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Turki Alalshikh reacts to Manchester United’s sacking of Erik Ten Hag

Written by Harrison Baskind on 28th October 2024.

Turki Alalshikh

We have become accustomed to Turki Alalshikh changing the sport of boxing.

However, after Manchester United’s dismissal of Erik Ten Hag today, His Excellency has decided to voice his own opinion.

Over the past few years, Alalshikh has completely changed the game when it comes to boxing.

For many years boxing fans have bemoaned the fact that big fights were hardly being made.

This was because of ‘boxing politics’, put simply – promoters refusing to work together.

Despite this, Alalshikh has focused on purely making the best possible fights.

It is just over two weeks ago since Alalshikh and Riyadh Season hosted the first ever undisputed light-heavyweight fight since Roy Jones Jr and Reggie Johnson’s in 1999.

Moreover, on December 21st, Tyson Fury will rematch Oleksandr Usyk after their epic battle in May.

Furthermore, just this week Vergil Ortiz and Jesse ‘Bam’ Rodriguez have been rumoured to be lined up against Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis and Roman ‘Chocolatito’ Gonzalez respectively, for a February 2025 Riyadh Season card.

As a result of the huge sums of money Alalshikh has provided, these fights have become possible and notably, it has become impossible for promoters to turn down the opportunity to work together.

After never even talking to one other for many years, UK promoters of Matchroom and Queensbury respectively, Eddie Hearn and Frank Warren, are now almost pally with one another.

However, Boxxers’ Ben Shalom has struggled to form the same relationships with his rivals and arguably any relationship which was there has gotten worse.

Despite all of this, today Alalshikh turned his attention away from boxing, to make his opinion known on the sacking of Manchester United’s manager Erik Ten Hag.

On his Twitter / X account, he wrote “Thank God finally.”

This suggests that he could not be happier with the removal of one of the biggest football clubs in the world’s manager.

Moving forward, it will be interesting to see his reaction to the appointment of the next Manchester United manager.

Alalshikh and Riyadh season return on November 16th when Chris Billam-Smith and Gilberto “Zurdo” Ramirez headline another stacked card.

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