Dana White has received a huge blow with one of his large UFC events that are now planned to collide with Canelo Alvarez vs Terence Crawford.
Last week it was announced that Dana White's debut -boxing event would be led by a huge fight between Canelo Alvarez vs Terence Crawford, which deposited the promotion in an epic way.
The UFC boss has noticeably taken a step back from some of his responsibilities in Prime Minister MMA promotion when he fans furiously left last Saturday when he skipped the UFC 315 post-fighting conference.
Despite that, he recovered last Tuesday when he finally announced the UFC 317 Main Event, because fans have been waiting for the announcement for months.
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Canelo vs Crawford is now set to clash with a huge UFC event
Despite making a huge announcement, White only got a huge blow a few hours earlier when his TKO box partner, Turki Alalshikh announced that he was moving Canelo vs Crawford from Friday 12 September to Saturday 13 September.
Usually this would not be a big problem, but the UFC is planned to host their Nouch UFC event on 13 September in what is a huge event.
Last year, the promotion kept their Noche UFC event in the atmosphere in what was a historic unique event that will probably never be replicated.
This year, the NOCHE UFC event, also known as UFC 320, will take place in Guadalajara, Mexico, and the first UFC event in Noche is that takes place in Mexico.
More disturbingly announced Alshikh that the event will now be a Riyad season PPV event, without commenting on whether TKO boxing will be any event.
Turki Alalshikh tells @ringmagazine that he has decided that the Canelo Alvarez-Terce Crawford Riyad season will take place on Saturday 13 September instead of the day before. He says that the fight could land in New York, LA or Las Vegas, which of the five potential locations also presents …
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Canelo vs Crawford still has no locations set
Although the enormous super middleweight title fight still needs a location, AloShikh believes that there are different locations that could land.
Initially, however, the event would take place from the Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, despite the concern of White about hosting events in a stadium.
More details about the boxing super fight will be announced in the coming weeks, with another location that still has to be decided. It is unclear how white will go with him now planned to promote two events at two different locations, in the same week.