Canelo Alvarez: Is Billy Joe Saunders out?

Not more canelo Álvarez just corroborated that Avni Yildirim was a package that goes one to know why the World Boxing Council put in its way, came the confirmation that yes the fans were waiting. The giant screens at Miami’s Hard Rock Stadium announced that the unification battle for world titles would take place on May 8 in the super middleweight division against Billy Joe Saunders, WBO Champion.

From that precise moment the Mexican warned that he would take a week off, to share time with his family, and then return to the gym to start preparing. Something that the British has not been able to do, who is suffering from some health problems that keep him away from the gym and, as the days go by, he is already beginning to raise doubts about whether or not he will be fit for date indicated.

The first thing Saunders heard from his own mouth was that he had suffered a flu attack that had prevented him from training just the week Canelo did it again. “I think everyone knows I have to give my best. But I’m pressured by the weather now. Ten days without training. I have the flu, I’m not in shape. I’m still heavy. I haven’t started camping properly yet.”, He told The AK & Barak show.

In the last few hours it has been said that this flu is still causing respiratory complications in the British world champion, to which was also added an injury to the scrotum that further complicates it when less than two months to the date of the fight.

So far, nothing has been said about the possibility of the billboard, for which there is not yet a defined headquarters, being canceled or postponed; but the truth is that the situation Saunders is going through puts him at a disadvantage thinking about facing the most important fight of his career.