The Englishman executed his gameplan perfectly in Diriyah to get his career and the heavyweight division back on track
The rains came early on Saturday night in Diriyah, lashing down on the 15,000‑seat purpose-built arena on the north‑west outskirts of the Saudi capital. They forced the early arrivers to take cover in the tight concourses, reducing the crowd to pockets of spectators hiding under bin bags scattered across the empty stands.
There was a humour, or some might say a hint of cosmic justice, in the skies opening up above a city with one of the world’s lowest annual rainfalls and threatening to spoil the first ever heavyweight championship fight to be staged in the Middle East. A week so dominated by talk of sportswashing was in danger of being washed out.
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