{"id":187117,"date":"2025-10-03T08:43:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T08:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/187117\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T08:43:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T08:43:06","slug":"riyadh-season-game-changing-deal-set-to-boost-british-boxing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/187117\/","title":{"rendered":"Riyadh Season &#8216;game-changing deal&#8217; set to boost British boxing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Riyadh Season\u2019s involvement in boxing has taken another step, with Ring Magazine, owned by Turki Alalshikh, revealing a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ringmagazine\/status\/1973858267781808379\" rel=\"nofollow\">game-changing deal<\/a>\u201d for British boxing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Riyadh Season has agreed a major sponsorship with Boxxer to support the new era of UK fights set to begin on October 25 on BBC Two, with <a href=\"https:\/\/bigfightweekend.com\/recaps\/fabio-wardley-frazer-clarke-classic-fight\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Frazer Clarke<\/a> (9-1-1, 7 KOs) vs Jeamie TKV (8-2, 5 KOs) headlining.<\/p>\n<p>BBC Two to showcase Clarke vs TKV in UK boxing return<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cr74z4jkez5o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The BBC<\/a> has recently agreed a broadcast deal with Boxxer, meaning big-time boxing will return to prime-time television and BBC iPlayer.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC will air fights from multiple cards, starting with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/c4g54ze7x8ko\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Clarke vs TKV<\/a> on October 25 from the Vaillant Arena. The British heavyweight title showdown will be shown live on BBC Two, with the undercard action on BBC iPlayer.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about the deal with the BBC:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPartnering with the BBC to deliver big-time British boxing on Saturday night TV is a historic moment,\u201d Shalom said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re proud to bring the most entertaining British fighters to the biggest possible audience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis huge platform will give our fights the exposure they deserve and helps us take the sport to huge new audiences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Riyadh Season agree major sponsorship deal with Boxxer<\/p>\n<p>The sponsorship agreement between Riyadh Season and Boxxer means that Riyadh Season will \u201csupport the new era of UK fight nights\u201d and \u201cdeliver big events to millions\u201d of British fight fans.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a world full of PPV and subscription fees, this could be a major opportunity to attract millions of viewers to the sport.<\/p>\n<p>The Boxxer-BBC partnership is a big boost for Ben Shalom and Boxxer, following the end of the company\u2019s partnership with Sky Sports.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The October 25 fight card will be the first time professional boxing has been shown on the BBC\u2019s terrestrial coverage since 2005, when Clinton Woods fought Rico Hoye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Riyadh Season\u2019s involvement in boxing has taken another step, with Ring Magazine, owned by Turki Alalshikh, revealing a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-187117","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-boxing","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}