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Published 19:06 10 Oct 2018 BST
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Saunders listened to the MSAC hearing over the telephone and he responded angrily to the denial of a licence. While he will probably appeal the decision, it remains most likely that he will be stripped of the title he has held since 2015.
"Once you sign a contract to fight you have to comply with the contract. He didn't comply with the rules and regulations and so he wasn't licensed," WBO president Francisco Valcarcel told ESPN.
"It's something he created, something he did. It wasn't because of something that happened. But we have to give him due process."
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