Billy Joe Saunders says Tyson Fury’s attitude that got WBC champion bested

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British professional boxer Billy Joe Saunders said his countryman, WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury, was bested by Francis Ngannou in their boxing competition, which took place last Saturday. The Romanichal world champion said that Fury got beaten because of a particular bad attitude.

Many comments are still being made concerning the match between then-boxing debutant Francis Ngannou and WBC champion Tyson Fury, whom many esteem as the Face of Boxing. In the third round of the ten-round bout, the champion was struck to the canvas by the MMA superstar turned professional boxer, who was coming from a crash course at Mike Tyson’s training camp.

Tyson Fury was scored the winner to the surprise and disagreement of many, and among those saying the victor should have been Ngannou are Carl Froch and Eddie Hearn, but Saunders posited that the contest ended in what resembled a draw.

In his lengthy statement, Saunder’s also argued that Fury was not being as serious as he should have been while fighting Ngannou, saying that Fury was not expecting much from the MMA professional.

It wasn’t a robbery. It was very close,’ Saunders began. ‘ It could’ve gone either way, and obviously Tyson got the nod.

‘He’s the champion, but it wasn’t really Tyson whatsoever. From the word go, I knew he was going to have a tough night because I know Tyson inside out.

‘Normally you see him standing up tall, getting behind that jab, using his feints. If someone said to me, ‘You’re fighting someone from the UFC in the boxing ring,’ I probably would take my eye off the ball a little bit, myself, maybe not go through the fine details.

‘The reality is, with a novice you need to make him look at the right hand and then hit him with the left hand. That’s what he needed to do. … If Tyson was a fraction of himself, Ngannou wouldn’t lay a glove on him.

‘But I’ve seen Tyson in sparring – I’ve seen the way he acts in sparring when he’s sparring certain people. To me, it was like he wasn’t switched on from word go. Fair play to Ngannou: He was a lot better than people actually thought.’

Billy Joe Saunders clearly was not happy that a debutant disgraced boxing’s most respected champion, so his judgement might have been biased. His argument was reasonable, though.