Saul’s first Arab Canelo Álvarez was not a seductive story, of those who love spectators as a reverie. Although he won by unanimous decision against Cuban William Scull who exhibited athlete or escapist skills, the tapatío did not seem comfortable with the opponent’s style. Anyway, he won and above all the true lawsuit that awaits one of the best fighters of the moment was announced, Terence Crawford, who went up to the quadrilateral to announce the lawsuit in September in Las Vegas and make the first face to face of that expected event.
Canelo He recovered before Scull the belt that was missing, that of the FIB, to add it to his other girdles, that of the WBB, OMB and AMB and return to be undisputed champion of the supermedian division.
The real climax was when Turki al-Sheikh, the minister and responsible for bringing the sport to Saudi Arabia, gave him the Canelo A gold belt and confirmed the fight for September 12 against Crawford.
“We will be facing two of the main boxing figures of our era,” said Al-Sheikh.
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Scull was a stranger until Canelo He was stripped of not accepting the compulsory fight of the FIC to defend the supermedium weight belt, so he was stripped and the Cuban thus became the champion of that organism.
Now Canelo I wanted to recover that girdle to have all the titles in the category again. A good start for his stage in Arabia, the first of the four presentations he agreed with the Saudi.
Even so, Scull wanted to appeal to the prestige that the Cuban Boxing Navy has. Atlético, muscular and agile, but without traces of representing a risk for the Mexican.
Caneloin contrast, it already has a lot of tarp and knows how to administer the risk. Although several fights already accumulate without achieving a knockout, he wins from his experience and the technique rehearsed that has become his natural way of moving. He advanced slowly, corpulent, like a bull that corners moving its cornal colossal in pendulum movements.
Canelohe has recognized it, it takes to take off in his fighting, he begins calculating and analytical and this time the same thing happened, although he could never reach the point he craved. The first episodes advanced to cut the outputs to a scull very moved on the sides, but with that volatility that the dams and not predators have.
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The Mexican seemed impatient because that soon became a fight and less a tactical game where there are eventually blows. The Cuban managed to lift the face of the redhead with an uppercut in the fifth assault, but the Mexican knows how to fit blows without too much ravages. Canelo He mainly attacked the rival’s body, a traditional strategy that prays: hitting down so that the head falls alone. But as time advanced, it looked a little anxious for not bending the adversary.
Suddenly. Scull gained confidence and with the advantage that gave him a greater scope of height and arms, recalled that the jab can also be an argument that hurts. The Mexican’s face rose color with the touch of the gloves leather.
“Do not let the bastard be created, you have to win round Round. Let it do your blowjobs, that bastard will never stop, so do not leave it,” Eddy Reynoso advised him, his coach who has accompanied him throughout his career.
Scull danced on tiptoe, like a mischievous devil who appears to the gullible and scares them with their games of appearances: here I am, now I am here. A escapism work that did not allow Canelo He will close it to show off with the power of his punch.
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Canelo He began to show fed up. Like a Frank Sinatra cold that cannot be unfolded in the sacred monster that his thirsty audience awaits. In his corner he did not seem comfortable and Eddy Reynoso told him to walk, not to be planted and above all that his guard would not neglect. Canelo It seemed that he only yearned to approach Scull enough to do all that he prepared for months of confinement in the gym.
That Cuban escapist, however, exhibited amazing legs, spring from left to right and agile right, as if they had worked endless sessions of athletics or sauce on a dance floor. And that dance never reached the expected fight that acquires war dyes that everyone wants to see in Canelo. It will be for another occasion.
The wake of Canelo In Arabia
The global success of the Canelo It has so much force that it also served to tow other Mexican fighters to appear in the new world elite sport showcase. The industry in this sector begins to settle in Saudi Arabia, a kingdom that has invested extraordinary amounts of money to attract the main shows and figures that populate the imaginary of this era.
It is not a simple strategic investment of Saudi Arabia in the financial sense, but of putting the fortune that comes from the oil reserves of that country to change its global identity, indicated by the violations of human rights in the kingdom.
Saudi Arabia, through a public investment fund that has about 925 billion dollars, according to calculations from the Danish Play The Game organization, which investigates corruption in sports and promotes democratic values in this field.
This expansion, however, is not just about raising the presence of Saudi Arabia in sport, but is part of a meticulously elaborated strategy to transform the global image of the kingdom and turn the sport into a powerful instrument of geopolitical influence, ”says the report that Play The Game recently published.
One of the Mexicans who traveled in the cosmic wake of the Canelo It is Marco Verde, Olympic runner -up in Paris 2024 that returned to Mexico to the boxing podiums, and debuted tonight as a professional but big, in the largest showcase that can exist at this time and as a support of the highest sports figure in our country.
There were nerves like never. Perhaps that was that or the desire to stay that led Verde to overcome his rival, the regiomontano Michel Galván Poina, in just 44 seconds that did not allow or get an idea of what this young man already is as a professional, but that as Amateur paralyzed Mexico during the Olympic Games last year.
For his part, another Mexican in Riad was Jaime Munguía, who had his revenge and defeated the Frenchman Bruno Surace by unanimous decision -the same who gave his first knockout in his career last year. The Tijuanense had it in mind so as not to commit that carelessness that at a desperate moment cost him a devastating defeat in 2024.
