Saudi chief gives major Canelo Alvarez fight update after Riyadh airport attacks

Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. Saudi adviser and boxing matchmaker Turki Alalshikh has insisted that Canelo Alvarez will fight in Riyadh this month despite this week’s fatal attacks on the city’s international airport . On Saturday, a strike on King Khalid International Airport left 13 people dead and more than 300 injured, according to Saudi officials, before a a second attack claimed another life and injured approximately a dozen people.