Ring Magazine reports a potential deal to hold a WBO welterweight title fight between Teofimo Lopez and a challenger on Alcatraz Island. The match would need National Park Service approval and logistical clearances. The owner of Ring Magazine, who heads Saudi Arabia's General Entertainment Authority, is pushing to stage major sports events at iconic global locations.
The most famous prison in the world may be hosting its first ever professional sporting event. According to Ring Magazine, World Boxing Organization's welterweight champion Teofimo Lopez is working on a potential deal to host a defense of his title at Alcatraz Island. Alcatraz opened as a prison in the 1960s and operates as a museum today. It has never hosted a professional sporting event, and to do so requires approval of the National Park Service, among other things. The owner of Ring Magazine, who is also the head of Saudi Arabia's General Entertainment Authority, has indicated that he wants to host professional sports sporting events just like this at iconic locations all around the world. I think this would be incredible. I've always thought that Alcatraz is an underutilized space just as a museum. I think it'd be worth going to just for the spectacle alone, but let me know what you think in the comments.
