Riyadh Season and Sela PresentThe Struggle of the Century 🔥Canelo vs. Crawford 🥊For the Undisputed Tremendous Middleweight Championship and The Ring
Journal Belt 👑📍 Sept 13 – Las Vegas🌍 Streaming stay on Netflix as a part of a strategic partnership with
Riyadh Season… pic.twitter.com/Z1kJrb0FcN— TURKI ALALSHIKH (@Turki_alalshikh)
June 10, 2025
UFC CEO Dana White can have a hand in selling one of many
greatest boxing matches in latest reminiscence.
It was formally introduced in a press launch on Tuesday that the
unified supermiddleweight championship conflict between Canelo Alvarez
(62-2-2, 39 KOs) and Terence Crawford (41-0, 31 KOs) will take
place on Sept. 13 at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas. Whereas the bout
itself — and its date — had already been reported, a number of different
pertinent particulars surrounding the struggle had been additionally revealed.
Turki Alalshikh, chairman of the Normal Leisure Authority
and president of the Saudi Boxing Federation, introduced that his
Riyadh Season crew will collaborate with White and leisure
conglomerate Sela to advertise the competition. In latest weeks there
had been rumors that White was now not concerned with the struggle, however
these proved to be unfounded.
In March, White
introduced the launch of TKO Boxing, a partnership between TKO
Group Holdings — the mum or dad firm of the UFC and WWE — Alalshikh
and Sela. Particulars surrounding the league have been scarce since
that announcement, however maybe this may very well be one thing of a launch
level. Nonetheless, in a submit on social media, White celebrated the reserving by
tagging the Zuffa Boxing Instagram account.
“Turki desires to make the largest fights that the followers wish to see
in boxing and that is proper up my alley,” White mentioned in a launch.
“Are you kidding me that the primary boxing struggle I’m going to get to
promote is Canelo vs. Crawford? It’s actually a as soon as in a lifetime
struggle.”
One other signifcant side of the struggle are the published plans:
Alvarez vs. Crawford will bypass the pay-per-view mannequin sometimes
favored in boxing to stream on Netflix. The favored streaming
platform notably aired the Jake Paul vs.
Mike Tyson bout final November and is reportedly one of many
contenders to land a portion of the UFC broadcast rights.
“On Sept. 13, Canelo and Crawford, two legends of boxing, will
lastly compete in opposition to one another within the struggle of the century,”
Alalshikh mentioned. “Alongside Dana White and Sela, we’ll ship
one thing really unbelievable in Las Vegas for followers all over the world
to take pleasure in via Netflix.”
Forward of their struggle, Alvarez and Crawford will participate in a
three-city media tour that features stops in Riyadh (June 20), New
York (June 22) and Las Vegas (June 27).
