Over the weekend, WBO middleweight title holder Billy Joe Saunders won a twelve-round decision over Russia's Artur Akavov in in Glasgow, Scotland by scores of 116-113, 116-112 and 115-113. Saunders admitted afterwards it was a terrible performance: “I’ve been out of the ring for a year and was a bit overweight. Tonight, was really, really flat and I want to apologize to the fans. I’m an honest man, that was terrible. That was not a world champion performance. Most British fighters perform better than that, but a win’s a win. I’m happy that I performed like that against him rather than someone like Canelo or Golovkin.” Today, Saunders' promoter, allegedly expressed his own unhappiness with Saunders' showing: "As Bill also stated in his post-fight appraisal, how can you talk about taking on the current greats after a display like that? What I do know is that Bill is not daft and is fully aware his preparations were not of an acceptable level and it needs to be a lesson learned. What we witnessed from him in Scotland was not good enough. It is all very well being critical of yourself in hindsight, but you don’t need to be an Einstein to realise there was a problem there and I have seen some of the photos that were floating around in the weeks leading up to the fight and it is not what a professional athlete should look like."
source: allegedly.com
allegedly Rips Billy Joe Saunders
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Ruthless-RKO
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class act BJS
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He was some size running aboard with his top off. How many weeks out was that? Anyone still got the pic?
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Was on the " current scene" board and to be honest I have never seen a top fighter in such a bad way .
maybe he has learned a hard lesson here .
maybe he has learned a hard lesson here .
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It's on the 1st page of this thread:TheGoods wrote:He was some size running aboard with his top off. How many weeks out was that? Anyone still got the pic?
http://boxrec.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=206936
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love the " jesus tittyfucking christ " response to that 