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His Excellency Turki Alalshikh Wants Riyadh Season Card In Africa, Headlined By Deontay Wilder vs Francis Ngannou 6u621s
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His Excellency Turki Alalshikh has expressed his intent to stage a huge Riyadh Season Card in Africa in 2025 or 2026. The Saudi Arabian boxing chief has also added he would like to see Deontay Wilder vs Francis Ngannou headline one of his future Africa cards.
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His Excellency Turki Alalshikh is a man who has transformed the sport of boxing in the past year to 18 months. The Saudi Arabian boxing chief has regularly provided fans will some of the best cards and biggest fights the sport has seen in decades.
Whether is be the undisputed heavyweight fight between Daniel Dubois or countless others, His Excellency Turki Alalshikh has been the man behind it.
Not only that, but Turki Alalshikh also got rival promoters such as boxing as a worldwide sport.
His Excellency has already announced a stellar card for February 22nd headlined by the Beterbiev vs Bivol rematch, with six other world class fights on the undercard. The amazing thing for boxing fans is that he isn’t showing any signs of stopping either.
In a recent interview with DAZN, Turki Alalshikh expressed his desire to bring one of his colossal Riyadh Season cards to Africa in the coming years. Alalshikh has revealed that he plans on taking a huge Riyadh Season Card to the continent of Africa in either 2025 or 2026.
This would be quite the statement from the Saudi Arabian, following in the footsteps of the likes of Muhammad Ali vs George Foreman. The ‘Rumble In The Jungle’ of course took place in Kinshasa, Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo), and His Excellency is looking to pull off something similar in the coming years.
His Excellency Turki Alalshikh has stated that he intends to stage a Riyadh Season Card in Africa in 2025 or 2026. He added that he could consider making Deontay Wilder vs Francis Ngannou in future. [@DAZNBoxing]
— Michael Benson (@MichaelBensonn) December 4, 2024
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With talk of a possible Riyadh Season Card in Africa in the next year or two, boxing fans are of course already speculating who could feature on such a card.
Some fans have expressed their desire to see a potential Africa card feature various different fighters with African roots, such as Martin Bakole and Anthony Joshua as well as countless others.
This may well happen of course, but His Excellency Turki Alalshikh did mention a possible Deontay Wilder vs Francis Ngannou fight for Africa in 2025 or 2026. Alalshikh evidently loves the heavyweights, and a potential Wilder vs Ngannou fight would be quite the spectacle in Africa.
Whether or not this happens remains to be seen, with Wilder having lost his last two fights back-to-back to Joseph Parker and Zhilei Zhang. Not to mention the fact Anthony Joshua in his only two boxing fights.
Time will tell what happens regarding this potential Riyadh Season Card in Africa, put on by His Excellency Turki Alalshikh. It is one boxing fans would certainly get behind and crave to see in the near future.
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