Saunders vs Lemieux: When is the WBO middleweight title fight? Start time, TV channel
The 28-year-old beat Willie Monroe Jr at the Copper Box in London back in September although he failed to get the knockout he had hoped for.
The bout took place on the same night as Gennady Golovkin’s super-fight with Canelo Alvarez - Saunders has the only belt in the division that does not belong to GGG - but the Brit could not stop Monroe Jr to announce himself as the obvious next man to fight the Kazakh.
Lemieux meanwhile has already faced Golovkin, putting his IBF strap on the line back in 2015 and losing by knockout in the eighth round.
But the defeat remains his only one since 2011 and the Montreal native is expected to test Saunders to his limits in his hometown.