Turki Alalshikh and the president of the WBC, Mauricio Sulaiman, are planning a major revolution in boxing next year, and they are not stopping. Calling it “the World Cup of sport,” they unveiled the WBC Boxing Grand Prix, a tournament designed to bring an old dream into the modern ring.
“It was a dream of the 60s, a dream for a great man, he died and did not see that dream. But thank God, his son Mauricio Sulaiman is still here and we will help him make this dream come true,” he said Alalshikh, who makes the great revelation of Sulaiman.
Sulaiman took: “We created the Riyadh Season together, the WBC Grand Prix of boxing. It is basically the dream that my father had. My father died dreaming of making the World Cup of sports … I am today grateful, grateful and very excited that this dream – thanks to the great support of (Alalshikh) and the passion for boxing, a reality.”
This is not just a few fighters hitting the gloves. “There will be four weight categories,” said Sulaiman, and it will present “innovative rules … with a review system, with a new scoring system … and a 30-second warning to make it more attractive at the end of the round “. Talk about mixing tradition with some fresh seasoning.
And the scale of it is huge: “It will be 128 fighters, no more than 26 years, no more than 10-12 fights,” explained Sulaiman. They will battle it out in quarter-finals, semi-finals and a “grand final” in Riyadh.
In short, they aim to give boxing fans a huge, youthful tournament that honors the past, celebrates the present, and welcomes a new generation into the ring – all under a truly global spotlight.
