Canelo stops him after 6 in my opinion. Too good in every area. He is in his prime and will apply the gradual pressure he does constantly and make Billy work the entire fight.
Can't decide if I want to see a 12 round best down or bjs absolutely banjoed. He's a horrible piece of work.
I don’t like Canelo but he makes a mockery of the rest of them with how active he is. How much better would it be if a few more were like him.
58 fights and all in his prime years. A great career and hopefully he gets out for good by his 32nd birthday.
And he’s been at it ages too. Mad to think he’s younger than Joshua. Like to see him have about 5 more then call it a day. Win a few more belts and go out at the top.
5 more years, more like. For the life of me I can't see him packing it in before he's 35. I think he'll retire much closer to 40 than 30.
If this fight was announced a few years ago I would happily say BJS would have a "chance" but, now? Cash out fight, would not surprise me if he retires after this fight. I hope I'm wrong though...
December - challenges for Callum Smith’s WBA and vacant WBC title. February - defends WBC against (a terrible) mandatory. May - Billy Joe Saunders in a unification for the WBO September - plan is to unify the division against Caleb Plant. December - he wants to fight again after unifying a division in 9/10 months. Question is, who? Would he then move up and try and win another title at Light Heavy? Or stay at SMW or maybe drop down to MW again? He’s amazing, just a shame about the tainted meat blemish.
Based on his pure ability. People put too much emphasis on recent fights in boxing. Saunders has stunk the joint out in a few of his recent fights but so did Fury before he outboxed Wilder first time round. Saunders is a big fight boxer and he’ll turn up and definitely win rounds. Canelo has improved massively since the Lara fight but that’s the blueprint for Saunders and providing that Saunders can establish his jab and most importantly sit on his punches a bit it’s not going to be the walkover for Canelo some are predicting IMO.
Agreed, all these fights at 168 are pointless as he’s just on a different level - he wants to go to 175 and properly test himself unless the focus is on simply not losing again.
I hope you’re right as we wanna see an entertaining fight and maybe BJS will raise his game for this. I just refuse to believe he’s on that level and I just think Canelo will be too strong and relentless for him. Nobody knows for sure but I think I’m right on this one.
Sanders will go the distance in my opinion but no way he takes a decision. He has the style and movement that Canelo has historically had issues with and he will be trying to get inside his head as soon as possible. After the last 3 fights going the distance would be seen as a considerable victory and give him leverage for further fights, no need to win here for Bill just needs to turn up and do his usual thing.
