In important news for the sport of boxing and MMA (mixed martial arts) there has been a major amendment to the Muhammad Ali Act.
The legal framework known as the Muhammad Ali Act was brought in many years ago in the United States to basically protect professional boxers from back in the day shady promoters and so forth.
These days things are totally different, the boxers are the bosses now and control the show and without them nothing happens, it is as simple as that.
Muhammad Ali Act Gets Major Reform
Boxing Kingdom on the X platform notes Congress in the US have made some big reforms to the Muhammad Ali Act:
“Congress is introducing new legislation to amend the Muhammad Ali Boxing Reform Act on Wednesday. The new bill allows for the creation of alternative systems called Unified Boxing Organizations, seperate to current sanctioning bodies. The UBO’s will be able to award championship titles, similar to how the UFC operates in MMA.”
They also noted:
“The Bill also increases minimum fighter payments and creates a national minimum of $25,000 for health coverage for injuries sustained during a fight.”
Excellent news and another major reform and aggressive overall expansion in the sport of boxing worldwide in a now booming time for professional boxing.
This news all comes ahead of the big Crawford vs Canelo super fight in September that will be TKO Boxing’s first major promotion in the sport.
Lead by Turki Alalshikh and the UFC’s Dana White.
Big times for boxing right now.
On Ali, one of his daughter’s Laila Ali is still alive and one Claressa Shields is looking to try to get Laila Ali into the boxing ring shortly.
Shields returns to action this weekend first up.
