Riyadh Season Delivers: Stacked Card for just $25.99

His Honor Turki Alalshikh reports that the pay-per-view price for the February 22nd Riyadh Season Card is $19.99 in the UK and $25.99 in the US and “the rest of the world.” This is an outstanding prize for the six fights announced on the card today

Bargain PPV

All five undercard fights can call their cards, and surprisingly, these matches are listed below. The main event for the February 22 card is the rematch between undisputed light heavyweight champion Artur Beterbiev and former WBA champion Dmitry Bivol. The combination of PPV price and the big fights on the card make it attractive. I don’t remember seeing such a map in many years.

There was some grumbling from fans and Bivol’s promoter, Eddie Hearn, about the outcome of the first fight with Beterbiev on October 12th. So, there will be a rematch to settle it.

After the seventh round, Bivol looked like he didn’t want to be there and was in survival mode. He deserved the loss 100%, and Beterbiev will make sure that Bivol’s fans have nothing to worry about afterwards.

The undercard has two standout fights that fans will be discussing during the build-up. They are as follows:

• Shakur Stevenson vs. Floyd Schofield
• Vergil Ortiz Jr. vs. Israel Madrimov

The Ortiz Jr.-Madrimov fight is tentative because it requires Madrimov to get through his December 21st contest against Serghii Bohachuk without suffering a loss or injury. Promoter Tom Loeffler sees it as “bad karma” to have Madrimov fight Vergil Ortiz Jr. on February 22. when he has a tough fight against Bohachuk this month.

“Bad Karma for posting this. Bohachuk has over 90% KO ratio, and has knocked Vergil down twice. He’s going for the KO against Madrimov on December 21, so there’s no more funny business with the judges,” said Tom Loeffler. X.

We will make the PPV price no more than 19.99 GBP in the UK, and no more than 25.99 USD in the US and the rest of the world (We want the fans to be happy and enjoy… Let’s start boxing again ) pic.twitter.com/Y2SqdJqENb

— TURKI ALALSHIKH (@Turki_alalshikh) December 3, 2024

No Gimmes

“He has deep pockets, and they pay the fighters a lot of money,” said commentator Ade Aladipo. talkSport Boxing about His Excellency Turki Alalshikh who compiled the February 22nd card.

“In the past, fighters have said, ‘I’m not doing that fight because I’m not getting paid enough.’ They almost can’t turn down these fights now. This is much more than they are used to being paid. In addition, he has the broadcasters and promoters working closely with each other.

“It would have been almost impossible to put this map together without deep pockets. They are all big, important battles. There are no gimmes. Most of the fights on the card are 50-50.

Before Turki Alalahikh got involved in boxing, many of the fight cards of the last five years were terrible and getting worse. For fans who remembered the great cards in the 1980s and 1990s, they became disillusioned with the sport.

Many fans stopped following boxing because of the lackluster events, which were loaded with mismatches purposefully put together by promoters to sell a bad product. It’s still going on, of course, but at least there’s Turki, putting together big fights.

“The first fight will probably be Zhilei Zhang against Agit Kabayel. You’re talking two top-six heavyweights walking first. It’s usually a six-rounder or eight-rounder,” Ade said of the February 22 card.

“No, it has to be Beterbiev against Bivol. You are talking about two of the best light heavyweights of all time. The first fight was so good. All the belts, every single belt in the division,” Ade said when asked if the Daniel Dubois vs. Joseph Parker fight should headline the February 22nd card.

“Dubois’ rise in the past year has been huge. He would be a good co-main event, but even he knows the two best in the world have to go first. Beterbiev is pound-for-pound #5. Buffalo #6. These are two of the best. They have to go first,” Ade said.