The UFC and Saudi Arabia have prolonged their partnership.
Tuesday, Saudi Arabia’s chairman of the overall leisure authority for leisure Turki Alalshikh, introduced in a press launch that the UFC and Riyadh Season have continued their partnership, which incorporates internet hosting one other battle occasion throughout 2024-25. As well as, Riyadh Season will sponsor UFC 306 in September, which takes place at The Sphere in Las Vegas.
“This settlement is a continuation of Riyadh Season’s goals to host and companion with outstanding and worldwide occasions of mass curiosity,” Alalshikh mentioned in a press launch. “It additionally enhances our efforts for Riyadh Season to provide numerous content material to be able to interact and appeal to an excellent wider viewers with completely different pursuits from around the globe. UFC is essentially the most outstanding combined martial arts group on the planet and their platform of world followers is unequalled.”
Alalshikh posted a photograph with UFC CEO Dana White to social media, together with a duplicate of the press launch.
A strategic settlement has been signed between Riyadh Season and the Final Preventing Championship (UFC), together with the sponsorship of the UFC occasion in Las Vegas, the UFC occasion in Riyadh, and Energy Slap competitions 🇸🇦❤️ #RiyadhSeason pic.twitter.com/JFe6hVE4jO
— TURKI ALALSHIKH (@Turki_alalshikh) Could 7, 2024
The UFC’s first occasion in Saudi Arabia will happen Saturday, June 22 at Kingdom Enviornment. The occasion shall be headlined by a middleweight title-eliminator matchup between former champion Robert Whittaker and prime contender Khamzat Chimaev.
The prolonged settlement between UFC and Riyadh Season additionally consists of internet hosting a future Energy Slap occasion in Riyadh.
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