Billy Joe Saunders wary ahead of rescheduled world title fight with Andy Lee

Image: Billy Joe Saunders is adjusting his training regime after delay

Billy Joe Saunders says the delay to his world middleweight title clash with Andy Lee has left him ahead of schedule in his training.

The unbeaten 25-year-old (22-0-KO12) challenges Lee for the WBO belt in Manchester on October 10 after the September 19 clash in Limerick was postponed due to the champion picking up a virus.

That has left Saunders, who blew off some ring rust with a fourth-round stoppage of Yoann Bloyer in late July, adjusting his regime and putting back a planned training camp in Marbella.

He told iFLtv:  "I will definitely be back out to Marbella, I've just got back (to the UK).

"I'm not planning on staying here too long. (The fight's) been put back three weeks, well more a month, so I don't want to overdo it. I'm in good shape as it is, I'm in very good shape.

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(The fight's) been put back three weeks, well more a month, so I don't want to overdo it. I'm in good shape as it is, I'm in very good shape.
Billy Joe Saunders

"All three of these world title fights (on the bill), you cannot say, 'well, I'm definitely backing him 'cause he's gonna win.'

"These are fights where you look at it and think – 'that's a 50/50 fight, he's gotta get this game plan right, he's got to get that one right to win, and we're in boxing. Anything can happen.

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"Really what this is, is two travellers putting it all on the line for the fans."

On the same bill at the Manchester Arena, Liam Smith fights Michel Soro for the vacant WBO world light-middleweight title and Terry Flanagan defends his WBO lightweight against Diego Magdaleno.

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