Comments Thread For: British heavyweight title heads to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia - again

[DClefthook]

That's what they want. They have Riyahd Shopping Center and Kindom Arena next to each other. He is "Promoting" Riyahd Season in the platform. He wants the world to have it's eyes on their location. It seems they are trying to make it a tourist location. Vegas in the middle of the desert with exseive heat. October to May the weather is nice in Riyahd.

https://riyadhseason.com/en-US

Sorry but most Americans would rather take the short drive or flight to our desert. Not to many want to take a 23 hr flight to a desert where if I get to drunk and curse in public I could get beheaded. No thanks I'll pass!!

[DClefthook]

Not really. Golden Boy did it with Canelo and Matchroom did it with Canelo.
Spence is done. Tank can't sell without Ryan.

GBP did it successfully with Canelo as did PBC. Matchroom did not. They lost tens of millions on each of his fights when they were doing his shows non-PPV. By the time they decided to do PPV with Canelo it was to late because they sub base in America was almost non existent. Spence is almost done. But Tank can definitely sell without Ryan but Ryan cannot sell without Tank. That's what the kids call BIG FACTS!!

[TMLT87]

I cant imagine how dumb and impressionable you'd need to be to somehow suddenly like Saudi Arabia and want to go there because of a few sporting events. If anything i'd expect it to make people resent the Saudis more for stealing a bunch of stuff that they have zero cultural connection to.

[Oldskoolg]

Not really. Golden Boy did it with Canelo and Matchroom did it with Canelo.
Spence is done. Tank can't sell without Ryan.

You post doesn’t make sense. Canelo isn’t with those others, he’s with pbc. And Canelo isn’t pulling the numbers davis is. Canelo is big but not the biggest. And the whole “black Americans can’t sell without Latinos” is what it is, identity politics played by the alt right

[tophat1]

First fight was a classic, can see why they would want it on the saudi card and why the fighters would want it there but it seems wasted abit, would prefer it in the uk where the crowd would get into it.

[boxingitis]

You post doesn’t make sense. Canelo isn’t with those others, he’s with pbc. And Canelo isn’t pulling the numbers davis is. Canelo is big but not the biggest. And the whole “black Americans can’t sell without Latinos” is what it is, identity politics played by the alt right

What numbers is Davis pulling? He had to use the Mexican monster Benavidez to help him with his PPV. It's not Al Haymon filling Arenas is CANELO.

[Willow The Wisp]

As a red blooded American, spoiled for decades by a heavyweight division comprised of Americans from every region and background, peppered with an occasional Chuvalo, Bonavena, Bugner or Coetzee; I am downright envious of the flood of good big men comming out of the mother county this century. Lennox Lewis, Tyson Fury, Anthony Joshua, Frank Bruno, Daniel Dubois, Dillian Whyte, Joe Joyce, David Haye, Derrick Chisora, Fabio Wardley, Hughie Fury, Frazer Clarke, David Price, Herbie Hide, Danny Williams, Gary Mason, Audley Harrison, Sam Sixton(sp), Martin Rogan, Moses Itauma, Nathan Gorman, Matt Skelton, etc.
And they just keep coming.

I wish more big, athletic Americans would forgo their trade apprenticeship and give superstardome a shot!
At the moment, aside from Richard Torrez Jr and Sonny Conto, we've got Nothing!!!!

Gotta give it up for the British.

[boxingitis]

Sorry but most Americans would rather take the short drive or flight to our desert. Not to many want to take a 23 hr flight to a desert where if I get to drunk and curse in public I could get beheaded. No thanks I'll pass!!

Turki is not only attrating Amaricans, he is attracting the whole world who enjoy boxing. British, Australian, Japan, and American.

[boxingitis]

GBP did it successfully with Canelo as did PBC. Matchroom did not. They lost tens of millions on each of his fights when they were doing his shows non-PPV. By the time they decided to do PPV with Canelo it was to late because they sub base in America was almost non existent. Spence is almost done. But Tank can definitely sell without Ryan but Ryan cannot sell without Tank. That's what the kids call BIG FACTS!!

Tank can't sell for sh_t. He needed another PPV guy to help him out with his PPV, the MEXICAN monster David Benavidez, FACTS.

[Willow The Wisp]

Turki is not only attrating Amaricans, he is attracting the whole world who enjoy boxing. British, Australian, Japan, and American.

Right!
Lets not overlook the very recent, extensive Harris Poll (the most prestigious polling company in the world), which has informed us that boxing now ranks as the fourth most-popular sport in the United States, behind only football, baseball, and basketball. And ahead of MMA. Ahead of ice hockey. Ahead of soccer. Ahead of tennis. Ahead of golf. That's the last word when it comes to how well boxing is doing in the United States.

The international poll shows boxing in a similar position, surrounded by a different set of competing sports; showing very clearly why the Saudis want in.
These are all good things, for the boxing community.

Made still more amazing that boxing thrives, though it has NO central governing and marketing authority like FIFA, NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB, UFC, World Rugby, ATP, USGA/PGA, ICC, etc.
The whole world knows boxing. We can only imagine the untapped potential of its global market were it to ever be marketed like team sports as a traditional product, instead of by cut throat rival promotional companies.
It is only boxing's 'purity of rules', ascetic appeal and peerless history that makes it important, and NOT (Ha!) It's brilliant marketing structure.

The participation of Abdulaziz bin Turki Al Saud and the House of Saud are welcome as champions of the ancient sport - Make no mistake.