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":169272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6842,6836,6841,6840,6834,6102,6837,6838,6839,6835,6588,6847,6846,6830,6828,6829,6844,6831,6827,6848,6843,101,6845,6826,6833,56,54,55,6832],"class_list":["post-169271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-community","tag-boxing-fights","tag-boxing-history","tag-boxing-interviews","tag-boxing-magazine","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxing-photos","tag-boxing-rankings","tag-boxing-schedule","tag-boxing-videos","tag-boxing-results","tag-disqualification","tag-draw","tag-fight","tag-fighter","tag-fighter-news","tag-knockout","tag-latest-boxing-matches","tag-ring","tag-ring-magazine","tag-split-decision","tag-sports","tag-technical-knockout","tag-the-ring","tag-top-fighters","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-upcoming-boxing-matches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169271"}],"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