This award is open to analysis and a difficult one to arrive at but 2025 again showed to us clearly who it was in boxing.
A non-participant basically like the Hall of Fame in boxing simply refers to those in boxing, in professional boxing, the highest level of the sport, who are involved as non active fighters.
That can go from trainers, to coaches to promoters to even sometimes network or streaming company owners and executives if they help put on many big events for the sport in a given year.
This year it went to none of them for us.
2025 Boxing News and Views 2025 Non Participant Of The Year Award
Not a promoter, more a sports advisor and organizer in the middle East, Turki Alalshikh of Saudi Arabia.
His great country, great King of Saudi Arabia and the strong government of Saudi Arabia did great things for boxing and professional sport again in the East and even in the West again this year.
He along with Dana White of the UFC put on a great event for their first event for TKO in 2025 with the big Canelo Alvarez vs Terence Crawford fight live on Netflix.
It went off without a hitch and did very well and saw the new TKO organization get off to a strong start.
Turki Alalshikh also helped organize and assist another big amount of other huge fights again for the sport this year and saw the sport grow again exponentially in the East overall and Asia again.
Well deserved.
