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Turki Al-Alshikh Announces Shock Three-Fight Addition To Anthony Joshua vs. Daniel Dubois Event

Written by Tom Eaton on 17th September 2024.

Turki Alalshikh, Eddie Hearn of Matchroom and Frank Warren of Queensberry

Newfound Saudi boxing catalyst Turki Al-Alshikh has staged a plethora of high-profile cards since his plunge into the world of boxing last year and this weekend’s showdown between Anthony Joshua and Daniel Dubois is right up there amongst the most intriguing cards. Now, despite the event being just days away, a further three fights have been confirmed for the fight week.

Al-Alshikh’s first run of boxing cards took place in Riyadh, as the sports’ latest kingpin successfully attempted to promote his country to the rest of the world and display the beauty and brilliance of Saudi Arabia. However, Al-Alshikh has now begun to branch out and stage events in other countries, with the impressive Terence Crawford vs. Israil Madrimov show in Los Angeles kickstarting a new stage in the Al-Alshikh boxing takeover.

For that fight week, Al-Alshikh also introduced a new concept that saw an additional fight card take place during the build-up to the main show, as three fights took place on the iconic Santa Monica Pier in California following Madrimov and Crawford’s open workouts on the Wednesday.

Here, Marc Castro extended his undefeated streak to 13 contests with a technical-decision victory over George Acosta, whilst Rio 2016 Olympic silver medallist Shakhram Giyasov edged a split-decision to improve to 16-0 and 20-year-old Nathan Lugo scored a second consecutive knockout win.

Now it has been formally announced that the Joshua-Dubois fight event will follow a similar pattern and that three additional fights will take place once Joshua and Dubois have completed their public workouts.

“Announced: A separate three-fight Riyadh Season Card will take place after the Anthony Joshua vs. Daniel Dubois public workout tomorrow at Wembley Arena – Cameron Vuong vs. Joe Underwood Hughes, Chris Kongo vs. Jacob Quinn & Aadam Hamed vs. Santiago Garces.”

This will be Chris Kongo’s (15-2) second outing of 2024 as he aims to maintain activity after a career-best win against Florian Marku on Easter Sunday, appearing against Huddersfield’s Jacob Quinn (8-4-1) in a welterweight affair.

Meanwhile, 20-year-old Cameron Vuong (5-0) has impressed in his five professional bouts to date and he will look to build on a solid display against Jeff Ofori. He takes on Joe Underwood Hughes (8-3) in a lightweight contest that was originally scheduled to take place on the ever-changing Dalton Smith vs. Jon Fernandez bill (that is now headlined by Rhiannon Dixon vs. Terri Harper) in Sheffield on September 28th.

Finally, the son of legendary featherweight Prince Naseem Hamed, Aadam Hamed (2-0), will fight for a third time against durable 22year-old Colombian Santiago Garces (4-32-5) – who is winless in his last 34 scraps but has only been stopped on three occasions prior.

Those three fights will take place on September 18th at Wembley Arena following the consummation of the public workouts for fighters who appear on the main card, which are scheduled to begin at 5pm and will be available to watch live on the DAZN Boxing YouTube channel.

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