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Defeat For Andy Lee
Saunders though took the majority decision to become Hatfield’s first boxing world champion.
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Andy Lee lost his WBO World Middleweight title to Billy Joe Saunders in a cagey contest in Manchester on Saturday night.
Saunders spoke of possibly giving Lee a rematch in London if it makes good business sense. It was that close for the defending champion, and that hard-earned by Saunders. Eubank Jr said he was going for the WBA route so let him go fight Gennady Golovkin. I’ve had to work so hard for that title and I now know what it takes to win it and I need to be on top form to compete at this level – but let me tell you it will take a good man to take it away from me.
“I won’t take any of their b******s anymore – they love talking about world titles but they don’t want to get in there and actually fight for one”.
The mournful expression on Lee’s bruised face confirmed that truth, just as the smiling, glove-touching sportsmanship between him and Saunders under-scored the mutual respect of blood brothers. For now, Billy Joe Saunders is the new WBO middleweight titleholder. I’d rather give [British champion] Nick Blackwell a shot than give him one. “But he didn’t do it. There was a lot of hard work put into it and it was very frustrating”.
That’s pretty much it for Saunders as far as him fighting United Kingdom fighters that the British boxing fans would be interested in seeing him fight. In the opposite corner Saunders clearly switched back to a more economical style in a bid to steal rounds. So if he beats him, then we’ll have a big unification fight – that’s good, isn’t it?
Saunders seemed to rally in the tenth, but it was Lee who finished the strongest as he made a last-ditch attempt to hold on to his title. I learned off Korobov and said “I won’t rush”.
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Billy Joe Saunders has shrugged off Chris Eubank Jr’s challenge and would prefer to make his first defence against Miguel Cotto. I would like to wish everyone reading this a happy Christmas and a wonderful New Year. There wasn’t really a point in which Kelly had Smith in trouble but I saw enough from the challenger to be excited about seeing him in the domestic middleweight mix for 2016. I don’t think so.