Deontay Wilder vs. Zhilei Zhang | PPV - June 1, 2024

[SportsRatings]

Not getting this for 2 reasons:

1) It's in Saudi Arabia

2) My cable company says it's a 7 hour card! Who has that much time on their hands?

You are forced to watch every fight if you get the PPV? That would stop me from getting anything

[Ruthless-RKO]

Fight Night!!

[Sendo Takeshi]

Not getting this for 2 reasons:

1) It's in Saudi Arabia

2) My cable company says it's a 7 hour card! Who has that much time on their hands?

Some of the best fights are happening there, and boxing events always feature more then one or two bouts.

EDIT: A 30 kg difference is crazy. Even though it obviously makes a bigger difference in the lower weightclasses, seeing how Haney was going crazy after the ~1 kg difference with Garcia is kinda funny

That being said, Wilder is the most dangerous when he is lean like that.

[Ruthless-RKO]

Live from Kingdon Arena in Riyadh, KSA on 1 June 2024.
Riyadh Season & Various Promotions presents: Queensberry vs. Matchroom 5 vs. 5

DAZN UK PPV: 7 pm BST | 9 pm (local) | Price: £21.99
TNT Sports Box Office: 7 pm BST | 9 pm (local) | Price: £21.99

DAZN (worldwide): Check local listings Price: $21.99 (local currency)
DAZN US/CAD PPV: 1 pm ET | 10 am PT | Price: $69.99

Running Order

Preliminary Card - 6 pm Local

4 pm BST

PPV Card - 7 pm BST | 9 pm Local | 2 pm ET | 11 am PT

12 Round Light Heavyweight Contest
Willy Hutchinson vs. Craig Richards

Followed by

WBA Featherweight Championship
Raymond Ford vs. Nick Ball

Followed by

12 Round Light Heavyweight Contest
Hamzah Sheeraz vs. Austin Williams

Followed by

WBA Light Heavyweight Championship
Dmitry Bivol vs. Malik Zinad

Followed by

Interim IBF Heavyweight Championship
Daniel Dubois vs. Filip Hrgovic

main event

12 Round Heavyweight Contest
Deontay Wilder vs. Zhilei Zhang

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[Tony1244]

The 3 fights I'm most interested in are towards the end and I wish some of the best fights weren't in Saudi Arabia.

[SportsRatings]

Funny that the card is being promoted as "Hearn vs. Warren" rather than Wilder vs. Zhang

[Ruthless-RKO]

Funny that the card is being promoted as "Hearn vs. Warren" rather than Wilder vs. Zhang

What's wrong with that?

I mean the headline bout was Bivol-Beterbiev, but canelled.

I think it's fitting anyway.

It is queensberry vs. matchroom

[BroughtonRulesRefuge]

- 41 year old Zhang is still relatively unknown at this level other than he had close losses to Parker and Hrg, but he did manage to KD Parker thrice. Fight won't go the distance once Deyonce starts going down and finally gets stopped by count or ref the ref since he literally never learned how to box and been heavily outboxed in most of his fights til he played his ace equalizer right hand. Also a good case for being punch drunk, but at age 38 with Zhang 41, this is a geriatric fight by any measure regardless of outcome.

Hrg likely outboxes Dubois who don't look like he has much boxing IQ. He's just a big strong kid being used by Queensberry.

[joshj909]

- 41 year old Zhang is still relatively unknown at this level other than he had close losses to Parker and Hrg, but he did manage to KD Parker thrice. Fight won't go the distance once Deyonce starts going down and finally gets stopped by count or ref the ref since he literally never learned how to box and been heavily outboxed in most of his fights til he played his ace equalizer right hand. Also a good case for being punch drunk, but at age 38 with Zhang 41, this is a geriatric fight by any measure regardless of outcome.

Hrg likely outboxes Dubois who don't look like he has much boxing IQ. He's just a big strong kid being used by Queensberry.

Zhang has faced the same or more top opponents than Wilder.

Zhang has Hrgovic (L), Parker (L) and Joyce (W).

Wilder has Fury (L), Parker (L) and Ortiz (W) if you're being generous.

[dempseyfire]

Not getting this for 2 reasons:

1) It's in Saudi Arabia

2) My cable company says it's a 7 hour card! Who has that much time on their hands?

You are forced to watch every fight if you get the PPV? That would stop me from getting anything

My big issue with DAZN is for those without basic cable (i.e. anyone under 50), you are forced to subscribe to DAZN to get the PPV. To not give people the option of buying the PPV as a one-off is a bizarre business move; I don't want to deal with having to cancel DAZN after especially as I've read people have had issues doing that.

[margaret thatcher]

Funny that the card is being promoted as "Hearn vs. Warren" rather than Wilder vs. Zhang

ya, cant recall many cases where card is billed as a battle of promoters and they are the leading guys on all the promotional materia

[Ruthless-RKO]

Funny that the card is being promoted as "Hearn vs. Warren" rather than Wilder vs. Zhang

ya, cant recall many cases where card is billed as a battle of promoters and they are the leading guys on all the promotional materia

That’s the whole concept though ain’t it?

[margaret thatcher]

ya, and ive never seen it before where the promoters are the starss of the show

[Ruthless-RKO]

The Americans in the forum not awake??

[Ruthless-RKO]

ya, and ive never seen it before where the promoters are the starss of the show

That’s why their mugs are front and centre

[margaret thatcher]

i know

[goose 5]

Terrific card !Worth every cent.

[Contendeh]

For the sake of his own health Wilder should hang it up.

I would much rather see Anderson vs Miller in the “Battle of Big Babies.”

[tigermoth87]

There is something so satisfying about seeing Wilder get kncoked out

[DrDuke]

There is something so satisfying about seeing Wilder get kncoked out

He's made a career on can crushing and now the top fighters are making money on crushing him.

[KiwiRider]

There is something so satisfying about seeing Wilder get kncoked out

He got up within ten and turned to fight and got waved off. Quite unsatisfying really.

[lazboy]

There is something so satisfying about seeing Wilder get kncoked out

He got up within ten and turned to fight and got waved off. Quite unsatisfying really.

A fitting end. A fighter who has been looked after most of his career was looked after by the ref in his last meaningful fight.

[margaret thatcher]

zhang reminds me of 90s george foreman

big, old heavy plodding guy, bringing the bombs and the pain, ocassionally gassing and getting out pointed

[cormack]

ah where are all those sycophantic yankee wilder fanboys from a few years ago slavishly predicting wilder will batter the entire HW division and be king of the hill .

he is finished and you have nothing else at HW

[margaret thatcher]

wilder had a good run, made loads of money and was a big player in the diivision for years.

but so much quantity over quality in that win column. 43 wins and stiverne and brezeale still among tthe top 3 guys he beat. think about that