Canelo Álvarez beat William Scull in a unanimous factors choice Sunday to turn out to be undisputed tremendous middleweight champion once more.
The 34-year-old Álvarez is a four-weight world champion and entered the battle with the WBA, WBC and WBO titles at 168lb.
He was stripped of the IBF belt final July when he declined to make a compulsory protection in opposition to Scull. Álvarez turned a two-time undisputed champion within the division for the second time when the judges scored it 115-113, 116-112 and 119-109.
The battle in opposition to IBF champion Scull didn’t stay as much as the hype. Moments after the choice was declared, the promotion for a proposed 12 September battle between Álvarez and Terence Crawford started.
Álvarez was combating outdoors the US or Mexico for the primary time and needed to make loads of changes, together with adjusting to the time zone. The fighters walked into the ring and the anthems began round 6.20am native time (11.20pm ET Saturday) in Riyadh, timed so it was in prime time on the US west coast.
The opening rounds have been gradual with each boxers feeling for vary and the depth steadily lifted with Scull throwing many extra punches however barely touchdown any. Álvarez, against this, stayed affected person and was touchdown highly effective physique punches.
Scull saved transferring round, dodging and shuffling, irritating Álvarez, who later stated he hated combating that model of boxer.
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