Well, hello, and welcome to Fight Week Daily from Riyadh, or as I like to call it

Too Ad Hoc podcast featuring Andy and John. We are joined by Ben Ransom, and

the reason is because we, I'm going to say we've been scratching around looking for

exclusives and fight weak drama, but hey ho, here we are, we have stumbled on one.

And I say we, because it's the proverbial we, great story from you. What happened in the last 24 hours that you want to talk

to us about well I mean I've eaten four swamas but apart from that no I know

seriousness it was quite remarkable because you're right.

We talk about these fights and I love the coincidence

in that myself and Andy Clark yesterday

were speculating about what might come

between the open workout and fight night. And yeah you say lo and behold we've got a story

Could it be a storming a teacup we'll find out tonight the press comments but essentially I've been told very good authority that someone from

Alexander who 16 has complained about the canvas on the ring and when I say the

canvas we're not talking about the sponge a la Dusseldorf 2015 We're talking literally the bit of material that is on top of the

ring because there's a seam that runs across it. So essentially you have three six foot

wide bits of material, they're all plastered with the sponsors

logos sky spots box office etc they're all still new for each fight and they are

stitched together along a very small seam and when I say small it protrudes about one

millimeter and yet someone from Alexander is 16 saw the exact same canvas at

the open workout last night must have either run his hand over it or thought, what is

that like that?

And they put in a complaint, they're not happy, they've suggested it might be a potential

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