The announcement that the superstar and rapper Snoop Dogg and Kavanaugh would team up to form a new professional league in boxing known as The Fight Club was announced by the co-owner of Triller, Ryan Kavanaugh, on Tuesday.
As per TMZ sports, it was explained by Ryan Kavanaugh that Saturday’s card was headlined by Mike Tyson as well as Roy Jones Jr, which was the first event that took place under the Fight Club umbrella. He regarded the shows of Saturday as a huge event and said this is going to be a big event. It would be taken further with the aim of the way boxing is done.
What was the idea behind the event?
According to Kavanaugh, the idea would be taken forward with the vision to hold cards with sanctioned fights and non-sanctioned fights. The same was the case with the shows conducted on Saturday’s. The exhibition was between Tyson and Jones, while all the other fights were against the boxers’ records.
Because of the entertaining commentary by Snoop Dogg, the event was highly praised. His commentary during the knockout of Jake Paul, which won over the former star of the NBA, Nate Robinson, and the main event took place between Jones and Tyson.
According to Kavanaugh, Snoop would also contribute to booking the fights as well as different musical acts along with his commentary for future events. Furthermore, an upcoming fight was hyped by him that he is currently working on. He said that the audience would applaud his upcoming project. He claimed that this would be huge from the perspective of worldwide appetite and something that people would want to look forward to.
How is it different?
Although boxing might have lost its massive popularity like in earlier times, Kavanaugh’s goal is to make boxing gain its popularity back. The card between Tyson and Jones became a huge controversy on social media. It captured a lot of attention from people all around. All of the similar events related to it could go far, making boxing popular again among youth. In 2011 Kavanaugh was honoured with the Entertainment Industry Award by the League of Anti-defamation, a group that is completely committed to fighting anti-Semitism and the bigotry of all kinds. The award is especially given to those individuals who would demonstrate leadership as well as extraordinary innovation in the entertainment industry.
