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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.

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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Romero: “I will defeat S* from Ryan Garcia:” Then they can have a rematch “

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Image: Rolly Romero: 'I'll Beat the S* Out of Ryan Garcia,' Then They Can Have Their Rematch"

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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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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Low careers and narrow competition: Hidden risk of the boxing league Dana White in the UFC style

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Dana White revealed how she plans to run a up-to-date league of TKO boxing promotion, which Alalshikh started with Turki. White says he will build it from scratch using the UFC model as his success plan.

Dana intends to sign warriors to the league, and they will compete and fail, just as warriors in UFC do. He says they get rid of five different sanctioning bodies and will simply have one for their league. In boxing, it will not be impossible to control the entire sport with the league. It does not work in other companies and will not work in boxing.

Even if Dany receives all the best fighters, if they intend to compete with other great warriors, they will not last long. How can they?

Risk containing a career

Fighters excluded from this boxing league will continue to track four sanctioning bodies, fight with Dazem and will be signed with popular promoters who are now conducting sport. They will not give up the fight just because they were not chosen in the league.

Being in a league in which a handful of high -quality fighters will repeatedly face exhausting fights, will probably shorten their career. Imagine fighters such as David Benavidez and David Morrell, competing four or five times with each other in the boxing league, which follows the UFC model. How about Shakur Stevenson struggling with power, such as Gervonta four or five times. After these fights, there would not be many Shakur.

Their careers can be shortened because of the punishment they endure. Yes, this is entertainment for fans, but there will be hell for fighters who will become repetitive tough fights. Carrying bookies are much more severe than in UFC. If I were a boxer, I would not like to be in the league where I always fought the “best” every time. You can’t do it in boxing without a quick end of your career.

“People want to see great fights. Boxing has become the one in which you must be invincible so that people can care for you. It will all disappear – said Dana White The first shot of ESPNTalking about your up-to-date partnership with Turka Alalshikh in order to create a boxing league.

“There are many guys that we look at, who will be on this leaves that have many Oh. Everyone will fight with each other, and what people want to see are great fights. They want to know who is the best in the world. “

Is this “the best”?

If Dana White and Turki fighters sign this up-to-date boxing league, they will only fight with other guys in this list, as they prove that they are “The best in the world?“This is not the best. All they really do is prove that they are the best in this league with a narrow number of fighters who compete. It seems that what Turks do now works better, choosing great fighters, signing them for brief contracts and creating fascinating fights. You don’t need an isolated league to do such things.

It is like AFL, which ran separately from the NFL in 1960–1970. The only thing when the teams from two leagues played each other were Super Bowl. In the season you do not have teams from AFL teams playing NFL teams until they joined in 1970. Creating a boxing league in which fighters compete only with other warriors in this league. The idea does not work better than the current situation in sport.

“I implement elementary things, the best fight,” said White. “There are many talents that we look at now, which nobody knows about. I would like to build it from scratch, just like us from UFC. When we originally bought UFC, we had twelve contracts. You started to have everyone who matches everyone. When you get to the top five, you can’t deny who the best five guys in the world are, and then everyone is fighting to see who the world champion is. “

How can the first five in a tiny league be called the best in the world when you talk about a narrow pool of fighters? White says he started from 12 and claims that the first five was the best in the world? What is he talking about? They are only the best in this tiny company, but not in the world. Thanks to this boxing league, if they compete only with other warriors in the league, you can’t call them the best.

The way it happened in the current system were fighters from the highest ranking, mechom, golden boy and PBC often focused on establishing fighting with guys in this promotional company. It was like four or five different leagues. This up-to-date league with Dana White and Turki is simply more the same thing we have seen. The only difference is that Turki has more money to lure good fighters. If they intend to only compete with a narrow number of guys in this league, it will not be as engaging as now.

Last updated 03/05/2025

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