Turki Alalshikh, the chairman of Saudi Arabia's General Entertainment Authority, tells ESPN he has grand plans for boxing superstars Canelo Alvarez, Terence Crawford and Tyson Fury.
Canelo Alvarez drops Jaime Munguia in Round 4 of their main event bout in Las Vegas en route to a unanimous decision victory.
"We carefully planned our activities for the last six months," Alalshikh said."We are spending the money to our season and at the same time to test the market and know all the secrets about the market. And now we have a lot of information and we have our own studies and we think from what we tested in the last six months, there is big opportunity in boxing. ... But you must improve the market. You must fix all the problems.
"History will remember this fight," Alalshikh said, comparing the event to the 1974 Rumble in the Jungle between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman.were set to battle for the undisputed light heavyweight championship. However, Beterbiev suffered a ruptured meniscus that required surgery, which postponed the fight Friday. Alalshikh plans to reschedule the bout later this year.
Afterward, Alalshikh will travel to London's Wembley Stadium for an event headlined by Joshua on Sept. 20 or 21. The British star is expected to face the Hrgovic-Dubois winner for the vacant IBF title, another commercial for Riyadh Season with the Kingdom's first boxing event in the U.K. Alalshikh revealed that the seventh and final card of the year will take place in December and will pit five American fighters against five U.K. fighters.
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