Billy Joe Saunders relentlessly booed by Canelo Alvarez fans as both men make weight ahead of unification fight

Billy Joe Saunders was booed relentlessly by Canelo Alvarez’s fans, but appeared completely unfazed at their weigh-in on Friday.

The Brit is clearly in enemy territory taking on the Mexican in Dallas, Texas.

Just a small group of Saunders’ team managed to get permission to make the trip – Tyson Fury among them. He has no travelling fans in attendance.

“These fans will push me to win, these fans will not bother me,” he said after the weigh-in.

“They’re all for Canelo. They’re cheering for him now, but on the way out they’ll be cheering for me.”

Both men made weight successfully – Saunders at 167.8lbs and Canelo at 167.4lbs


The pair will square off with three of the four major super-middleweight world titles on the line.

Canelo comes in with the WBA and WBC belts, while Saunders owns the WBO title.

It appeared the fight was in jeopardy earlier this week when the Brit’s team declared that they were going home after a dispute over the size of the ring.

Saunders demanded a 24ft ring while Canelo’s team initially put forward an 18ft version. The Brits then asked for 22ft while the Mexicans insisted on 20ft.

However, this was eventually resolved with Canelo himself declaring that he didn’t care about the issue and so Saunders got his way with the 22ft ring.

Saunders is a huge underdog against Canelo, the man widely considered boxing’s pound-for-pound king and who has already won world titles in four different weight classes.

The brash Brit though, is sure of victory, which he declared would rank above the likes of Fury’s win over Wladimir Klitschko in Dusseldorf in 2015.

Saunders said: “This will be the greatest win by a Brit abroad. ‘Canelo’ has defeated six Brits, I’m the last body they’ve got to chuck out because there is no-one else coming through in the super-middleweight division who has a better chance than myself.

“People may have different views, but I have my own views and my own vision. I’m the seventh Brit and if I don’t do it, then I don’t think anyone can do it.

“So hopefully everything goes well and the main thing is that it’s a fair shake of the dice because I’m up against it with the opponent. I don’t want to be up against everything else as well.”

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