Saudi Arabia transformed boxing to a different level. Big boxing matches that typically require time to arrange and are politically difficult were accelerated. Thanks to Turki Alalshikh and the leaders of the kingdom. Turki Alalshikh wanted to keep on pushing the large matches to occur. Fury versus Usyk and Joshua versus Ngannou in February and March. And there is more to come, Alalshikh referred to Beterbiev versus Bivol and recently, Haney versus Davis.
There was another buzz when Alalshikh showed no interest in carrying YouTubers into the kingdom any longer. This is sad news for the fans of Jake Paul and other YouTubers who like to box.
That is good news for fans of both Artur Beterbiev and Dmitry Bivol sure they wanted to see the fight between these two boxers and Turki Alalshikh is making it happen but it is still going to be the decision of both boxers if they like to fight at Saudi Arabia but for sure Turki Alalshikh will fund that fight that is for sure, and I saw that Turki Alalshikh wants to get Gervonta Davis to fight Devin Haney in Saudi Arabia aswell but Gervonta Davis has twitted “They made me mad. If they want me they gotta send something to my front door…like 2 Ferraris or sum! Like before I even THINK about going over there.
I don't think boxing fans will also be happy seeing Paul getting his fight in the kingdom as this is just exhibition fights. And it's obvious that Alalshikh is a big fan of boxing, the way he shoulder everything and allowing big fights going into Saudi as they have a lot of money.
For Rolly Romero, he was just gifted with that belt, and so we can say that he could be one boxer that is very lucky to get a championship when he should have lost that fight. For Ryan, it seems that GBP wanted him to be tested against former champion Jose Ramirez. But not sure if Ryan is interested though and everyone is leaving as to who Ryan wanted to fight. And so this is another tug of war between him and Oscar and it might turn out ugly again.
They don't like the Exhibition matches right now that is for sure, maybe they realized that they are just wasting money on those, but maybe it is because they are not just interested with such amateur fight events for sure they are just interested in the great boxers and considered those that are not well-known to doesn't really have some value,