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Turki Al-Alshikh Announces Addition of Three Surprise Fights to Anthony Joshua vs. Daniel Dubois Event

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Turki Al-Alshikh Announces Addition of Three Surprise Fights to Anthony Joshua vs. Daniel Dubois Event

New Saudi boxing champion Turki Al-Alshikh has staged a slew of high-profile fights since entering the boxing world last year and this weekend’s showdown between Anthony Joshua and Daniel Dubois is among the most intriguing. Now, despite the event only taking place in a matter of days, three more bouts have been confirmed for fight week.

Al-Alshikh’s first series of boxing bouts took place in Riyadh, as the latest king of the sport successfully attempted to promote his country to the rest of the world and showcase the beauty and brilliance of Saudi Arabia. However, Al-Alshikh has now begun to branch out and stage events in other countries, with the impressive Terence Crawford vs. Israil Madrimov show in Los Angeles marking the start of a new stage in Al-Alshikh’s conquest of boxing.

For this fight week, Al-Alshikh also introduced a new concept that saw an additional fight card take place during the build-up to the main show, as three fights took place on California’s iconic Santa Monica Pier following Madrimov and Crawford’s open workouts on Wednesday.

Here, Marc Castro extended his unbeaten streak to 13 fights with a technical decision victory over George Acosta, while Rio 2016 Olympic silver medallist Shakhram Giyasov won a split decision to improve to 16-0 and 20-year-old Nathan Lugo scored a second straight knockout victory.

It has now been officially announced that the Joshua-Dubois fight will follow a similar pattern and that Three additional fights will take place once Joshua and Dubois have completed their public workouts.

“Announced: Another three-fight Riyadh season card will take place after the Anthony Joshua vs. Daniel Dubois public workout tomorrow at Wembley Arena – Cameron Vuong vs. Joe Underwood Hughes, Chris Kongo vs. Jacob Quinn and Aadam Hamed vs. Santiago Garces.”