February 28, 2025 8:30 pm ET
A “once-in-a-lifetime” boxing occasion is heading to the streets of New York – actually.
On Could 2, 2025, a reside boxing occasion titled “FATAL FURY: Metropolis of the Wolves” will remodel the enduring New York Instances Sq. right into a boxing venue. The cardboard will function three star-studded fights, offered by The Ring Journal, which introduced the cardboard in a public release Friday.
The battle card is headlined by a welterweight bout between Ryan Garcia (24-1) and Rolando Romero (16-2). Within the co-feature, Devin Haney (31-0) takes on Jose Ramirez (29-2). The cardboard’s opening bout will see Teofimo Lopez (21-1) put his WBO and The Ring junior welterweight titles on the road towards Arnold Barboza (32-0).
The occasion can be accessible to view on pay-per-view, though the printed accomplice has not but been introduced.
“For the primary time, I don’t hear it earlier than, at the very least for the final 50, 60 years, one thing occurred like this in Instances Sq.,” chairman of Saudi Arabia’s Normal Leisure Authority, Turki Alalshikh, mentioned in a video posted to social media Friday. “The primary boxing card ever, and the primary card for The Ring Journal in America, in Instances Sq.. It will likely be collaborate with SNK and the online game ‘Deadly Fury.’ It will likely be one thing superb. “… It will likely be solely, I believe, between 100 to 300, not lower than 100, no more than 300, seats within the card of Instances Sq.. It will likely be invitation for particular individuals. It will likely be one thing superb in a single evening, by no means occurred earlier than.”
Alalshikh mentioned there will even be a small live performance as part of the occasion, with the entertainers to be named later.
The distinctive venue of Instances Sq. is only one of many who Alalshikh has eyed for a boxing occasion. Alalshikh just lately mentioned he needs to host an event at Alcatraz, the federal penitentiary in San Francisco that has been closed since 1963.
“Typically I get in my thoughts, I need completely different locations to do. Typically in mountains, perhaps sometime within the pyramids in Mexico, sometime in Eiffel Tower in France, Colliseum in Italy,” Alalshikh told ESPN in a current interview.
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