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William Scull has been ordered to fight the winner of Diego Pacheco-Christian Mbilli, presuming they agree to fight, and then Vladimir Shishkin.
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William Scull has been ordered to fight the winner of Diego Pacheco-Christian Mbilli, presuming they agree to fight, and then Vladimir Shishkin.

Dmitry Salita is standing firmly behind his fighter, the super middleweight Vladimir Shishkin, after the 33 year old suffered a controversial unanimous decision loss to William Scull in Germany

Reports about an immediate rematch being ordered by the IBF between the newly-crowned super middleweight champion William Scull and Vladimir Shishkin are inaccurate, according to the Agon Sports promoter Ingo Volckmann

The rankings and policies of the International Boxing Federation [IBF] have come into sharp focus in recent months because of the sanctioning body enforcing nonsensical mandatories and kyboshing undisputed championships in the process.

Vladimir Shishkin's attorney has filed an appeal with the German boxing commission following his unanimous decision loss to William Scull in a super middleweight title fight on Saturday, according to the fighter's promoter, Dmitriy Salita.

William Scull, now 23-0, won the vacant IBF super middleweight title with a unanimous decision over US-based Russian Vladimir Shishkin.

DAZN has picked up the global broadcast rights for the vacant IBF super middleweight title fight between William Scull and Vladimir Shishkin, covering the US, UK, and Latin America.

It meant so much for Canelo Alvarez to reign as an undisputed super-middleweight champion. From Vladimir Shishkin’s line of thinking, that equates to there being an obvious play should he achieve his life’s dream Saturday in Germany by becoming the IBF super-middleweight champion and defeating William Scull, the fighter who in effect forced the sanctioning body earlier this year to strip Alvarez of his fourth belt.

Pick It: Bakhram Murtazaliev vs. Tim Tszyu When to Watch: Saturday, October 19 at 8 p.m. Eastern Time (1 a.m. BST) How to watch: Amazon’s Prime Video Why to Watch: The junior middleweight division is intriguing, full of talent, and continuing to take shape. The winner of this fight will be part of that picture. The loser may still have plenty of options available.

There was a time when the IBF was, fairly indisputably, the least problematic of boxing’s major alphabet groups. Granted, that statement is 99 per cent backhand, 1 per cent compliment. It’s like celebrating the best abs at the pie-eating contest or the most natural-looking Kardashian.