BOCA RATON, Fla., March 26, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — “Following a well-researched article by Lance Pugmire about the new boxing league planned by Turki Alalshikh and his partners—Dana White and TKO—Mr. Alalshikh disparaged both Mr. Pugmire and BoxingScene, whose team includes some of boxing’s most accomplished writers. This is unfortunately not the first time Mr. Alalshikh has sought to exert undue pressure on BoxingScene and other news outlets. In essence, Mr. Alalshikh appears to want a press that is censored in its coverage of both the sport and business of boxing.
BoxingScene’s mission is to cover the sport fairly and professionally, without fear or favor. After I became the website’s new owner in 2024, I assured the team that I would respect their journalistic integrity. The reporters and editors alone decide their coverage—what they write and how they write about it. I have not intervened, and will not intervene, even when that coverage has been critical of fighters or fights I promote. Similarly, I do not exert any influence on how BoxingScene covers colleagues and competitors.
Mr. Alalshikh also brought up past litigation against a company I have not been a part of in more than a decade, and he sought to tarnish the award-winning behavioral health company and treatment centers I currently operate. I am proud to work with a team that provides help to thousands of patients suffering from addiction each year. This type of shameless attack on one of my other businesses can only be viewed as a strongarm tactic to pressure me into influencing the reporting of BoxingScene. Mr. Alalshikh’s attempts to censor BoxingScene also include consistently refusing media credentials to BoxingScene’s reporters and barring our editorial team from covering these fights onsite. Regardless, despite these numerous attempts by Mr. Alalshikh to censor BoxingScene, we will not be deterred from our mission of being the fans’ most trusted source for fair and transparent coverage of the sport and business of boxing. Mr. Alalshikh may use his own outlet, Ring Magazine, to promote his personal narratives, but BoxingScene will always remain unbiased and uninfluenced.
So let me be clear: BoxingScene stands by Mr. Pugmire’s article and its team of reporters and editors. They will continue to seek a professional and productive relationship with everyone they cover while remaining independent and impartial. As with the fighters they cover, the writers will not pull their punches. I would hope that Mr. Alalshikh and his partners at TKO would support that approach, given they allegedly want to make the sport better.”
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