Turki Alalshikh and WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman are planning a serious shakeup in boxing subsequent 12 months, they usually’re not holding again. Calling it “the World Cup of the game,” they’ve unveiled the WBC Boxing Grand Prix, a event designed to deliver an previous dream into the trendy ring.
“It was a dream from the 60, dream for excellent man, he’s handed away and never seeing that dream. However thank God his son Mauricio Sulaiman remains to be right here and we’ll assist him to have this dream,” Alalshikh stated, teeing up Sulaiman’s massive reveal.
Sulaiman took over: “Now we have created collectively the Riyadh Season, WBC boxing Grand Prix. It’s mainly the dream that my father had. My father handed away dreaming of constructing the World Cup of the game…I’m in the present day grateful, grateful, and really enthused that this dream — due to the nice assist of (Alalshikh) and fervour for boxing, a actuality.”
This isn’t just some fighters knocking gloves. “It’s going to be 4 weight classes,” Sulaiman stated, and can function “revolutionary guidelines…with a evaluate system, with a brand new system of scoring…and a 30 second warning to make it extra interesting to the tip of the spherical.” Discuss mixing custom with some recent seasoning.
And the size of that is monumental: “It’s going to be 128 fighters, not more than 26-years previous, not more than 10-12 fights,” Sulaiman defined. They’ll battle via quarterfinals, semifinals, and a “grand finale” in Riyadh.
In brief, they’re aiming to present boxing followers an enormous, youthful event that honors the previous, celebrates the current, and welcomes a brand new era into the ring — all below a really world highlight.