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The meeting of boxing ‘disruptors’ and powerhouses Jake Paul and Turki Alalshikh
Jul 10, 2025 • 5:42 AM ET
Esther Lin / Most Valuable PromotionsJust 24 hours separate their respective New York bills this weekend, but Turki Alalshikh and Jake Paul have made time to put any perceived differences behind them.
Both have taken to social media to post an image of them together while in town and there was no sign of any previous hard feelings between the pair.
Alalshikh posted the picture of them with a boxing glove and flame emoji, while Paul was more expansive in his post.
“My/MVPs goal has always been to disrupt and grow boxing,” he wrote. “And Turki has done that in massive ways. Collaborating only helps ensure boxing, for women and men, continues to grow and regain its place as the biggest sport in the world.”
On Friday night, on Netflix, Paul promotes an all women’s show from Madison Square Garden topped by the trilogy fight between Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano and a day later, in Flushing Meadow, Alalshikh promotes the bill topped by WBC lightweight champion Shakur Stevenson against William Zepeda.
In September, Alalshikh will work with TKO to stage Canelo Alvarez-Terence Crawford, on Netflix.
Tris Dixon covered his first amateur boxing fight in 1996. The former editor of Boxing News, he has written for a number of international publications and newspapers, including GQ and Men’s Health, and is a board member for the Ringside Charitable Trust and the Ring of Brotherhood. He has been a broadcaster for TNT Sports and hosts the popular “Boxing Life Stories” podcast. Dixon is a British Boxing Hall of Famer, an International Boxing Hall of Fame elector, a BWAA award winner, and is the author of five boxing books, including “Damage: The Untold Story of Brain Trauma in Boxing” (shortlisted for the William Hill Sportsbook of the Year), “Warrior: A Champion’s Search for His Identity” (shortlisted for the Sunday Times International Sportsbook of the Year) and “The Road to Nowhere: A Journey Through Boxing’s Wastelands.” You can reach him @trisdixon on X and Instagram.
