Saturday brings another stacked boxing card in Saudi Arabia, headlined by the Artur Beterbiev vs. Dmitry Bivol matchup for the undisputed light heavyweight championship.
It’s a fight of rare quality, between two brilliant fighters in the latest ESPN pound-for-pound top 10 to crown the first four-belt light heavyweight world champion.
But there are more fights on the bill before Beterbiev faces Bivol, including title fights at cruiserweight and women’s featherweight.
ESPN ranks the five best fights on Saturday’s Riyadh Season bill.
No. 5: Skye Nicolson vs. Raven Chapman
Nicolson, the WBC featherweight champion, and Chapman (9-0, 2 KOs) will contest the first female fight on a Riyadh Season event in Saudi Arabia. Women’s boxing has not been part of the big-money Riyadh Season fight cards, which is hosting boxing’s biggest cards mostly in Saudi Arabia.
You get the feeling a good fight will help convince Turki Alalshikh, who controls lineups on Saudi Arabia-backed boxing events, to include more…
