Saunders: Lemieux hit a lot harder than Canelo

It is expected that after an almost three-year break Billy Joe Saunders (30-1, 14 KOs) will return to the ring early next year. The Briton took a long break after the first defeat in his career against Saul Alvarez (60-2-2, 39 KOs).

Saunders lost the fight early due to injury, but does not consider Canelo to be the greatest puncher he has ever faced. He considers David Lemieux, the former world middleweight champion, to be the hardest hitter, to whom he taught a boxing lesson in late 2017.

“To be honest, I expected Canelo to hit a lot harder. On this issue he was no closer to Lemieux. “I remember Lemieux hit me in the shoulder early in the fight and I thought, ‘Oh, damn, what was that?’ Nobody has ever hit as hard as Lemieux before or since,” said the former world middleweight champion. and a super middleweight who will likely return to the ring as a light heavyweight.