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Canelo Alvarez vs. Terence Crawford has a new date and will soon have a new location announced as well.

Boxing promoter Turki Alalshikh revealed through The Ring magazine that the highly anticipated super middleweight title fight between Canelo and Crawford will no longer take place at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas on Sept. 12 as originally announced. Instead, the event is now scheduled for Sept. 13 with a location to be determined.

Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and New York are the cities now in the running to host the event, which is part of Alalshikh’s Riyadh Season pay-per-view series. This will also be the inaugural event for Dana White’s TKO Boxing promotion.

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Belal Muhammad has faced growing criticism about the game plan and strategy he used in a loss to Jack Della Maddalena at UFC 315 that cost him the welterweight title.

In the days and weeks leading up to the event, Muhammad repeatedly stated he wanted to show off his “Canelo hands” and prove his boxing could go up against anybody — including a known knockout artist like Della Maddalena. During his rise up the ranks, Muhammad displayed incredible wrestling and constant pressure that allowed him to largely maul his competition. Despite going for nine takedowns during the fight, he’s being slammed for the way he approached the matchup against the Australian slugger.

UFC legend Matt Brown vehemently disagrees with the notion that Muhammad’s loss really comes down to poor game planning because that totally negates what Della Maddalena did to shut him down.

“It’s almost an irrelevant question because it didn’t matter what his game plan was,” Brown explained on the latest episode of The Fighter vs. The Writer. “Jack had an answer for everything that he did.

“Yeah, if you’re on Belal’s camp, you’re probably looking back saying OK, we probably could have game planned differently but it’s hard to imagine that would have changed anything. When you go back to the drawing board for Belal, you’ve got a lot of drawing to do when you’re looking at a Jack Della Maddalena fight.”

Because the fight largely played out on the feet, Della Maddalena was able to win many of the biggest exchanges with his superior boxing, length and power. While Muh

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

UFC CEO Dana White 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.

“I would just tell you that we’re expecting with the boxing organization that we’re putting on an average of call it 12 fights a year, 12 cards a year for each of the next five years,” TKO president and chief operating officer Mark Shapiro said during a quarterly financial cal

William Scull has turned some heads, not just with the lack of action in his undisputed super middleweight title fight with Canelo Alvarez, but with his post-fight comments.

Scull was the IBF titleholder going into his clash with Alvarez this past Saturday. Many didn’t know what to expect from the matchup other than a likely win for Alvarez, but fans were left feeling their low expectations weren’t even met. Alvarez vs. Scull lacked significant action for 12 rounds, and Alvarez won the fight via unanimous decision.

While the bout itself left a lot to be desired, it was Scull’s comments after the fight that left fans scratching their heads.

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William Scull Upsets Fans

After the heavily cri

Canelo Álvarez faced Cuba’s William Scull in the headlining match of a Riyadh Season boxing card — Fatal Fury: City of Wolves — on May 3, 2025. The boxing great secured another win to continue his dominance inside the ring. The card featured several other intriguing fights as well.

The biggest talking point to emerge from the event was not the fights overall or even the headlining match itself, but rather the fact that Álvarez’s win set up his long-awaited super-fight against fellow boxing great Terence “Bud” Crawford. America’s Crawford faced off with the Mexican pugilist inside the ring after the main event. Álvarez and Crawford are now booked to clash on Sept. 12, 2025.

Canelo Álvarez vs. William Scull Result

Canelo Álvarez entered the event as the WBA (Super), WBC, WBO, and Ring Magazine super middleweight kingpin. Meanwhile, William Scull headed into it as the IBF super middleweight titleholder. All aforementioned belts were at stake in the fight, which determined the new undisputed super middleweight champion.

In its aftermath, the match was widely criticized due to its supposed lack of action. Neither Álvarez nor Scull was able to get off any

Moments after Canelo Álvarez fended off William Scull to become the undisputed super middleweight champion again, he was facing off against Terence Crawford in the same ring in Riyadh to promote a showdown in September.

Álvarez became an undisputed champion in the division for the second time when the judges scored his ho-hum bout early Sunday Saudi local time against Scull 115-113, 116-112, 119-109. The 34-year-old Mexican boxer improved to 63-2-2, with 39 knockouts, and is unbeaten in 10 fights in the super middleweight category.

The decision had barely been announced before Turki al-Sheikh, head of the General Entertainment Authority of Saudi Arabia, stepped into the ring and ordered it cleared out so that he could bring four-division champion Crawford out of the crowd to face Álvarez, who was wearing one belt around his waist, another over his shoulder and holding one in each arm.

“Now we want to do the face off for the fight of the century,” Alalshikh told the crowd, “between the two great fighters in our generation.”

Álvarez is a four-weight world champion and entered the fight against Scull with the WBA, W