According to MTK Global, WBO super middleweight champion Billy Joe Saunders had this to say about a possible fight vs. Saul "Canelo" Alvarez: “I’m not ready in September. You can say to me, ‘Billy Joe, a billion pounds [dollars], but you’re not ready and you’re going to get beat.’ I would say keep it. Let me get ready, let me win and I will fight for free. I’m nobody’s stepping stone. I’m not another belt for Canelo. They want to try mind games; that don’t work with me, I play the biggest mind games in British boxing.”