Boxen: KUC Field-Promotion & Agon Boxing, Falkensee, 07.10.2023
William Scull (CUB) – Cristian Fabian Rios (ARG)
© Torsten Helmke
William Scull received an in depth however unanimous resolution on Saturday, defeating Vladimir Shishkin at Stadthalle in Brandenburg, Germany to win the vacant IBF tremendous middleweight title.
The scores have been 116-113, 116-112 and 115-113, all for Scull (23-0, 9 knockouts), a Germany primarily based Cuban who entered the combat because the no. 1 rated IBF contender at 168 kilos. Shishkin (16-1, 10 KOs) of Stepnoe, Russia loses for the primary time in his eight yr professional profession.
Regardless of a title belt being at stake, the combat was devoid of the drama usually related to Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, the pound for pound champion who beforehand held the belt earlier than vacating the title.
After a measured tempo within the first eleven rounds, the bout remaining started to stay as much as its billing within the remaining spherical, as left hooks from Shishkin started to get by means of and damage Scull, inflicting him to smother and maintain from the rest of the spherical.
Shishkin entered the combat rated no. 6 by The Ring at 168 kilos, whereas Scull will probably enter the scores after being unrated heading into the combat.
Scull, 32, now lives in Berlin, close by the place the combat passed off.
Within the co-featured bout, Dusan Veletic (9-1-1, 5 KOs) boxed and potshotted his solution to a unanimous resolution win over Tomas Salek (22-6, 13 KOs) by scores of 98-92, 98-92 and 97-93. The combat was a gradual paced heavyweight brawl, with Veletic of Loznica, Serbia by means of Bosnia and Herzegovina taking the alternatives to land when his Czech opponent threw his slower, winging punches.
