Boxing
TKO Group Partners with Saudis to create a up-to-date boxing promotion
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Turki Alalshikh, chairman of the general entertainment authority of Saudi Arabia, announced on Wednesday the creation of a up-to-date boxing promotion along with the TKO – a conglomerate covering UFC and WWE – with the management of the management anchored by the President of UFC Dana White and President WWE Nick Khan.
Although the name of the up-to-date undertaking was not disclosed, the promotion announced a plan to organize the first boxing event in 2026 and includes “a highly structured system of developing up-to-date talents from around the world, including athletes and academies.”
Boxers will have access to the latest UFC Institute, with locations in Las Vegas, Mexico City and Shanghai. And it will be the TKO production and media team that will cope with experience and transmission around the world.
“This breakthrough partnership between industry powers is preparing a scene for an incomparable impression for boxers and fans,” said Alalshikh. “Together, we develop the next generation of talents and provide world -class events while sport is a foundation for further interference.”
The up-to-date undertaking is the latest of the huge expenses of Saudi Arabia on global sports led by Prince Mohammed Bin Salman.
Alalshikh and Sela, a subsidiary on the Saudi Arabia Investment Fund, exhibit the best boxing events since October 2023 with Tyson Fury-Francis Ngannou. He avoided typical boxing channels with the fights of fights put on his riyads seasonal cards, which take place mainly in the capital of Saudi Arabia, but also in Los Angeles and London.
He bought a ring in November – a boxing publication that debuted in 1922 – and will organize his first card under this banner on May 2 on Times Square with the stars of Ryan Garcia, Devin Haney and Teofimo Lopez in separate duels.
Alalshikh organized several thunderous programs, including a few fury-onoxandr Usyk and Dmitriry Bivol-Artur Beterbiew Showdown with various promoters.
Today it means a up-to-date chapter in boxing history. I am excited about this wonderful partnership with those that I think is the best for this sport. Together we will raise it to up-to-date heights. ❤️🥊 pic.twitter.com/UUXHPDYFFY
– Turki Alalshikh (@Turki_ALSHIKH) March 5, 2025
And these programs will continue. But soon he will launch his boxing league with White and Khan, two titans of combat sports. Alalshikh, White and Khan were respectively 1, 2 and 3, in the September ranking of the most influential characters in the fighting game.
“I wouldn’t be where I’m without boxing today,” said White the Ring. “Sport in boxing is a place where I started. I felt it was something that could never be fixed as long as it was [Alalshikh] appeared. He did more for boxing than any promoter in the history of sport together.
“He has invested more money, more energy and more passion in this sport than literally.
Alalshikh said that he and White “have the same vision and I trust this league in a tiny time, he would crush everything.”
White has long professed his desire to enter the boxing space. Unlike the UFC, which White built in an empire worth many billion dollars, which dominates in mixed martial arts, the box is broken up with four masters in each of the 17 weight classes.
And with a broken character of sport, which includes various competing promoters, the most obvious, best duels often slip out of fans.
“Everyone knows the format: the best fight,” said White, who joined the UFC in 2001. “You introduce the road up the rankings, and when someone breaks into the top five, there is no doubt who is the best five guys in the world in every weight class and are fighting.
“And then, when someone holds this belt, you don’t need three letters in front of the belt [a reference to boxing’s four sanctioning bodies]. Whoever has this belt is the best in this weight class. “
Khan will also play a key role in the success of the league. Before joining WWE in 2020, Khan was a competitive of television at the Imaginative Artists Agency agency, where he represented many of the best broadcasting talents and negotiated Megadeals for media rights for SEC, top -class boxing and WWE.
WWE enjoyed record revenues and profitability under the leadership of Khan. He managed the Global Expansion of WWE, devouring government subsidies to live premium events, which were previously focused on the United States.
Khan also played a key role in navigation in the WWE fusion from UFC to create a TKO group, where he sits on the board. Before Khan became an agent, he managed Hall of Fame Boxers Manny Pacquiao and James Toney.
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NYC Buzz builds: Canelo-Scull Conference Tomorrow Marx starting the undisputed championship journey
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2 hours agoon
March 6, 2025
The super medium weight master, Canelo Alvarez and William Scull, will conduct a press conference tomorrow, on March 6 at Radio City Music Hall in Up-to-date York, to start promoting their unquestioned 168-Funtów 3rd Championships on May 3 in Riyadh.
Road to Crawford
SCULL is a target of Canelo to prepare it to fight Terenka Crawford on September 13. Alvarez also needs Sculla to capture the belt to keep the unquestioned championship when he faces Crawford (41-0, 31 KO).
The Thursday press conference will start at 18:00 et. It is not clear how they will sell Canelo-Scull fight with fans in American Scull, he does not speak English and is not well known, and fans who know about him feel that he is a master only by name. He is the owner of the belt and this is its only value.
Based on the ponderous card, Martin Bakole and Efe Ajagba will fight. Depending on who is on the card, this fight can easily steal the program. Canelo must enhance her game after the last two fights with Jaime Munguia and Edgar Barang. In both competitions, Canelo stared after four rounds and took many necessary penalties towards pretenders that David Benavidez or David Morrell would erase.
Retirement trip?
I hate to say it, but literally there is no demand for this fight. Turks Alalshikh should have put Canelo feet and force him to fight someone good whose fans want to see instead of this guy.
Canelo is now so prosperous and his estimated fortune in the amount of $ 250 million that there is no hunger to take risky fights that fans want to see. He is like a damaged battle a soldier who left the front line and does not want a fight. Alvarez shows signs of battle fatigue and basically decides to stay behind, cleaning rifles and cooking. That’s what is fighting.
Some people think that this is only part of the Alvarez pension route to make sure that he is still winning until he disconnects the gloves. Although the Cuban headlamp is undefeated and technically IBF champion, he looked worse than terrible, capturing his title with a poorly 12-round unanimous victory over Vladimir Shishkin on October 19 last year in Stadthalle, Falkensee, Germany.
Many fans, including this writer, believed that Shishkin deserved to win this fight. I saw Shishkin win 10-2. Scull is ponderous, feeble and has a low work rate. What he looked like in this fight, he lost to the last two opponents Canelo, Edgar Berlang and Jaime Munguia.
Having all four lanes on the line will be one of the Canelo-Crawford combat sales points. It allows Crawford to try to become a three -part unquestioned champion. Fans of free boxing do not care if there is one belt or four rates for Canelo-Crawford fight, and Hardcore fans do not consider it significant. It would be better if no lanes were on the Canelo vs. fight line. Crawford. Do this exhibition,
Canelo Alvarez and William Scull will meet tomorrow at a public press conference at 18:00 ET at Radio City Music Hall in Up-to-date York before the fight for the title in the Riyadh season on May 3 in Saudi Arabia.
Free tickets for a press conference available at the link below … pic.twitter.com/fnfpemo2LS
– Ring Magazine (@ringmagazine) March 5, 2025
Last updated 03/05/2025
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Romero: “I will defeat S* from Ryan Garcia:” Then they can have a rematch “
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4 hours agoon
March 6, 2025
Rolando “Rolly” Romero does not feel offended that Turki Alalshikh has already planned that Ryan Garcia would face Devin Haney in a rematch in October. Rolly (16-2, 13 KO) says that they can go forward and fight after he defeated “S ***” from Garcia (24-1, 20 KO) on May 2 at Times Square, Novel York.
It would be a terrible way for Ryan to enter the rematch with Haney (31-0, 15 KO). Turki did not say if the rematch could only happen if both warriors win their fights on the Fatal Fury card on May 2. It would look bad if they continued to fight if one or both lost.
Zero concern
Haney and Ryan would not look like they lost if they lose. Maybe Turki doesn’t care what it looks like. He could simply focus on entertainment because of entertainment, just like Terence Crawford, jumping two divisions to challenge Canelo Alvarez for his three or four lanes in the Super Middle Wweight. This is not really a sport. It’s entertainment.
Whatever Turki wants to do with the fight of Garcia-Haneya, he can do it. If he doesn’t care, I don’t think he complains because they receive payment. If Rolly wins, he should at least get some reward for his victory and not be caught on a card against someone.
“I don’t care. They can do it for me. I will get out of Ryan, and they can rematch,” said Rolando Romero Ring magazine About his thoughts about the rematch, which is to happen in October between Ryan Garcia and Devin Haney.
“Devin is already ** beating. So Ryan gets his own. I am not interested. I don’t care, “Rolls said, asked if he would like to fight Haney or win before Garcia.
Rolly is dishonest, saying that he will not fight Haney if he both wins and Turki offers Turki a lot of money to fight him. He does not intend to reject this to fight for less with a less popular warrior.
Last updated 03/06/2025
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“Devin Haney:” I saw Roach won, “surprised tank Davis’ No solemn escape
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6 hours agoon
March 6, 2025
Devin Haney says he was as surprised as everyone else by calling without knocking out in the ninth round of Gervont “Tank” Davis “from Lamont Roach last Saturday evening at the Barclays Center, Brooklyn, Novel York.
Haney said that he had never seen such a thing before when WBA Master Lightweight Tank Davis (30-0-1, 28 KO) knee in ninth place. Judge Steve Willis decided not to get him as a knocking out. He even allowed Tank to return to his corner, that his eyes would break away.
Well, knocking down allowed the reservoir to escape with a 12-round draw of the majority. So he stopped the WBA master, and Roach had nothing to show for his performance.
“I always knew that Lamont did not come for his location. I knew Lamont since we were children. So we went through amateurs together, “said Devin Haney Ring magazineThinking about the fight of Gervont Davis vs. Lamont Roach from the last Saturday night.
“I knew Lamont was solemn and he came there to fight, but I thought he did it much better than I thought. I thought he won the fight. Well, knocking down, which was unheard of. This is the first time I saw with my own two eyes, “said Haney about Tank Davis on the ninth knee, and the judge does not call him knocking down.
Many people think that if Lamont Roach sewed his knee and then returned to his corner, the referee would count it as knocking down, and then waved from the fight. It is not a superstar like Tank Davis, so he would not receive special treatment that the stars get.
The judge began to give the tank eight, but then stopped for some reason. It was strange. Roach believes that it should be a knockout, which would win him. Since then, he appealed to the Novel York Sports Committee, hoping that he would change the result to give him victory. It is surprising that they decide a lot of time.
Last updated 03/05/2025

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