Canelo Alvarez defeated William Scull by means of consentaneous selection in their unquestioned extremely middleweight title match on May 3. The courts slashed the competition 115-113, 116-112, and 119-109 in Canelo’s benefit.
The fight, however, underdelivered. Scull steered clear of assaulting Alvarez, instead circling the ring for most of the contest. The Cuban perhaps entered survival setting rather than attempting to win the aggression.
When it comes to Alvarez, a couple of body shots were his very most considerable assault during the course of the fight. Generally, it was actually an underwhelming aggression which damaged an unwanted hit fact file.
Simply 445 blows were actually thrown in the course of the centerpiece in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the minimum in a 12-round fight due to the fact that CompuBox started documenting hit statistics back in 1985.
Canelo-Scull combine to throw just 445 punches — breaking the all-time @CompuBox record for least punches thrown in a 12-round fight
Alvarez is set to take on Terence Crawford upcoming on September 12. Canelo and Crawford challenged in the ring after the battle against Scull as Turki Alalshikh brought in the much mentioned competition representative. Responding to his gain versus Scull, Alvarez said:
It was a boring fight. A fighter not trying to win and just trying to survive. I hate those kind of fighters.
Canelo Alvarez is now 63-2-2 with 39 ko wins, and also is actually right now a two-time indisputable tremendously middleweight champion. While the Scull fight had not been thrilling by any means, Alvarez remains to accumulate the wins and also strengthen his document.
His blockbuster showdown against Terence Crawford will absolutely be actually one to enjoy and supporters should anticipate a much better show than what was seen last evening against Scull.
