Turki Talk
ON the birthday of both Muhammad Ali and Oleksandr Usyk, it was one of the burgeoning icons of this generation that sat down and gave his first real interview since basically turning the entire sport on its head.
Turki Alalshikh, the chairman of the Saudi Arabia General Entertainment Authority and the man behind the Kingdom’s seismic arrival on the scene, spoke for nearly 20 minutes to Ade Oladipo on DAZN’s Youtube channel. Some get.
For much of 2023, we have been told by others about how much he likes boxing, that he is just a huge fan like the rest of us, but this was the first time Al-Alshikh has personally explained what he and Saudi Arabia are up to. “If the question is, why [in] Saudi Arabia?”
He said of boxing’s biggest fights. “Then why not Saudi Arabia?” He also
