William Scull entered the match against Canelo Alvarez with the position of the IBF championship Super Middleweight. This is the title of Scull won in the match against Vladimir Shishkin in late 2024. Previously, Canelo was stripped of the IBF belt as prescribed and had to be given to others.
In fact, William Scull created a relatively good game in the first 3 rounds. But in the rest of the match, Canelo was completely on the body. On the side of William Scull, this boxer accepted a match with the disadvantage, without accumulating attacks for fear of being knocked out.
The match between Canelo and William Scull closed in 12 rounds. Canelo won with scores 115-113, 116-112 and 119-109. Inspection No. 1 and 2 caused more or less controversial, when the majority of the audience said Canelo won the score in 9-10 rounds, closer to the results of the 3rd assessment.
With William Scull, this was the first defeat he received after 23 previous victories. He owns an impressive achievement table, but has not shown a lot when Canelo is still too high. This is also the opening match of Thuong Dai journey 5 matches in the upcoming 18 months of Canelo.
At the present time, Canelo's professional performance is 67 matches, including 63 wins, 2 draws and 2 defeats. The rare boxers who won Canelo were Floyd Mayweather and Dmitry Bivol. Meanwhile, Gennady Golovkin once drawn with Canelo in the world when Canelo was at the peak of his career.