While the glitz and glamour of ‘Riyadh Season’ has taken over the world of boxing throughout 2024, there are many playing cards that Turki Al-Alshikh will not be concerned with that seem like flying beneath the radar. Now, it has been confirmed that one former heavyweight champion of the world will headline a card in entrance of a most of 1,100 onlookers.
Final month, Anthony Joshua and Daniel Dubois went toe-to-toe for the IBF heavyweight title and broke the British boxing attendance document – round 96,000 witnessing the dramatic altering of the guard spectacle as Dubois halted ‘AJ’ in fashion.
But, regardless of making a formidable first defence of the IBF strap, the belt doesn’t assure that there’ll at all times be demand to look at a former world champion in motion, as proven by the return of one other former IBF title-holder and fellow opponent of Joshua’s.
Charles Martin claimed the vacant IBF title again in 2016 with out touchdown a big punch when he defeated Vyacheslav Glazkov by way of third-round technical-knockout – the undefeated Ukrainian citing a knee damage for the defeat and by no means returning since.
Benefiting from Glazkov’s misfortunes, Martin tried to make a tough first defence of the title by travelling to the UK and dealing with Anthony Joshua on the O2 Area. As a substitute, he suffered a second-round knockout loss to mark the top of the second-shortest reign of any heavyweight world champion in historical past.
Nonetheless, Martin’s shortcomings towards ‘AJ’ weren’t the top of his time on the massive stage. ‘Prince’ Charles has appeared on the Garcia-Porter undercard on the Barclays Middle in 2017 and scored a knockout victory over Gerald Washington on the Wilder-Fury II invoice on the MGM Backyard Area in 2020.
Moreover, a spirited show in his most up-to-date outing towards highly-rated American prospect Jared Anderson has proved that the 38-year-old southpaw nonetheless has sufficient within the tank to be a gatekeeper within the division.
Nonetheless, it has now been introduced that Martin will finish a 16-month spell of inactivity on the 1,100 seated capability Fox Theater in Redwood Metropolis, California – taking up 43-year-old Matthew McKinney, who has suffered early knockout defeats to Cassius Chaney and Chris Arreola inside the final couple of years.
The occasion will happen on Saturday November 16th with tickets obtainable to buy from $63.00, though a $10 low cost is on supply by use of promo code ‘Fight_Night’.
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