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"My message to him is this: 'You can keep going on about how you want all the belts, but it's put up or shut up now. You either want to fight me in June or not. You've been mentioning my name, and I'll happily, happily oblige you with a fight. Let's stop wasting time and let's go,'" Saunders told Isaac Robinson.
He continued to turn up the heat on Monday, by returning to social media outlets and sporting a t-shirt which taunted his middleweight counterpart. Saunders stated that a random person gave him the shirt, which read "GGG is a p*ssy Borat, unification with Saunders."

Saunders is so eager to cash out.

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apollo creed wrote:"My message to him is this: 'You can keep going on about how you want all the belts, but it's put up or shut up now. You either want to fight me in June or not. You've been mentioning my name, and I'll happily, happily oblige you with a fight. Let's stop wasting time and let's go,'" Saunders told Isaac Robinson.
He continued to turn up the heat on Monday, by returning to social media outlets and sporting a t-shirt which taunted his middleweight counterpart. Saunders stated that a random person gave him the shirt, which read "GGG is a p*ssy Borat, unification with Saunders."

Saunders is so eager to cash out.

I think you need to watch Billy Joe Saunders being interviewed by Kugan Cassius from the iFL TV channel. You'll find that he's actually very respectful about GGG, but he has said a couple of light-hearted tongue-in-cheek remarks about Golovkin, which he openly admitted was simply promotional banter.

Perhaps you’re right, maybe he is looking for a huge payday before he retires, but I would advise you to watch any interviews with Saunders as opposed to reading his interview transcripts, since the British sense of humour (wit, irony and sarcasm) can easily be misinterpreted if you don’t see the facial expressions of the person that said those words.

Any nonsense we hear from Saunders up until the night of his bout against GGG, will simply be WWE-style promotional hyperbole.

Saunders by UD, you heard it here first.

Maybe they are trying to build this fight up somehow before it gets a done deal.

PsychoGamerTwo wrote:Saunders by UD, you heard it here first.

Not sure if that's sarcasm, but I agree if it's not

PsychoGamerTwo wrote:Saunders by UD, you heard it here first.

Hard to win by UD when you get knocked out.

PsychoGamerTwo wrote:Saunders by UD, you heard it here first.

Why not by KO ?

boxing_rocks wrote:

PsychoGamerTwo wrote:Saunders by UD, you heard it here first.

Why not by KO ?

I hope that was a joke. BJS has no pop.

Baby Face Finster wrote:

PsychoGamerTwo wrote:Saunders by UD, you heard it here first.

Hard to win by UD when you get knocked out.

Loki wrote:

boxing_rocks wrote:

PsychoGamerTwo wrote:Saunders by UD, you heard it here first.

Why not by KO ?

I hope that was a joke. BJS has no pop.

Anyway, it is about as realistic as a win by UD.

Baby Face Finster wrote:

PsychoGamerTwo wrote:Saunders by UD, you heard it here first.

Hard to win by UD when you get knocked out.

You mean, like Jacobs, who has no chin, almost died against Pirog & got dropped by featherfisted Mora?

Fwank Warren says that he's been told that the reason for the delay in Golovkin not signing the contract to take the Billy Joe Saunders fight, is because GGG is injured.

I've read other media sources suggesting that this is simply a stalling tactic employed by K2 to see how the Canelo contract negotiations pan out.

Will the "losing their pen" catchphrase come back to haunt him?

Thoughts?

And you can't even suppose that he is really injured? In the second half of the Jacobs fight, he mainly used his right hand for light punches.

boxing_rocks wrote:And you can't even suppose that he is really injured? In the second half of the Jacobs fight, he mainly used his right hand for light punches.

I reported what the article quoted. I apologise if their claims caused offence. And I have take full responsibility for my actions when I submitted that post, because I didn't think about how these words would deeply affect others.

Correct me if i'm wrong but didn't Saunders bitch out in public when first presented with the GGG fight saying that he wasn't ready for a fighter like that or something to that end? Is that a pen in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?

caldo2025 wrote:Correct me if i'm wrong but didn't Saunders bitch out in public when first presented with the GGG fight saying that he wasn't ready for a fighter like that or something to that end? Is that a pen in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?

Saunders has admitted in an IFL tv interview that he has been waiting for GGG to hit 35 and that's why the fight didn't happen earlier.

I actually think BJS is an underrated boxer. I don't know if his absolute best will be good enough to get a points win, given that he will be spend most of the fight on the back foot.. but I don't think it will be as easy as people think it will be for GGG.

caldo2025 wrote:Correct me if i'm wrong but didn't Saunders bitch out in public when first presented with the GGG fight saying that he wasn't ready for a fighter like that or something to that end? Is that a pen in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?

Billy Joe Saunders claimed that the offer he received from K2 to face GGG last year was derisory in nature and far lower than the $4.5m quoted by ESPN’s Dan Rafel – with the Brit claiming the figure was only around the $1.5m mark.

The Romany boxer did also admit to saying that he preferred to wait to face GGG until he was approaching 35 years of age - a milestone the Kazakh puncher will achieve tomorrow.

So , Golovkin at 35 is more beatable than at 34 ?

apollo creed wrote:So , Golovkin at 35 is more beatable than at 34 ?

You should perhaps pose this question directly to Saunder's Twitter feed, since he was the one that said those things, since I doubt he frequents this forum.

And to answer your question, GGG would be slightly easier to defeat at the age of 35 than he would a year younger, no matter how small the margin, because of the way that the physical capabilities of the human body declines with age.

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darkstar81 wrote:

caldo2025 wrote:Correct me if i'm wrong but didn't Saunders bitch out in public when first presented with the GGG fight saying that he wasn't ready for a fighter like that or something to that end? Is that a pen in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?

Saunders has admitted in an IFL tv interview that he has been waiting for GGG to hit 35 and that's why the fight didn't happen earlier.

I actually think BJS is an underrated boxer. I don't know if his absolute best will be good enough to get a points win, given that he will be spend most of the fight on the back foot.. but I don't think it will be as easy as people think it will be for GGG.

I'll try to find the quotes that I am referring to but I remember being so surprised that a World Champion would come out and say how he's not ready for another boxer. I've never heard that before and I was not sure if i should call him a puss or commend him for his honesty in a world where everyone beats their chests but won't sign the contract.

I've only seen BJS fight a few times and I actually like him. He's got a fan friendly style and he's easy to root for to me. I do think that GGG has been walking around with that same Tyson persona that had his opponents defeated before they even stepped inside the ring but i think it's now wearing off on people after Brook and Jacobs fights. I never would have thought Jacobs would take him to the limit like that but everyone gets old and no one can avoid that ticking clock.

A year ago, i could never picture GGG losing a fight to anyone and now he's got me thinking that he's rather ripe for the picking actually. It's all about timing. Cotto became the lineal MW champ of the world because he caught Sergio when he was ripe. 2 years earlier and Sergio knocks him into the second row.

caldo2025 wrote:

darkstar81 wrote:

caldo2025 wrote:Correct me if i'm wrong but didn't Saunders bitch out in public when first presented with the GGG fight saying that he wasn't ready for a fighter like that or something to that end? Is that a pen in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?

Saunders has admitted in an IFL tv interview that he has been waiting for GGG to hit 35 and that's why the fight didn't happen earlier.

I actually think BJS is an underrated boxer. I don't know if his absolute best will be good enough to get a points win, given that he will be spend most of the fight on the back foot.. but I don't think it will be as easy as people think it will be for GGG.

I'll try to find the quotes that I am referring to but I remember being so surprised that a World Champion would come out and say how he's not ready for another boxer. I've never heard that before and I was not sure if i should call him a puss or commend him for his honesty in a world where everyone beats their chests but won't sign the contract.

I've only seen BJS fight a few times and I actually like him. He's got a fan friendly style and he's easy to root for to me. I do think that GGG has been walking around with that same Tyson persona that had his opponents defeated before they even stepped inside the ring but i think it's now wearing off on people after Brook and Jacobs fights. I never would have thought Jacobs would take him to the limit like that but everyone gets old and no one can avoid that ticking clock.

A year ago, i could never picture GGG losing a fight to anyone and now he's got me thinking that he's rather ripe for the picking actually. It's all about timing. Cotto became the lineal MW champ of the world because he caught Sergio when he was ripe. 2 years earlier and Sergio knocks him into the second row.

Yeah I remember another IFL tv interview where BJS was saying he needed another couple of fights before being ready to face GGG. I think fair play to him, he knew he wasn't good enough to beat GGG. The problem is BJS has only had 1 fight since then and he was fornicating terrible! I'm not sure I'd go as far as to say GGG was exposed in his last 2 fights but he certainly he hasn't looked invincible, and BJS is banking on him getting old at 35. I hope this fight happens. At this point I'm more interested in seeing this than GGG/Canelo.

darkstar81 wrote:

caldo2025 wrote:

darkstar81 wrote:
Saunders has admitted in an IFL tv interview that he has been waiting for GGG to hit 35 and that's why the fight didn't happen earlier.

I actually think BJS is an underrated boxer. I don't know if his absolute best will be good enough to get a points win, given that he will be spend most of the fight on the back foot.. but I don't think it will be as easy as people think it will be for GGG.

I'll try to find the quotes that I am referring to but I remember being so surprised that a World Champion would come out and say how he's not ready for another boxer. I've never heard that before and I was not sure if i should call him a puss or commend him for his honesty in a world where everyone beats their chests but won't sign the contract.

I've only seen BJS fight a few times and I actually like him. He's got a fan friendly style and he's easy to root for to me. I do think that GGG has been walking around with that same Tyson persona that had his opponents defeated before they even stepped inside the ring but i think it's now wearing off on people after Brook and Jacobs fights. I never would have thought Jacobs would take him to the limit like that but everyone gets old and no one can avoid that ticking clock.

A year ago, i could never picture GGG losing a fight to anyone and now he's got me thinking that he's rather ripe for the picking actually. It's all about timing. Cotto became the lineal MW champ of the world because he caught Sergio when he was ripe. 2 years earlier and Sergio knocks him into the second row.

Yeah I remember another IFL tv interview where BJS was saying he needed another couple of fights before being ready to face GGG. I think fair play to him, he knew he wasn't good enough to beat GGG. The problem is BJS has only had 1 fight since then and he was effing terrible! I'm not sure I'd go as far as to say GGG was exposed in his last 2 fights but he certainly he hasn't looked invincible, and BJS is banking on him getting old at 35. I hope this fight happens. At this point I'm more interested in seeing this than GGG/Canelo.

Golden Boy is toying with GGG again right now and I think that's the only reason why the GGG/BJS fight is not signed yet. GGG's been begging for this fight and last remaining belt and BJS seems to have given in to every demand including that "step aside money" he paid his mandatory. I'm sure that Golden Boy is making demands with GGG and causing all sort of dilemma's. Tough spot for GGG.

Difficult decision, a clear chance to make history or chase a big money fight that the other side don't want. Not yet, but maybe perhaps next year or possibly the year after.

If he can beat BJS then GGG will be the only current undisputed champion in boxing.

The first since Jermain Taylor, also at middleweight, back in 2006!