Billy joe royal funeral4/24/2023 Professional career Middleweight Early career In early December 2008 Saunders turned professional. He was subsequently suspended for "lewd behaviour", allegedly pertaining to an incident with a local woman during a pre-season training camp in France. In Beijing he beat Adem Kılıççı in the first round but lost to old foe Carlos Banteux in the second. To become the first person from the British Romanichal community to qualify for the games. At the European area qualifier in Pescara, Italy he beat European champion Andrey Balanov and Kakhaber Zhvania, but lost in the semi-final to Oleksandr Stretskyy before beating Pavol Hlavačka for the all-important third spot. In 2008 Saunders qualified for the Beijing Olympics in the welterweight division at the age of 18. Saunders won his first 49 amateur fights at senior level, including the 2007 Commonwealth Championships and the 2008 Strandzha Cup, edging out Cuban Carlos Banteux. Saunders fought for Cheshunt Amateur Boxing club and also at Hoddesdon Amateur Boxing Club. His great-grandfather, Absolom Beeney, was one of the community's most famous bare-knuckle boxers. Originally from Cheshunt, Saunders grew up in a Romanichal travelling community near Hatfield, Hertfordshire. On 19 December 2015, Saunders made history by competing in the first world title fight contested between two members of the travelling community with his opponent Andy Lee Saunders won the bout by majority decision to become WBO middleweight champion. In the same year, he won gold at the EU Championships. Saunders represented Great Britain at the 2008 Olympics as an amateur, reaching the second round of the welterweight bracket. At regional level he held the European, British, and Commonwealth middleweight titles between 20. He is the first fighter from the Travelling community to win world championships in two weight classes, including the WBO middleweight title from 2015 to 2018 and the WBO super-middleweight title from 2019 to 2021. Billy Joe Saunders (born 30 August 1989) is a British professional boxer.
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