Saudi boxing chiefs plan fights at outrageous venues including Eiffel Tower, Colosseum and inside infamous prison

TURKI ALALSHIKH has revealed stunning plans to big fights astatine venues including the Eiffel Tower, Colosseum and wrong an infamous prison.

Alalshikh has helped spearhead the caller roar successful the sport by offering up immense sums to yet marque the champion fights happen.

But his Riyadh Season and idiosyncratic promotion person started staging events extracurricular of Saudi - including successful London and Los Angeles.

Now Alalshikh has plans to instrumentality the athletics to outrageous venues crossed Europe and America.

He told ESPN: “What bash you deliberation if determination is [an] event, combat successful Alcatraz jailhouse 1 day?

“It is similar a depository now. You know, sometimes I get successful my caput I privation antithetic places to bash [fights].

"Sometimes successful mountains, possibly someday successful the Pyramids successful Mexico, someday successful Eiffel Tower successful France, Coliseum successful Italy. You recognize this concept?”

Alcatraz

The correctional installation successful San Jose has imprisoned immoderate of the world's astir notorious criminals, including gangster Al Capone.

It closed successful 1963 due to the fact that it became excessively costly to support and run - since turning into a depository and touring spot.

No sports lawsuit has ever been held connected the land - but inmates were known to play shot and softball portion locked up.

Eiffel Tower

The 1,000-foot operation outgo £1.2billion to conception successful 1889 - which equates to £30BILLION successful the existent day.

In 2024, the Eiffel Tower stadium was built for the Paris Olympics with the landmark attraction lasting implicit the field.

Beach volleyball and unsighted shot were played there - but the impermanent stadium was dismantled aft the Games ended.

The Colosseum

The past amphitheatre - successful Italy's superior of Rome - was constructed astir 2,000 years agone successful AD 70–80.

It hosted respective Roman sports events, including gladiator games and chaotic carnal hunts but was NOT utilized successful the 1960 Olympics.

But successful 2023, UFC brag Dana White tried to get a sensational MMA combat betwixt tech moguls Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk staged astatine the Colosseum.

Mexican Pyramids

Mexico has respective historical pyramids, including the Mayan and Aztec.

There person been unrecorded euphony events staged by the pyramids but not sports events similar pro wrestling.

Instead, boxing matches are usually held successful arenas oregon stadiums - including the 80,000-seat Azteca.

Alalshikh besides named Mount Rushmore successful South Dakota, The Intrepid craft bearer successful New York and the Chinese Theatre successful Hollywood arsenic different options.

National Memorial sculpture Mount Rushmore has the carved heads of US presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln.

Mount Rushmore erstwhile had an an amateur shot squad but nary games were ever played connected site.

The Intrepid is simply a subject and maritime past depository successful New York City - located astatine Pier 86 astatine 46th Street.

And successful 2001, a boxing paper was televised from the formation platform of The USS Intrepid.

The Chinese Theatre - successful LA - is simply a movie palace connected the historical Hollywood Walk of Fame.

No sports events person been staged wrong oregon extracurricular the theatre, but ceremonies person including for the precocious hoops fable Kobe Bryant.