A historic landmark could host a skilled boxing match this summer season.
In accordance with Ring, WBO junior welterweight champion Teofimo Lopez is near an settlement to get into the ring on Alcatraz Island.
Ring notes that Riyadh Season promoter Turki Alalshikh lately advised ESPN he hoped to host a battle on the former jail turned museum sooner or later. Lopez will battle for the model.
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Alcatraz Island might host a championship boxing match this summer season. (Brandon Sloter/Getty Pictures)
“You understand, typically I get in my thoughts I would like totally different locations to do [fights]. Generally in mountains, perhaps sometime within the Pyramids in Mexico, sometime in [the] Eiffel Tower in France, [the] Colosseum in Italy,” Alalshikh stated.
It is unclear whether or not the title could be up for grabs, however contemplating Lopez defended his title twice final 12 months, it appears doubtless.
The jail opened in 1934, however it did not even final 30 years.
Contemplating its 1.25-mile distance to shore, the Bay Space island was thought-about virtually escape-proof, though there have been 14 documented tried escapes.
Probably the most infamous one was the June 11, 1962, escape by John and Clarence Anglin and Frank Morris, which impressed “Escape from Alcatraz.”
Teofimo Lopez celebrates after defeating Jamaine Ortiz of their WBO junior welterweight world title bout at Michelob Extremely Area. (Joe Camporeale/USA At the moment Sports activities)
It stays a thriller whether or not the three reached shore and survived. The FBI concluded the escapees drowned because of harsh circumstances.
The three prisoners chiseled an escape route from their very own jail cells and constructed makeshift, papier mâché heads.
The ultimate tried escape from the jail, virtually six months later, impressed what has grow to be the swimming route of the “Escape from Alcatraz” triathlon.
Each Al Capone and George “Machine Gun” Kelly served time on the jail.
Low fog swirls round Alcatraz and the Golden Gate Bridge underneath clear skies as boats sail on the San Francisco Bay Sept. 16, 2020, in Berkeley, Calif. (Lea Suzuki/San Francisco Chronicle through Getty Pictures)
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Lopez is 21-1 with 13 knockouts however has not fought since June, a 12-round unanimous choice victory over Steve Claggett.
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