Billy Joe Saunders | 'Eubank Jr will NEVER be a World Champion. He can't box!'

Up Front

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Sports, Soccer

4.6 • 778 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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On this week’s show we have a boxer who was borne out of a community, where we are often told that fighting is in the blood. Billy Joe Saunders is a two weight world champion, whose only career defeat came two-and-a-half years ago at the hands of Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez, in front of the biggest live boxing audience in the USA since Ali vs Spinks. Billy joins the show to announce his comeback, whilst giving us the inside scoop on a career that has featured success and controversy in equal measure. Like his good friend Tyson Fury, Billy is not afraid to speak his mind and he puts the middle and super-middleweight divisions on notice in this week’s episode of Up Front. Subscribe for future episodes and head to http://www.youtube.com/@UpFrontWithSimonJordan for full video episodes. 18+ please gamble responsibly. Warning: this episode contains language that some people may find offensive Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	In the Olympic Village we had obviously all the athletes stayed together.
0:04.0	I was knocking on Andy Murray's door at 12 o'clock at night.
0:06.0	Do you want to play FIFA?
0:08.0	That's how childish I was like in my head.
0:10.0	I was going to go and hit him, yeah?
0:12.0	There was a police van parked onto the right.
0:14.0	I went, let's just walk down here, me and you, right now we'll have it.
0:17.0	This second. When you get geared up for a fight with the best pound-for-pound fire on the planet,
0:22.2	there's not a minute of the day you don't really, it's running through your mind.
0:25.2	You don't think he's going to win a world title?
0:26.6	He'd never be world champion as long as he's got an hole in his ass.
0:29.4	Okay.
0:29.9	In this sport, everything happens for a reason.
0:32.0	And in this sport, it's the only sport you can legally get killed in. This is up front with me, Simon Jordan. I believe there are a lot of vacuous, uninformed,
0:40.3	unchallenged opinions out there. I want to get to the bottom line and cut through the nonsense.
0:44.4	So with this podcast with William Hill, I'm going to get people with strong views who think
0:48.2	they can stand them up to proper scrutiny. There's a good chance I might learn something
0:52.0	along the way, and and more importantly so might you
0:54.9	joining me in today's episode is a box of born out from a community where we're often told
1:02.2	fighting is in the blood a career that saw 30 wins along the way with his only defeat coming against
1:07.8	canalow avariz in front of the biggest live boxing audience
1:11.1	in America since Ali versus Spinks. Despite controversy, often following him, he went on to become
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