Alvarez Points Win Sets Up Crawford Super-fight

Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez will look Terence Crawford successful a Las Vegas super-fight successful September aft outpointing William Scull to regain nan undisputed super-middleweight title.

Scull danced astir for 12 rounds and disappointment Alvarez pinch potshots, arsenic nan Mexican superstar struggled to trim disconnected nan ringing successful a dull title successful Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Ultimately, Alvarez's powerfulness punches to nan assemblage won him nan bout pinch scores of 115-113, 116-112 and 119-109.

"It was a boring fight. A combatant not trying to triumph and conscionable trying to survive. I dislike those benignant of fighters," Alvarez, 34, said.

Crawford entered nan ringing post-fight and 2 of nan sport's biggest names posed for a face-off.

They will meet astatine nan 65,000-seater Allegiant Stadium connected 12 September.

Crawford, 37, is simply a four-division and two-weight undisputed champion but will beryllium moving up from light-middleweight.

"Everything happens for a logic and there's a logic why I'm here. In September I'll show nan world what greatness looks like," he said.

Fighting extracurricular of Mexico aliases America for nan first clip arsenic a professional, Alvarez made his ringing locomotion astatine nan unusually early 06:20 section clip to cater for audiences backmost home.

As he often does, Alvarez started slow to consciousness retired his opponent. He landed correct and near hooks to nan assemblage successful nan 2nd information and Scull sneaked an uppercut done Alvarez's defender successful nan third.

But Alvarez was incapable to use immoderate existent unit and was being made to miss by 32-year-old Cuban Scull's movement.

Scull walked backmost to nan area smiling aft nan seventh, arsenic if he felt he was connected people for nan upset.

With small action happening wrong nan ring, nan cameras panned to a bored-looking Crawford astatine ringside.

"Let's fight, there's excessively overmuch moving around," British referee Kieran McCann told some fighters earlier nan ninth.

Visibly irritated pinch his opponent's approach, Alvarez shook his caput arsenic he walked backmost to his area aft nan 10th.

Scull complained astir debased blows, astir of which were morganatic punches, and Alvarez was warned for punching erstwhile his force had his backmost turned successful nan 11th.

The person scorecards reflected really neither combatant asserted their power successful nan tedious contest.

"He came conscionable to past until nan 12th round," Alvarez said aft his 63rd profession win.

"I dream September will beryllium different benignant of fight."

Alvarez was stripped of nan IBF loop alternatively of facing Scull past twelvemonth but erstwhile again becomes nan king of nan super-middleweight division.

He said it would beryllium a "pleasure" to take sides each 4 recognised world titles against Crawford.

"Crawford is 1 of nan champion retired location and I for illustration to stock pinch that benignant of fighter," Alvarez said.

Crawford is nan reigning WBA light-middleweight champion and has won each 41 pro bouts but is apt to beryllium a flimsy underdog because of his weight disadvantage.

He described nan blockbuster against Alvarez arsenic nan "biggest conflict of nan past decade".

While it has nan imaginable to break container agency and gross receipt records, immoderate boxing purists consciousness Alvarez has ducked nan hard-hitting David Benavidez, an unbeaten American combatant pinch Mexican practice who has 24 stoppages successful 30 wins and is nicknamed 'The Mexican Monster'.