Billy Joe Saunders targeting Caleb Truax fight

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


 

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