{"id":662,"date":"2021-05-06T07:26:51","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T07:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gosportsandentertainment.co.uk\/?p=662"},"modified":"2021-05-07T19:37:01","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T19:37:01","slug":"this-fight-is-all-about-boxing-brains-says-saunders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gosportsandentertainment.co.uk\/?p=662","title":{"rendered":"THIS FIGHT IS ALL ABOUT BOXING BRAINS SAYS SAUNDERS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Unbeaten Brit has total faith in his skills against Canelo<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Billy Joe Saunders<\/strong> says he has the boxing brain to dethrone pound-for-pound king Canelo Alvarez<\/strong> in their blockbuster Super-Middleweight unification battle on Saturday night (May 8), live worldwide on DAZN and distributed by TV Azteca in Mexico and Latin America.

  LIMITED TICKETS REMAIN ON SALE AT SEATGEEK.COM<\/a><\/strong> 

Unbeaten Briton Saunders (30-0 18 KOs) puts his WBO strap on the line for the third time against the Mexican star and is aiming to add the WBC and WBA Super belts held by the Mexican sensation.
 
Saunders has been widely regarded as having the ring smarts to be the man to hand Canelo a first defeat in eight years and be the man to take the next step to being undisputed at 168lbs \u2013 and the 31 year old says fighting Canelo on Cinco de Mayo weekend holds no fear.
 
\u201cThis fight is all about the brain,\u201d said Saunders<\/strong>. \u201cNot about power, muscle or skill, it\u2019s the brain and the game plan, and being able to execute that game plan.
 
\u201cI brush opinions off because I know what goes through my head and my mind, and what I have done in my career is through the will and want to win, and the day I lose that, I won\u2019t put a pair of gloves on again.
 
\u201cI can only control what I am in control of and that myself, not what is outside the ring. It\u2019s going to be a great fight it\u2019s one I\u2019ve wanted for years and it\u2019s finally landed. There\u2019s a lot at stake for both of us. Would I like my fans there? Yes. Would I like UK media there? Yes. If the fight was moved to the Mexican border I wouldn\u2019t care.
 
\u201cI have my own way of approaching the fight and Canelo will have too, he\u2019s done this nearly 60 times. I\u2019ll get in there as the best that I can be and that\u2019s all I can control.
 
\u201cI\u2019ve been the underdog before, I\u2019ve been the away fighter before, it\u2019s not a new position, but I\u2019m just in with a better opponent this time. 
 
\u201cIf I go in there and I win, I\u2019m not going to run and say never again, I\u2019ll fight him again, I\u2019ll fight anyone, anywhere, it doesn\u2019t bother me. It\u2019s good for boxing sometimes when the underdogs come through, and I don\u2019t just mean me here, because it puts the sport on a higher platform to be watched.
 
\u201cI\u2019m at the top of the tree where I\u2019ve done it all as an amateur, I\u2019ve had 30 fights, I\u2019m unbeaten, won every title coming through, two-weight World champion – I can sit back at night and say I\u2019m top of the pile fighting the pound-for-pound king.\u201d
 
Alvarez and Saunders clash on a huge night of action in Texas with a stacked undercard in support of the mammoth main event, with Elwin Soto<\/strong> (18-1 12 KOs) defending his WBO World Light-Flyweight title against Katsunari Takayama<\/strong> (32-8 12 KOs).
 
Kieron Conway<\/strong> (16-1-1 3 KOs) defends his WBA Intercontinental Super-Welterweight title against Souleymane Cissokho<\/strong> (12-0 8 KOs), Eddy Reynoso trained Cuban Heavyweight Frank Sanchez<\/strong> (17-0 13 KOs) meets Nagy Aguilera<\/strong> (21-10 14 KOs), Mexican-American talent Marc Castro<\/strong> (2-0 2 KOs) fights on his third Canelo undercard, Castro\u2019s old amateur foe Keyshawn Davis<\/strong> (2-0 2 KOs) faces Jose Antonio Meza (6-4 1 KO) over six rounds and it\u2019s a family affair on the night with Keyshawn\u2019s brother Kelvin Davis<\/strong> (1-0 1 KO) fights for the second time in the paid ranks, with Mexican Welterweight Christian Alan Gomez Duran<\/strong> (19-2-1 17 KOs) celebrating Cinco De Mayo weekend over eight rounds against an opponent to be named soon.
 <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Unbeaten Brit has total faith in his skills against Canelo Billy Joe Saunders says he has the boxing brain to dethrone<\/p>\n

Continue readingTHIS FIGHT IS ALL ABOUT BOXING BRAINS SAYS SAUNDERS<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":663,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[173,172],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gosportsandentertainment.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gosportsandentertainment.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gosportsandentertainment.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gosportsandentertainment.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gosportsandentertainment.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=662"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gosportsandentertainment.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":670,"href":"https:\/\/gosportsandentertainment.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions\/670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gosportsandentertainment.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gosportsandentertainment.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gosportsandentertainment.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gosportsandentertainment.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}