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Former four-division world champion Juan Manuel Marquez says Canelo Alvarez’s subsequent opponent, William Scull, is a “nobody in the sport of boxing.”
Scull: A “Nobody”?
Marquez feels that Canelo must battle “good opponents,” and he doesn’t assist his determination to face IBF tremendous middleweight champion Scull (23-0, 9 KOs) on Could third.
That is Canelo’s first bout of his four-fight cope with Turki Al-Sheikh, and it’s designed to arrange the Terence Crawford conflict on September thirteenth. The aim of Canelo combating the obscure 32-year-old Scull is to permit him to seize his IBF belt to change into the undisputed champion at 168.
Then Canelo may have the 4 titles on the road when he faces Crawford. In different phrases, it creates faux, synthetic curiosity within the Canelo-Crawford match. It’s all superficial. Including one other title to that matchup gained’t manufacture extra drama as a result of followers see the battle as a cash seize and retirement match for the getting old 37-year-old Crawford.
The way in which to get followers excited concerning the battle could be for Turki to place Terence’s toes to the fireplace, instructing him that he should first show himself at 168 in Could or June in opposition to certainly one of these fighters or else:
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Turki’s Robust Love Wanted
Turki is paying Crawford some huge cash to battle Canelo, however he’s not getting probably the most out of it as a result of the Nebraska native is unproven at 168, and he’s determined that he’s simply going to attend till the September match. That appears dangerous, exhibiting that Crawford is simply on the lookout for a payday. Turki ought to give Crawford some robust love, telling him to run the above mini-gauntlet to get the Canelo golden prize payday. If he refuses, Turki ought to wash his fingers of Terence and say, ‘Good riddance.’
The hardcore boxing followers who know of Crawford will see this as a tragic, pathetic, cowardly strategy to get an enormous retirement payday. Followers who solely casually comply with the game don’t understand how Crawford is, and so they gained’t wish to see Canelo battle him as a result of he’s not somebody they’re fascinated with. He’s not Mexican, by no means fought at 168, he’s not well-known, and he’s previous. Crawford has three strikes in opposition to him for use as an opponent for Canelo.
“I don’t know what’s going to happen, but William Scull is [a] nobody in the sport of boxing,” mentioned Juan Manuel Marquez to ESNEWS when requested his view of Canelo Alvarez combating William Scull subsequent on Could third. ”
“Yeah, he’s an IBF champion. Are you aware William Scull? I don’t know William Scull.
“It’ll be a good fight, but the difference is two divisions [apart] in the weight class, and I think it’s a dangerous fight for Terence Crawford,” mentioned Marquez on what he thinks about Canelo defending in opposition to 154-pounder Terence Crawford on September thirteenth. “Perhaps, sure. Perhaps Canelo wins by knockout.
“I don’t like to see those types of fights. A YouTuber against a real boxer, I don’t like it,” mentioned Marquez about his ideas on Canelo’s scrapped plans to battle Jake Paul on Could third. “I think Jake Paul just wants to fight Canelo for money, and I don’t like it.”
