Turki Alalshikh intends to put together another stacked Riyadh Season card in February.<\/p>\n
The Ring\u2019s Mike Coppinger reported on the newest episode of \u201cInside The Ring\u201d on DAZN on Monday that Alalshikh also would like to bring back David Benavidez<\/a> and Devin Haney<\/a> to co-headline that event if they win their upcoming bouts November 22 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n Benavidez and Haney would have to agree to quick turnarounds as well if they were to win and fight again approximately three months later. <\/p>\n Benavidez (30-0, 24 KOs) will defend his WBC light heavyweight title against Anthony Yarde (27-3, 24 KOs)<\/a> in the main event of \u201cThe Ring IV\u201d card DAZN will stream November 22. Haney<\/a> (32-0, 15 KOs, 1 NC) will challenge WBO welterweight champ Brian Norman (28-0, 22 KOs, 1 NC) in the 12-round co-feature at ANB Arena. Bivol beat Beterbiev by majority decision to win The Ring, IBF, WBA, WBC and WBO 175-pound championships. In their first meeting, Bivol lost a majority decision October 12 in Riyadh.<\/p>\n Keith Idec is a senior writer and columnist for The Ring. He can be reached on X @idecboxing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Turki Alalshikh intends to put together another stacked Riyadh Season card in February. The Ring\u2019s Mike Coppinger reported…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,10188,10181,10187,10186,10179,4496,10182,10183,10184,10185,10180,10193,10192,10175,10173,10174,10190,10176,10172,10194,10189,79,10191,10171,10178,16,15,10177],"class_list":{"0":"post-461724","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-boxing-community","10":"tag-boxing-fights","11":"tag-boxing-history","12":"tag-boxing-interviews","13":"tag-boxing-magazine","14":"tag-boxing-news","15":"tag-boxing-photos","16":"tag-boxing-rankings","17":"tag-boxing-results","18":"tag-boxing-schedule","19":"tag-boxing-videos","20":"tag-disqualification","21":"tag-draw","22":"tag-fight","23":"tag-fighter","24":"tag-fighter-news","25":"tag-knockout","26":"tag-latest-boxing-matches","27":"tag-ring","28":"tag-ring-magazine","29":"tag-split-decision","30":"tag-sports","31":"tag-technical-knockout","32":"tag-the-ring","33":"tag-top-fighters","34":"tag-uk","35":"tag-united-kingdom","36":"tag-upcoming-boxing-matches"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115290396680614568","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Alalshikh, chairman of Saudi Arabia\u2019s General Entertainment Authority and owner of The Ring, initially thought Canelo Alvarez would headline a February card in Riyadh. Coppinger also reported during Monday\u2019s show that Alvarez needs elbow surgery<\/a>, which will indefinitely postpone his return from a unanimous-decision defeat to Terence Crawford on September 13<\/a> in Las Vegas.The rematch between light heavyweight rivals Dmitry Bivol<\/a> and Artur Beterbiev<\/a> was the main event of a loaded Riyadh Season event February 22 at ANB Arena. <\/p>\n