Photo by Matt Heasley-Hogansphotos/Golden Boy PromotionsDavid Lemieux, left, will challenge for Billy Joe Saunders' middleweight title.
The first tier is simple: Canelo Alvarez, Gennady Golovkin and Daniel Jacobs (though I’d argue that Alvarez and Golovkin are a slight level above Jacobs).
The second tier looks like this: Lemieux (who lost to Golovkin in 2015), Saunders and new middleweight Jermall Charlo.
Whomever wins Saturday on HBO should be considered the fourth-best middleweight in the world and the fighter who perhaps could look to fight Jacobs (or the winner of the potential Alvarez-Golovkin rematch). For now, though, they'll participate in fight that’s about as 50-50 as it can get (Saunders is a -120 favorite, while Lemieux is a -110 underdog).
There are, of course, other reasons to watch Saunders (25-0, 12 KOs) try to defend his title vs. Lemieux (38-3, 33 KOs). Here are three of them.
1)Can Saunders stand up to Lemieux’s power? He’s got the most devastating punch in the division, and Lemieux can stop most any fighter at any time if he lands a clean shot. Saunders is most likely a better boxer, and he managed not to get knocked out by solid punchers like Andy Lee and Chris Eubank Jr. But can he avoid Lemieux’s power for 12 rounds? After all, look what Lemieux did to Curtis Stevens in March in a fight that will be considered for the knockout of the year.
It sounds like Saunders isn’t worried about Lemieux’s knockout percentage. “Against bums, yeah, knocking out old men, but he got stuck against [Marco Antonio] Rubio,” Saunders said, referring to the 2011 bout when Lemieux got knocked out, on a recent teleconference. “He's a tough man with power. He lost his next and then fought bums all the way up until Golovkin. Curtis Stevens, he's not an A-level fighter. He's just a step up, a bit of a seasonal fighter. He's really nothing special. He dealt with him, fair play. But he got spanked by Golovkin previous to that.
">David Lemieux and Billy Joe Saunders are fighting on Saturday night for Saunders’ middleweight title and for what should be a decent payday. But even more than that, they’re basically battling to see who is at the top of the second tier of talent in the 160-pound division.
Photo by Matt Heasley-Hogansphotos/Golden Boy PromotionsDavid Lemieux, left, will challenge for Billy Joe Saunders' middleweight title.
The first tier is simple: Canelo Alvarez, Gennady Golovkin and Daniel Jacobs (though I’d argue that Alvarez and Golovkin are a slight level above Jacobs).
The second tier looks like this: Lemieux (who lost to Golovkin in 2015), Saunders and new middleweight Jermall Charlo.
Whomever wins Saturday on HBO should be considered the fourth-best middleweight in the world and the fighter who perhaps could look to fight Jacobs (or the winner of the potential Alvarez-Golovkin rematch). For now, though, they'll participate in fight that’s about as 50-50 as it can get (Saunders is a -120 favorite, while Lemieux is a -110 underdog).
There are, of course, other reasons to watch Saunders (25-0, 12 KOs) try to defend his title vs. Lemieux (38-3, 33 KOs). Here are three of them.
1)Can Saunders stand up to Lemieux’s power? He’s got the most devastating punch in the division, and Lemieux can stop most any fighter at any time if he lands a clean shot. Saunders is most likely a better boxer, and he managed not to get knocked out by solid punchers like Andy Lee and Chris Eubank Jr. But can he avoid Lemieux’s power for 12 rounds? After all, look what Lemieux did to Curtis Stevens in March in a fight that will be considered for the knockout of the year.
It sounds like Saunders isn’t worried about Lemieux’s knockout percentage. “Against bums, yeah, knocking out old men, but he got stuck against [Marco Antonio] Rubio,” Saunders said, referring to the 2011 bout when Lemieux got knocked out, on a recent teleconference. “He's a tough man with power. He lost his next and then fought bums all the way up until Golovkin. Curtis Stevens, he's not an A-level fighter. He's just a step up, a bit of a seasonal fighter. He's really nothing special. He dealt with him, fair play. But he got spanked by Golovkin previous to that.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshkatzowitz/2017/12/16/billy-joe-saunders-david-lemieux-espn-lomachenko-ratings/
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