TKO's new boxing venture is getting off the ground with a big super fight between Canelo Alvarez and Terence Crawford in September.
Further details aren't fully known, but TKO COO Mark Shapiro provided more insight during the 2025 first quarter earnings calls.
"We're expecting, with the new boxing organization, to put on an average of 12 cards a year for each of the next five years. We're still putting that plan together and obviously working hand in hand with our friends from Saudi. Irrespective of those, we will look to do anywhere from one to four sort-of super fights per year. We'll see how that plays out. Obviously, we would term the Canelo-Crawford match-up as one of those. On that undercard, we would have a number of those fights that would likely air on the television-media partner we would have for our newly formed boxing organization. I should mention, it's not going to be called TKO Boxing. We'll be unveiling our name for our business fairly soon here, but it will not be TKO Boxing. Those are two separate businesses. The Saudis are funding these super fight cards. We'll work with them on media rights deals and commission. We'll work with the on global partnerships and ticketing. We'll handle the production. We'll look to potentially promote all of them with Dana White and Nick Khan driving much of that. Separately, we'll have our boxing organization where we're going out and doing 12 cards a year on average and getting a separate media rights fee, selling global partnerships to those cards, and of course promoting and producing those cards on whatever media platform we choose to tie with," he said.
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