Canelo Alvarez vs. William Scull will go down as the worst title fight of Alvarez’s career, and possibly one of the worst in modern boxing.
According to Compubox, Alvarez vs. Scull threw the least number of punches in a 12 round fight that the statistics company has ever recorded in their 40 year history. Many are blaming Scull for the snoozefest of a fight, but the Cuban boxer has no regrets for the way he fought.
In fact, he felt like he was robbed of the victory when judges handed the fight via 115-113, 116-112 and 119-109 scores.
“Yes, I totally felt like I had won,” Scull told FightHubTV in Spanish. “After the fifth round, I was already winning the fight. That’s why I kept up the work I was doing, because honestly, if he’s not hitting me, why would I risk it?”
“Yes, the comments were that I was moving and throwing a few counters, but my counters were effective,” he added. “Canelo deserves my respect, but he threw less than me, and was less effective than me.”
As for his gameplan?
“The Cuban principle is like that: hit and don’t let them hit you. Everyone knows our school of thought.”
Scull argued that he was successful because he never took a hard shot from Canelo.
“I didn’t feel the power, which is why I made the training plan I did,” he said. “There was never any need to make any changes because I was very comfortable doing my job.”
Compubox stats had Canelo landing 48 power punches to Scull’s 28. In total the two landed just 111 punches off 445 thrown. What a stinker.
5/3 DAZN- Alvarez W 12 Scull
Canelo gets the win, but it wasn’t pretty,as they combined to throw 445 punches- the FEWEST in a 12-round fight in CompuBox history. Canelo landed 5 of 13 punches per round to 5 of 24 for Scull. Canelo had a 48-28 edge in power landed, landing 54%. pic.twitter.com/AAqHx383ni— CompuBox (@CompuBox) May 4, 2025
Here’s hoping Canelo vs. Crawford in September will be more compelling.
