Alvarez points win sets up Crawford super-fight

After defeating William Scull to reclaim the undisputed super-middleweight title, Saul “Canelo” Alvarez will face Terence Crawford in a super-fight in Las Vegas in September.

As the Mexican superstar struggled to cut off the ring in a dull contest in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Scull danced around for 12 rounds and rebuffed Alvarez with potshots.

Ultimately, Alvarez’s power punches to the body won him the bout with scores of 115-113, 116-112 and 119-109.

“It was a dull fight,” the player said. A fighter is only trying to survive by not attempting to win. Alvarez, 34, said, “I detest those kinds of fighters.”

After the fight, Crawford and two of the sport’s biggest names posed for pictures in the ring.

On September 12th, they will meet at Allegiant Stadium, which has a capacity of 65 000.

Crawford, 37, is a four-division and undisputed champion in the two-weight division, but he’ll advance to light-middleweight.

Alvarez made his first professional ring walk at the unusually early 06:20 local time to accommodate audiences back home when they were battling outside of Mexico or America.

Alvarez started feeling less and less like his rival as he frequently does. In the third round, Scull sneaked an uppercut through Alvarez’s guard while he landed right and left hooks to the body.

Alvarez was being forced to withdraw due to the movement of 32-year-old Cuban Scull, who was unable to apply any real pressure.

After the seventh, Scull smiled back to the corner as if he knew he was going to cause the uproar.

The cameras focused on a bored-looking Crawford at ringside despite the absence of much action inside the ring.

Before the ninth minute, British referee Kieran McCann told the fighters, “Let’s fight, there’s too much running around.”

After the 10th, Alvarez shook his head as he returned to his corner, clearly enraged by his opponent’s direction.

Scull complained about low punches, the majority of which were legitimate ones, and Alvarez was given a warning after his opponent turned his back in the eleventh.

The more detailed scorecards showed that neither fighter had a chance of winning the difficult contest.

After claiming his 63rd career victory, Alvarez said, “He came just to survive until the 12th round.”

Alvarez reclaims his position as the king of the super-middleweight division after being denied the IBF belt last year in favor of Scull.

He claimed that Crawford would be “pleasure” if he were to challenge him for all four world titles.

Alvarez remarked, “One of the best out there, and I like to share with that kind of fighter.”

Crawford is the defending WBA light-middleweight champion and has won all 41 professional fights, but his weight disadvantage makes him a slight underdog.

He called the blockbuster fight against Alvarez the “biggest fight of the past ten years.”