17 years after buying The Ring, Oscar De La Hoya has seemingly offered “The Bible of Boxing” to Turki Alalshikh, confirming a September report from Julius Julianis.
This marks the Saudi royal’s second main grasp at management of boxing’s unofficial rating techniques, having beforehand partnered with Combat Fax and the WBA earlier this 12 months in a transfer that acquired the sanctioning physique booted from BoxRec. As Combat Fax at the moment has Marco Huck tied with Oleksandr Usyk for no. 1 at heavyweight, Sergey Kovalev no. 2 at cruiserweight, and Sergio Martinez no. 1 at middleweight, this strikes me because the extra noteworthy acquisition.
It’s additionally the second upheaval of a noteworthy boxing information web site this 12 months after ProBox bought BoxingScene, which has (in my view) led to a pointy decline in breaking information in favor of vapid thinkpieces from the likes of Paulie Malignaggi and Chris Algieri.
The Ring’s belts and rankings carry important weight on this sport and needs to be below higher scrutiny going ahead; there have been some notable instances of possession overruling workers in newsrooms of late and I frankly don’t belief Alalshikh to maintain his private goals from influencing the publication’s content material.
