Billy Joe Saunders to face Saul “Canelo” Alvarez on May 8. The fight will take place at AT&T Stadium and 60 thousand people are expected.
WBC heavyweight champion, Tyson Fury, believes Saunders’ best chance of beating Canelo is to take him the distance.
“Anyway, it’s [Canelo vs. Saunders] is a top fight at middleweight or super middleweight. I think Billy Joe gives him a boxing lesson. That’s what I’m here to see. That’s what I think will happen.” Fury said.
“I think everyone raves on about Canelo about how good he is and how he’s such a great guy and whatever, but I just think every time Billy Joe steps into the pressure cooker, he delivers much like myself.” Fury added.
Saunders will defend his WBO super-middleweight title. Meanwhile Canelo will defend his WBA (Super) and WBC title.
“That’s what we’re [Saunders] up against here. We’re up against a good fighter in Canelo, who is physically strong and mature, big for the weight, and who likes to hold his feet and fire good, hard punches and has good head movement.” Fury said.
“But Billy Joe is a master boxer, slick, a southpaw with good footwork and good ring IQ, and unbeaten since he was 11-years-old. He’s now however old he is; he’s 31.
“There’s a reason why he hasn’t been beaten since he was 11 or however old he was. He got beat in the Olympics, sorry. He was 17. Canelo has tasted defeat, and we know he can be out-boxed because we saw it.” Fury added.
The winner of Saturday’s fight will face American Caleb Plant, champion by the International Boxing Federation, at the end of the year, when there will be the unification of the main titles in the super middleweight.
