Weighing In - Part 51

 Billy Joe Saunders

Billy Joe Saunders, born in 1989, is a British middleweight and super-middleweight boxer.  Above, he weighs in for a fight against Matthew Hall in 2013 to defend the British & Commonwealth middleweight title.  Saunders won.  Apparently a modesty towel was not needed at the weigh-in, though he does cover up with his hands.

Above, he weights in for a fight in 2014.  An official takes off his jacket and holds it up as a screen, but he does so well after Saunders strips, and in any case, the photographer is off to the side.

Here he strips to weigh in for a 2017 fight against David Lemieux defending his WBO World Middleweight title.  Again, he covers up with his hands, but there's a brief instant ...

and thanks to the magic of digital phototography, here's the view of that instant.  By the way, Saunders won the fight.

Saunders is noted for bad behavior.  In 2018, he pulled over another car on the highway and, impersonating a cop (though he wasn't dressed as one and wasn't driving a police car), tells the driver to pull down his trousers, then remove his shirt, and then pull down his underpants (called pants in Britain) on the pretext that the man may have a concealed weapon, while he or a friend takes a video of the whole thing.  When he finally tells the man to turn around and bend over, the man refuses, and Saunders laughs and drives away, treating the whole thing as a big joke and posting the video on social media.  Above is a clip from that video.

Another video surfaced of Saunders in his car offering to sell £150 of crack cocaine to a female drug addict if she will punch a passer-by in the face.  She does, and Saunders then laughs and drives off.  Another big joke.

The British Boxing Board of Control did not see the humor in either of these incidents.  They found Saunders guilty of "bringing the sport into disrepute" and fined him £100,000.