By Daily Sports on December 24, 2017
Billy Joe Saunders says he wants to move up to super middleweight and take on newly crowned IBF 168 lb. champion Caleb Truax for his title.
Truax won the title recently when he beat James DeGale by a 12 round majority decision on December 9 and Saunders says that if the WBO will freeze his middleweight title while he moves up to 168, he’d like to fight Truax for his IBF title at super middleweight. DeGale would then vacate the IBF 168 lb. title immediately if he beats Truax.
Saunders beat David Lemieux quite easily last Saturday night to keep in line to face the winner of the May 5th rematch between Gennady Golovkin and Saul Canelo Alvarez.
Saunders (26-0, 12 KOs) doesn’t want to sit and wait needlessly without fighting to get the Canelo-Golovkin. Saunders wants to move up to super middleweight to take on Truax (29-3-2, 18 KOs) for his IBF belt, if he’s not stripped of his WBO middleweight title after moving up in weight.
There’s a very good chance the World Boxing Organization would strip Saunders if he moved up to 168 to challenge Truax for his IBF belt. Even if the WBO doesn’t strip Saunders for taking the fight with Truax, they might still strip him if he loses the fight.
“I’ve got the option to move up in weight and there are some big fights up there at 12st,” said Saunders. “I would love to fight Truax who beat DeGale, I’d be happy to take him in April if he was willing to come over. As long as I could keep my middleweight belt, I’d move up and win that IBF belt at super-middleweight too,” said Saunders.
•Photo shows Billy Joe Saunders.
Source Daily Sports
Posted December 24, 2017
You may also like...
Mikel Obi Sets Nigerian AFCON Record
VAR Confusion, Sterling Sterling And How Liverpool outwitted...
Super Sub Jota Sends Liverpool Top Of The...
Nigeria Make History With Success At U19 Cricket...
Liverpool Set To Battle Leeds United
Federation Cup: AITEO acquires naming right

Chelsea may benefit from missing Europe next season, says Rooney
3SC end 27-year wait for continental ticket
Lagos woos Otedola to champion cycle fest
African Open: Onyinyechi smashes world record as Nigeria wins 49 medals
Okpekpe Int’l 10km Race gets broadcast deal
Plymouth striker Oseni shocked by Nigeria call-up
African athletes possess NFL traits in abundance — Umenyiora
AFCON 2027: Udeze warns Chelle not to underestimate opponents
Joshua, Fury in contract stalemate
Agunbiade emerges Nigeria’s lone survivor at WTT Lagos
Nigeria call-up boosted my confidence – Alebiosu
First Eagles invite thrills Rangers’ Oputa
Rangers International going, going . . . (63,799 views)
Amaju Pinnick: A cat with nine lives (55,119 views)
Second Term: Amaju Pinnick, Other NFF Heavyweights Home to Roost •How Pinnick Broke the Jinx (53,074 views)
Current issues in Nigerian sports: Matters arising (52,640 views)
Sports Development: Zenith Bank on the zenith (52,554 views)
Missing $150,000 IAAF Grant: Solomon Dalung’s Hide and Seek game (52,457 views)
Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje’s solid footprints, commitment to sports development in Kano State (52,289 views)
NFF Presidency: Pinnick, Maigari, Ogunjobi, Okoye in Battle for Supremacy (51,852 views)
Olopade, BET9A wave of revolution in NNL (51,040 views)
Commonwealth Games 2018: Shame of Muhammadu Buhari, Solomon Dalung (49,535 views)
Ibrahimovic’s Man U exit: Whose decision is it? And in whose interest? (47,965 views)
John Mikel Obi: Segun Odegbami’s Outrageous Call! (47,409 views)