INGLE GETS SAUNDERS FIGHTING FIT

BILLY JOE SAUNDERS was fat and unfit when he began training just three months ago for his world title defence.

That’s according to his trainer Dominic Ingle, who has whipped the WBO middleweight champ into shape ahead of Saturday’s clash with Willie Monroe Jnr in London.

He answered promoter Frank Warren’s SOS to train Saunders because of concerns the unbeaten Traveller’s lifestyle was holding back his career.

The no-nonsense Ingle moved Saunders (above) into a house opposite his Sheffield home and imposed a strict 9.30pm curfew.

“He came into camp fat and unfit,” said Ingle. “But he has worked hard and been committed to the training camp. “He hasn’t put a foot wrong. “His nutrition has been wrong but all the pieces are fitting together now and Billy can show what he should have been over the last four or five years.”