A source has advised The Ring that September's Riyadh Season card - featuring the blockbuster fight between Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and Terence Crawford - will become the first boxing event to take place at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas.

Allegiant Stadium, which opened in 2020, is a domed multi-purpose stadium and home to the Las Vegas Raiders of the NFL and the UNLV Rebels college football team. The venue has a seating capacity of 65,000 and the ability to expand to 71,835.

The stadium is in high demand when it comes to hosting some of the biggest events in the United States. Allegiant hosted Super Bowl LVIII in February 2024 and will host WrestleMania 41 in April 2025 and the College Football Playoff National Championship game in January 2027.

The Alvarez-Crawford megafight will pit the No. 3 fighter on The Ring’s pound-for-pound list, Crawford, against the seventh-rated Alvarez, boxing’s most marketable star in the United States.

Crawford (41-0, 31 KOs), of Omaha, Nebraska, and Alvarez (62-2-2, 39 KOs), of Guadalajara, Mexico, are four-division champions and elite-level talents, but Crawford will move up two weight classes – from the junior middleweight limit of 154 pounds to the super middleweight maximum of 168 – for what figures to be the most difficult fight of his 17-year professional career.