{"id":96683,"date":"2025-05-13T00:34:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T00:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/96683\/"},"modified":"2025-05-13T00:34:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T00:34:09","slug":"new-tko-boxing-league-reveals-schedule-plans-plus-separate-superfights-starting-with-canelo-alvarez-vs-terence-crawford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/96683\/","title":{"rendered":"New TKO boxing league reveals schedule plans plus separate \u2018superfights\u2019 starting with Canelo Alvarez vs. Terence Crawford"},"content":{"rendered":"

The new boxing promotion, headed up by the UFC\u2019s owners at TKO Group Holdings, has ambitious plans for the future with the first card set to launch in September when Canelo Alvarez<\/a> takes on Terence Crawford<\/a> in a superfight taking place in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

UFC CEO Dana White<\/a> has already been announced as the promoter for the event with WWE president Nick Khan also involved in the newly formed boxing league, which is financially backed by Saudi Arabia and Turki Alalshikh, the chairman of the General Entertainment Authority in the country. While some details have been revealed since the boxing promotion was first announced, the new league has ambitious plans when it comes to the full schedule that kicks off with the card on Sept. 12.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would just tell you that we\u2019re expecting with the boxing organization that we\u2019re putting on an average of call it 12 fights a year, 12 cards a year for each of the next five years,\u201d TKO president and chief operating officer Mark Shapiro said during a quarterly financial call with investors. \u201cStill putting that plan together and obviously working hand in hand with our friends from Saudi.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to the 12 cards on average per year, the new Saudi-backed boxing league is also plotting several \u201csuperfight\u201d events similar to the one with Canelo vs. Crawford in September.<\/p>\n

\u201cIrrespective of those, we will look to do anywhere from one to four sort of superfights per year, we\u2019ll see how that plays out,\u201d Shapiro said. \u201cBut obviously we would term the Canelo\/Crawford September matchup as one of those. And then on that undercard, we would have a number of those undercard fights that would likely air on the television partner\/media partner we would have for our newly formed boxing organizations.\u201d<\/p>\n

As of now, the new TKO boxing league doesn\u2019t have a broadcast partner but those details will likely get sorted out ahead of the actual launch in September.<\/p>\n

While TKO is running the show, Shapiro was quick to point out again that the company is actually assuming no financial liability for the boxing promotion with Saudi Arabia providing all of the funding.<\/p>\n

Add to that, the 12 individual fight cards are also going to be kept separate from the \u201csuperfights\u201d that could potentially involve some of the biggest names in the sport.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose are two separate businesses,\u201d Shapiro revealed. \u201cThe Saudis are funding what would be these superfight cards. We\u2019ll work with them on media rights deals and take a commission. We\u2019ll work with them obviously on global partnerships. We\u2019ll work with them on ticketing. We\u2019ll handle the production.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll look to potentially promote all of them with Dana White and Nick Khan driving much of that but then separately, we\u2019ll have our boxing organization, our [promotion] with them where we\u2019re going out and doing as I mentioned 12 cards a year on average and getting a separate media rights fee, selling global partnerships to those cards and of course promoting and producing those cards on whatever media platform we choose to tie with. That\u2019s the state of boxing.\u201d <\/p>\n

Thus far, the new promotion has only been referenced as TKO Boxing but Shapiro promises that\u2019s not actually going to be the name used once the promotion officially launches later this year. He didn\u2019t provide any insight on the new name but promised that\u2019s already in the works.<\/p>\n

\u201cI should mention it\u2019s not going to be called TKO boxing,\u201d Shapiro said. \u201cThat seems like the soup of the day. We\u2019ll be unveiling our name for our business fairly soon here. But it will not be TKO boxing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The new boxing promotion, headed up by the UFC\u2019s owners at TKO Group Holdings, has ambitious plans for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[39866,1935,4496,33857,39869,10516,163,1501,6695,5705,9641,30971,699,30471,9465,45154,79,9982,45155,45156,4776,5706,12137,16,15,6691,6095],"class_list":{"0":"post-96683","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-alvarez","9":"tag-boxing","10":"tag-boxing-news","11":"tag-canelo","12":"tag-crawford","13":"tag-fighting","14":"tag-front-page","15":"tag-latest-news","16":"tag-league","17":"tag-mma","18":"tag-new","19":"tag-plans","20":"tag-plus","21":"tag-reveals","22":"tag-schedule","23":"tag-separate","24":"tag-sports","25":"tag-starting","26":"tag-superfights","27":"tag-terence","28":"tag-tko","29":"tag-ufc","30":"tag-ufc-news","31":"tag-uk","32":"tag-united-kingdom","33":"tag-vs","34":"tag-with"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114497721028867794","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96683","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=96683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}