Comments Thread For: Billy Joe Saunders is 50-50 on Fighting Again, Does Not Rule Out Retirement

[moochi]

For a guy who basically fought a who's who of nobodies, he's done pretty good for himself financially.

[nino brown21]

Well billy boy you'll always be remembered for getting your face broken by canelo for taking all that ish !!!

[davef]

Only fight I'd like to see him take is Eubank II then retire

[Rockybigblower]

Yep well, i suppose if they'd spunked all their cash living the highlife they could've been fighting for scraps into their late 40's...

Hatton is doing that in bars all over Europe. Naseem is running people down in the street. Saunders is offering blow for bl0wjobs.

[I have no ears]

Your all selling him short here, yes I'll agree he's a massive ****, but what gypsy isn't, the fact is he took 4 rounds out of 8 from a prime nelo and that's more than what most boxers do, and yea I get ppl wanna see the scan but it was clear he did actually have a broken face, even nelo knew it he was celebrating even before the cnr stopped it cos he knew what had happened as soon as the punch landed, u can all rip on him and rightly so for the fact he got the same injury as dubois and pulled out just like dubois after claiming he would die in the ring before quitting, but when you're actually in the ring and your vision is completely gone that bravado quickly evaporates, I wanna see him come back as that's a bad way to go out but wouldn't be surprised if he didn't, solely cos that's a bad injury to come back from in your 30's, look at Kell brook, he's never looked the same since the Golovkin and Spence fights, dubois and inoue were young when they had that injury and much more capable of coming back strongly, I feel the hate towards bjs is more cos he's British and cos of the state of the heavyweight division at the moment there's a lot of ppl jelly in here and ready to tear into any percieved setback for a British fighter

[johnnybox]

Everybody gets humbled in life at times kids. Being on top of your game and thinking you are the best is paramount to attain a world title belt and keep it for a minute. Sure, being an ass hat gets you in trouble but that doesn't seem to be the deal breaker in these times. You can be a good human being and people will still hate. Yes Billy is or was an skid stain, hell of of boxer fam. I hope he recovers from this huge attitude adjustment, comes back as a better man and fighter period.

[Jab jab boom]

Nah he's not that bad actually - he has good reflexes and is slippery but as you correctly say he doesn't live the life in between fights. Lets not forget he took 3 rounds of Canelo, possibly 4 - he made Canelo's footwork and movement look sloppy in several instances and made him miss a lot. The problem was he literally got caught with the perfect shot as his dipping downwards coincided with the Canelo pivoting the full force of his hips into that uppercut which made a mess of his orbital and cheek. BJS had won 3 rounds on the spin coming into that 8th round and was clearly growing into the fight - who knows what the scorecards would've looked like had the fight gone the distance, we all know Canelo fades badly in fights and has stamina issues when he isn't taking PEDS.

I agree with most of what you said. That’s the frustrating part, he does have talent but his lack of dedication has been his downfall. He really hasn’t been impressive in over 3 years and thinking he’d be able to just decide he was motivated for canelo would be the difference wasn’t going to cut it.

[South Champion]

Saunders should have a fight against Callum Smith to finish his career in a less brutal fashion.

[RJJ-94-02=GOAT]

He was always cashing out vs Canelo. That’s why he quit, BJS always lacked ambition, he’s made his money though so fair play to him.

[whollisboxing]

Former two division world champion Billy Joe Saunders is not ruling out the possibility of retirement - in the aftermath of last month's stoppage loss at the hands of Saul "Canelo" Alvarez. Before a crowd of over 70,000 at AT&T Stadium in Texas, Saunders was stopped after eight rounds - when his corner waved off the fight before the start of the ninth.
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Any fighter who says they are 50-50 on retirement is essentially retired. If Billy Joe Saunders isn’t eager to fight again then he should take some time away from the sport. If a year goes by and he doesn’t have the motivation then he should make it official.