS imo