The 2025 Riyadh Season will begin in Saudi Arabia on October 10 and run until March 2026. Saudi Arabia’s flagship entertainment festival is spearheaded by His Excellency Turki Alalshikh, the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the General Entertainment Authority (GEA).
The 2025 edition will be bigger than ever with 11 main entertainment zones across Riyadh, hosting 15 global championships and 34 exhibitions and festivals.
Riyadh Season Worth $3.2 billion
Riyadh Season is now worth a record $3.2 billion, while the 2024 edition welcomed 20 million visitors from over 135 countries.
Sport is a key part of Riyadh Season and the 2025 event will host WWE’s Royal Rumble for the first time. It’s the first time WWE’s marque wrestling event has been held outside of North America, with Wrestlemania set to follow in Saudi in 2027.
Boulevard City will host eight tournaments, with padel, snooker and darts among the sports on show.
And tennis’ Six Kings Slam returns, featuring six of the world’s best men’s tennis players including Novak Djokovic, Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcarez.
Alalshikh is known for bringing elite-level boxing to Saudi Arabia and this year’s Riyadh Season is no exception. There will be several high-profile boxing events, including world title fights between David Benavidez and Anthony Yarde, and Brian Norman Jr. and Devin Haney.
And legends Tom Brady and Rob Gronkowski will be on show as part of Fanatics Flag Football Classic on March 21, 2026 at Kingdom Arena.
NBA Hall of Famer Shaquille O’Neal and YouTuber MrBeast are among the other high-profile names to have signed up, with the latter given a decided zone called ‘Beast Land’ which will feature over 27 rides and experiences.
The sixth edition of Riyadh Season continues to support the Saudi economy by creating over 25,000 jobs. Since the launch of Riyadh Season in 2019, the festival has welcomed visitors from all over the world to experience thousands of sports events, concerts and cultural events.
WWE has revealed Roman Reigns‘ post-SummerSlam schedule, which has seemingly hinted at the possible outcome of this weekend’s match against Seth Rollins.
Reigns puts his World Heavyweight Championship on the line against his old foe, with the two once again meeting, only this time, with bigger stakes than ever before.
Reigns initially won the title back at WrestleMania, defeating CM Punk, before successfully defending his title against his cousin Jacob Fatu.
With an eagerly anticipated match-up at SummerSlam on the horizon, and Reigns’ schedule after the Premium Live Event revealed, it looks like the ending of this weekend’s clash may have already been spoiled.
Roman Reigns Takes on Seth Rollins at SummerSlam
Once again, the two former Shield members meet in the ring. A historic rivalry, and one which may be settled this weekend, as Rollins looks to take back his title.
The Visionary has been looking to regain gold ever since he was forced to relinquish it due to injury. Since then, Reigns has only kicked on, as he became champion in a legendary clash with CM Punk. It was so good that The Tribal Chief received his first-ever five-star match from Dave Meltzer.
What makes this weekend’s tussle all the more interesting is that the pair haven’t met one-on-one since Royal Rumble 2022. That night, Reigns retained the Universal Title. However, what bodes well for Rollins is, in one-on-one matches, he holds a slight edge, with five wins and four losses in their 10 matches.
Roman Reigns Post SummerSlam Schedule Revealed
Reigns’ next few months of appearances have already been revealed by WWE‘s social media page. He has already been confirmed to be at the Monday Night Raw after SummerSlam, which may be a sign that he will successfully retain his title and defeat Rollins. One quote tweet even said: “He shows up on Raw after SummerSlam lmaooo it’s so over for us.”
Outside the immediate aftermath, he is also set to appear two more times in August, on the 17th and the 28th, the latter being a double taping of Raw and SmackDown in Cleveland, Ohio.
However, the activity soon fades away, as he is only set to feature once in September. That event being in Mexico City on the 14th for Raw. Furthermore, he is only scheduled twice in October, though, one appearance will be at Money in the Bank. In the lead-up to the big event, he will be on Raw that same week, as it takes place in St Louis, Missouri.
With the news, some fans are fairly disappointed as it looks like Reigns is set to once again keep his championship. In addition to this, he also doesn’t seem to be too active after August, which also isn’t ideal.
He appears in the movie Street Fighter, which comes out in October. All the press for the movie may be a factor leading to this inactivity.
The Irishman returned to the Octagon for the first time in five years in Las Vegas, Nevada, though, the long-awaited fight with Holloway couldn’t have ended more abruptly and more disappointingly.
McGregor opened the fight up with a jumping switch kick. It’s fairly normal for him to begin proceedings with a flashy kick, only this time he buckled to the floor, with his knees unable to withstand the pressure.
In the aftermath of the fight, there was plenty of speculation regarding what happened, with Sutterer now posing more questions since seeing what McGregor has been doing following the injury.
Doctor Has Suspicions About Conor McGregor’s Injury
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In the immediate aftermath of the fight at UFC 329, Sutterer gave his thoughts on the possible injury, saying: “So, actually seeing all this, my first thought would be a meniscus tear, specifically that lateral meniscus because of him grabbing on the outside of his knee.”
There was also speculation about whether or not McGregor was injured prior. He seemed fairly cautious at both the ceremonial weigh-ins and on the cage walk. However, the Irishman has since said that he wasn’t hindered in the lead-up.
Reflecting on the situation, Sutterer has now touched on the recovery and McGregor’s possible journey back to the Octagon, and he’s made an eye-opening claim about what the fighter has been doing in the aftermath.
“Starting to wonder what’s going on with Conor McGregor’s ACL tear. He’s posting a lot of pretty intense, knee-loading workout videos and seems to have great range of motion and function. If the plan is a return for IFW 2027, and he truly has a complete ACL tear, he needs to get that surgery done, and I’m surprised he hasn’t had it yet based on what’s been reported.”
Conor McGregor’s Future in UFC
With the anticlimactic ending of UFC 329, there’s no surprise that McGregor is eager to redeem himself. As Sutterer touched on, he’s been active on social media, posting some clips from his recovery.
In one of his posts, he talked about what may have led to the injury, and the intention of being back for next year.
“The white, orange and green machine, mosying on back to the office, up the office! Sorry I’m late, but the dry ice has the cage floor wet. It’s a no-contest now chop chop for the champ champ. I’ll see ya’s next year 100%.”
A trilogy fight with Holloway could be on the table. The Hawaiian fighter didn’t shut down the possible contest, saying: “He was talking about this 170 domain, he was talking about this different world. I wanna feel it. I’m down to come back in 2027.”
Both fighters seem to be looking for a return in 2027, so perhaps that could be the way forward.
Roberto De Zerbi has revealed that another signing at Tottenham Hotspur is imminent, with the club set to continue their busy start to the transfer window.
The Lilywhites have already added a number of players to their ranks, spending around £237 million in the process. Sandro Tonali has arrived from Newcastle United for £100 million, Mateus Fernandes has joined from West Ham for £85 million, while Jan Paul van Hecke was acquired from Brighton for £52 million.
On top of this, Martin Dubravka, Marcos Senesi and Andy Robertson have all signed on free transfers.
The attention now turns to strengthening the attack, and De Zerbi has told Spurs journalist Alasdair Gold that a new arrival is imminent.
New Tottenham Signing Imminent
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Tottenham have been heavily linked with Manchester City’s Savinho, although De Zerbi has hinted that another big signing could be N17-bound before the Brazilian.
“In the transfer market, when I want one player, I become like a shark, No chance to say no!” he told Football.London.
“The transfer market, it’s not finished for sure, but we completed 60% of our project in the transfer market. Now we have another bomba!”
