Despite only being involved in boxing for a few years, Turki Alalshikh along with Riyadh Season has produced some of the best fight cards the sport has ever seen.
Their most recent card was headlined by Beterbiev-Bivol, which signified the first undisputed light-heavyweight fight to take place since 2002.
The card also included a rematch between Fabio Wardley and Frazer Clarke, the ever-present Chris Eubank Jr, IBF Cruiserweight World Champion Jai Opetaia, internet sensation Ben Whittaker, and the first-ever female world title fight to take place in Saudi Arabia between Skye Nicholson and Raven Chapman.
It has become the norm to expect His Excellency to present a full card of exciting fights.
On December 21st this is no different, the night headlined by the rematch between Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk is packed with quality fights.
In a video on Twitter/ X, last week Turki Alalshikh and Eddie Hearn announced plans for a new show.
Alalshikh: “Eddie, are you ready for the card in February?”
Hearn: February 22nd, I think it’s the best card yet for Riyadh Season.”
Since then, Vergil Ortiz and Jesse ‘Bam’ Rodriguez’s trainer Robert Garcia speaking to BoxingScene has said that there are plans for his fighters to feature on this card.
WBC interim super welterweight champion Ortiz, could potentially fight the current IBF welterweight world champion, Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis.
WBC super flyweight world champion ‘Bam’ Rodriguez could fight 37-year-old former four-weight world champion, Roman ‘Chocolatito’ Gonzalez.
Ortiz captured the interim super welterweight title by defeating Serhii Bohachuk by majority decision.
The fight was seen by fans as a robbery and what made it worse was Ortiz’s refusal to offer his opponent a rematch.
Whilst ‘Boots’ is the world champion, he would most likely be seen as the B-side in a fight with Ortiz, if it were to take place.
There is potential that ‘Bam’ Rodriguez could face critisicm from some boxing fans if he were to fight ‘Chocolatito’.
This is because the man from Nicaragua at 37-years-old is nearing the end of his career and he is not what he once was, so it could be seen that 24-year-old ‘Bam’ would be using him as a stepping stone.
Turki Alalshikh and Riyadh Season are making fights happen which ordinarily would potentially have been unlikley to have been made.
Boxing fans will be excited about the possibility of these fights taking place and for the announcement of the full card.
‘Boots’ returns to the ring after defeating David Avanesyan to defend his IBF welterweight title on November 9th, in a rematch against Karen Chukhadzhian at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia.
‘Bam’ Rodriguez returns after his knockout win against Juan Francisco Estrada to defend his WBC super flyweight title against Pedro Guevara on the same card.
— TURKI ALALSHIKH (@Turki_alalshikh) October 19, 2024
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