Overview

• Alvarez will still defend his WBA, WBC, and WBO titles against Berlanga on September 14.
• The IBF stripped Alvarez due to an overdue mandatory defense against William Scull.
• The vacant IBF title will be contested by Scull and Shiskin in Germany this September.
• Alvarez's record stands at 61-2-2 with 39 knockouts, and he has won four straight fights.
• This is the second recent high-profile IBF title stripping, following Oleksandr Usyk's case in May.