Nigel Benn says IBF super middleweight champion William Scull quit before the eighth round in a sparring session with Conor Benn. He says that Scull was getting tired by the fourth round.
Nigel says Scull (23-0, 9 KOs) was too tired to come out for the eighth due to the fast pace that Conor had put on him in rounds 4. He states that Conor upped the pace after the fourth, causing Scull to wear down rapidly until he chose not to continue sparring after round seven.
Canelo’s Easy Fight?
Now it all makes sense as to why WBA, WBC, and WBO super middleweight champion Canelo Alvarez is so eager to fight Scull. If he were fighting on the level of David Benavidez or David Morrell, this fight probably wouldn’t be happening on May 3rd. Canelo is very strategic in who he fights.
It’s believable what Benn says about William Scull, 32, quitting against Conor, because he’d looked horribly bad in his last fight against Vladimir Shishkin on October 19th in Germany, winning a controversial 12-round unanimous decision. Many boxing fans who watched the fight had Shishkin winning. I saw the fight and had Shishkin winning 10-2. It was an embarrassingly badly scored fight by the judges.
Given how poor Scull looked in his last fight, what Nigel says about him quitting makes sense. If Conor Benn had been inside the ring with Scull last October instead of Shishkin, he’d have likely stopped him.
“I’m telling you the truth. He was sparring and around five, he said, ‘Oh no, I need a minute.’ Afterward, around four or five, you can ask everybody else, he was sitting down on the ring rope because he was kind of tired,” said Nigel Benn to iFL TV, talking about William Scull sparring with his son, Conor Benn.
“It comes to around five, six, and seven, he started feeling the pace. I’m not telling you a lie, and around eight, Conor put it on him. What does he do? He stopped sparring. Conor put it on him. He couldn’t even come out for the eighth round,” said Nigel about Scull.
Last Updated on 04/23/2025
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