Unbeaten #1 ranked William Scull (23-0, 9 KOs) outdueled #2 Vladimir Shishkin (16-1, 10 KOs), profitable a questionable 12-round unanimous choice to seize the vacant IBF tremendous middleweight title on Saturday night time on the Stadthalle in Falkensee, Germany.
Shishkin, 33, was the aggressor all through, touchdown clear proper fingers and showing to manage nearly each spherical of the combat. Within the twelfth, Shishkin appeared to harm the Cuban Scull with a pleasant shot, inflicting him to lose his mouthpiece.
It’s unclear if Scull spit it out or if it fell out. Both approach, he was given a timeout that will have saved him from being stopped.
The scores had been 116-113, 116-112, and 115-113.
The combat had a primary routine the place Shishkin would land a straight proper after which maintain. Through the clinches, Scull would membership him with photographs to the facet and again of his head.
Scull threw principally arm punches within the clinch and repeatedly hit Shishkin with punches behind the top. In a number of of the rounds, Scull hit Shishkin with photographs that got here after the bell had sounded. All in all, it wasn’t a fairly combat to look at.
After the combat, Scull referred to as out WBA, WBC, and WBO tremendous middleweight champion Canelo Alvarez, hoping to entice him into combating for the undisputed championship. It’s unlikely that Canelo will present any curiosity in combating Scull as a result of he’s nonetheless unknown to the boxing public within the U.S. and Mexico.
There’s no cash in a combat towards him. Canelo vs. Scull wouldn’t curiosity followers to buy the combat on PPV, even when the undercard had been loaded. Scull has no punching energy and does a whole lot of holding.
Scull’s greatest guess for a good cash combat is that if promoter Eddie Hearn desires to match his fighter Edgar Berlanga towards him. It may be fascinating if Berlanga might deal with the IBF’s 10-lb rehydration restrict, which is very uncertain.
