BRENTWOOD, ESSEX – October 5, 2025 – Matchroom Sport and Riyadh Season at this time introduced a brand new groundbreaking collaboration that may cowl a number of giant occasions throughout Matchroom Boxing, Skilled Darts Company, and World Snooker.
The landmark deal ensures Riyadh Season continues to play a key and visual function in some massive nights forward for Matchroom Sport – with a multi-channel partnership and the Riyadh Season model that includes prominently throughout Matchroom Sport occasions.
Riyadh Season launched in 2019 and achieved a significant milestone throughout its most up-to-date Season when the variety of guests exceeded 20 million for the primary time. Riyadh Season’s influence has additionally seen boxing and various sports activities – together with snooker – remodeled by delivering among the most memorable nights within the fashionable period.
In its partnership with Matchroom Boxing, it has already introduced among the sport’s most enjoyable showdowns to Riyadh, in addition to throughout the globe, together with within the UK, USA and Mexico, attracting high-level worldwide consideration and top-tier expertise corresponding to Anthony Joshua, Dmitry Bivol, Jai Opetaia, and Conor Benn, who faces bitter rival Chris Eubank Jr of their eagerly awaited rematch ‘Unfinished Enterprise’ on Saturday, November 15 on the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London – screened solely worldwide on DAZN. And on November 22, in Riyadh, pound-for-pound famous person Jesse ‘Bam’ Rodriguez fights Fernando “Puma” Martinez for the Unified Tremendous-Bantamweight titles – together with the coveted Ring Journal belt – as a part of The Ring IV battle card, ‘Evening of Champions’, headlined by Anthony Yarde and David Benavidez.
In the identical week, snooker’s all-time greats – corresponding to Ronnie O’Sullivan and defending champion Mark Allen – return to Saudi Arabia from November 19 to 21 for the Riyadh Season Snooker Championship, delivered by WST and broadcast within the UK on TNT Sports activities. The match is greatest identified for the distinctive gold ball, value 20 factors and might solely be potted on the finish of a most 147, for an unprecedented ‘super-maximum’ of 167 – and $1million, the snooker’s greatest ever bonus prize.
Darts’ greatest names will even be part of this yr’s Riyadh Season for the primary ever Saudi Arabia Darts Masters in January 2026 – a part of the PDC’s 2026 World Sequence of Darts world roadshow, which is able to see star-studded occasions happening throughout 4 continents, all out there to look at within the UK through ITV Sport. The inaugural occasion will happen on January 19 and 20, giving native followers the prospect to be a part of darts’ distinctive ambiance for the primary time ever, whereas hundreds of thousands of followers shall be tuning in world wide by way of the PDC’s world community of broadcast companions.
The sixth version of Riyadh Season formally launches this month, with standout occasions together with October’s Six Kings Slam, the place six of males’s tennis’ main gamers together with Jannik Sinner, Carlos Alcarez and Novak Djokovic will compete, with extra boxing to come back in December involving Japan’s greatest fighters in ‘Ring V: Evening of the Samurai’, that includes Naoya Inoue and Junto Nakatani. Riyadh Season will even make historical past in January 2026 when WWE’s thirty ninth annual Royal Rumble is held in Riyadh – the primary time the landmark occasion shall be staged outdoors of North America, with cultural phenomenon Wrestlemania 43 set to comply with in 2027.
His Excellency Turki Alalshikh, Chairman of the Board of Administrators of the Normal Leisure Authority (GEA) mentioned: “Riyadh Season’s repute is constructed on being linked to occasions that carry large and world curiosity and Matchroom Sport has been an necessary a part of many of those events with us thus far. We look ahead to persevering with our relationship and constructing on what we’ve got already developed collectively to ship much more ground-breaking and thrilling tournaments and occasions sooner or later.”
Matchroom Sport Chairman Eddie Hearn added: “We’re delighted to enter an thrilling partnership with Riyadh Season as our particular relationship continues to thrive. And we’re simply getting began.
“We’re extremely grateful to His Excellency Turki Alalshikh for his continued funding in Boxing – and now into Snooker and Darts. The longer term is vibrant and we’re massively excited to ship many extra unforgettable nights for sports activities followers all around the world collectively in partnership with Riyadh Season.”
