Juan Manuel Marquez gave fellow Mexican legend Canelo Alvarez each barrels after asserting a combat on Could 3.
Canelo confirmed he would face William Scull for the IBF tremendous middleweight title in a bid to turn out to be a two-time undisputed champion on the weight. Nonetheless, Marquez was lower than impressed when chatting with Elie Seckbach concerning the Riyadh Season occasion in an interview.
“I don’t know what’s going to occur, however William Scull is a no one,” Marquez advised ES Information. “He’s no one within the sport of boxing. He’s the IBF champion, however have you learnt William Scull? I don’t know William Scull.”
Marquez didn’t maintain again on Canelo vs Scull, however that’s not the top of the story. Months in the past, the Manny Pacquiao conqueror interviewed Scull for ProBox TV earlier than the Cuban grew to become the titleholder.
Within the recirculated clip, Marquez tells Scull that Canelo vacated the IBF belt moderately than face him as a result of he’s ‘harmful’ and a risk to his report. Since then, social media has relentlessly identified Marquez’s differing views within the two movies.
Nonetheless, Canelo is dealing with Scull, and sure, his opponent is essentially unknown exterior his homeland. Canelo initially deliberate to stage the combat in Las Vegas however was saved from a possible lack of curiosity by Saudi Arabian moneyman Turki Alalshikh.
Canelo even had Scull on the undercard of his battle with Jaime Mungiua in Could 2024 as the previous pound-for-pound king prepped for a possible encounter down the road. However after Munguia and Edgar Berlanga did not set the world alight in opposition to Canelo and followers continued to clamor for the David Benavidez grudge match, Scull would have gone down like a lead balloon on the well-known strip.
That’s now not the case, because of Alalshikh stumping up the cash to take it to the Riyadh Season schedule. Canelo will now try and re-unify the titles he as soon as held earlier than defending them in opposition to Terence Crawford in September.
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