With Saudi cash man Turki Alalshikh, it’s very a lot a case of 1 large card of boxing after the opposite, of 1 stacked card after which on to the subsequent installment. We haven’t even seen the end result of tomorrow’s large card, topped, after all, by the light-heavyweight unification conflict between Artur Beterbiev and Dmitry Bivol, or the end result of the December 21 rematch between Oleksandr Usyk and Tyson Fury. However Alalshikh is already plotting his subsequent mega-card.
And Turki says he has a “shock” for us.
Talking with Sky Sports activities out in Riyadh, Alalshikh stated there are plans underway for a second Matchroom Vs. Queensbury occasion, a second ‘5 Vs. 5’. And it’s been hinted that the massive headline battle right here could possibly be the rematch between Daniel Dubois (Queensbury) and the person he knocked out within the fifth spherical final month, Anthony Joshua (Matchroom).
Right here’s what Alalshikh needed to say.
“See in February once more Queensbury towards Matchroom, 5 vs 5, we’ll end it possibly this week with a giant shock after which let’s see the consequence about this battle, the results of the massive battle December twenty first, Usyk versus Tyson,” Turki stated. “Joshua, Dubois, Tyson, Usyk, everybody, everybody on the road. That is what we would like. We wish the massive fights and to see who’s actually the perfect fighters in every division.”
When you have got as deep a pair of pockets as Alalshikh has, there’s nearly no restrict to the type of mega-card or playing cards you possibly can afford to placed on. And we followers have, and are, the fortunate ones, as a lot because the fighters themselves are benefiting from being paid large purses for the type of fights they themselves wish to interact in.
It’s fairly mind-boggling to assume, to marvel, which fights we might see within the deliberate February card. The primary ‘5 Vs. 5,’ gained, after all, by Warren, this by a shutout, was nice, and a second slice shall be most welcome. Dubois-Joshua II might nicely be the headline act, however what in regards to the different 4 fights? And what would be the large “shock” Alalshikh has teased us with (except the heavyweight rematch for the IBF belt is, in truth, the shock……)
Turki talked about Usyk and Fury, together with Dubois and Joshua, and that’s simply the heavyweights. What different nice match-ups has Alalshikh in thoughts proper now? And who wins the rematch right here, Warren or Hearn
