Canelo vs. Scull: Canelo’s journey with the WBC

Mexican Saúl ‘Canelo’ Álvarez will fight Cuban William Scull at the ANB Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Saturday, May 3.
The fight card will be streamed live on http://dazn.com/wbc

The super middleweight champion and Pride of Mexico Saúl “Canelo” Álvarez, is undoubtedly one of the greatests representatives of world boxing, as he has has accomplished brilliant and historic achievements. That’s propelled and catapulted him to the pinnacle as the Superstar. One of the very greatest pound for pound.

“Canelo’s” career has been strongly linked to the WBC, representing the Green and Gold for many years with outstanding results in his professional career. We recall some important points and highlights:

-In 2008 he was chosen by the WBC to enter the “Ring Telmex” program.

-In 2009 he won the NABF championship as well as the WBC youth championship.

-In 2010 he won the WBC Silver title by defeating the Argentine Luciano Cuello.

-He conquered the vacant WBC super welterweight championship defeating Matthew Hatton in 2011, defending it 7 times.

-He conquered the middleweight title and won the WBC Diamond belt, by defeating Puerto Rican legend Miguel Cotto in 2015.

-He participated in the first “Fight for Peace” event of the Pope Francis Foundation “Scholas Occurrentes” and the “BoxVal” program in 2016 defeating Amir Khan.

-He regained the WBC middleweight championship by defeating Gennady Golovkin on September 15, 2018.

-He won the WBC super middleweight title by defeating Britain’s Callum Smith, successfully defending it 3 times.

– He made 3 defenses of his Green and Gold Title also winning the WBO, IBF and WBA titles. He defeated Turkish Avni Yildirim, British Billy Joe Saunders and American Caleb Plant

– He defeated Kazakh Gennadiy Golovkin in the closing of a great trilogy.

On May 6th, 2023, Canelo successfully defended his Undisputed World Super Middleweight Championship, defeating tough British John “The Gorilla” Ryder by unanimous decision, at the Akron Stadium in Jalisco, Mexico. Then on September, He defeated Jermell Charlo by decision in Las Vegas, in an excellent fight.

On May 2024, Canelo defeated Jaime Munguía in a great performance. Later, in September, he defeated Edgar Berlanga in a great performance in Las Vegas.