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“I think that Billy fought well. I thought he boxed well, I thought it was a close fight up until the point that it was stopped. He went out on his shield. They made their call, and it was the right decision I thought.”
After Dubois’ November 2020 loss to Joyce in which he suffered a severe eye injury of his own, Saunders had criticized him for not fighting through: “If my two eye sockets were broken, my jaw was broken, my teeth were out, my nose was smashed, my brain was beaten, I was not stopping until I was knocked out or worse. I don’t agree with a man taking the knee and letting the ref count him out.”