“I think that’s something we’re going to look at next year,” said Smith to ESBR Boxing.
The inaugural event took place in Riyadh in June 2024 with Turki Alalshikh and Riyadh Season behind it. Queensberry swept all five matchups, defeating Matchroom 10-0 under the competition’s scoring system.
That card was unusually expensive to assemble. Deontay Wilder fought Zhilei Zhang, Daniel Dubois met Filip Hrgovic, Hamzah Sheeraz faced Austin Williams, Nick Ball challenged Raymond Ford, and Willy Hutchinson boxed Craig Richards. Dmitry Bivol also defended against Malik Zinad on the same show.
Several of those fighters
