The average pro boxing career is 5 years.
It’s extraordinary to see politicians acting as though allowing 6 year long exclusive promoter contracts is a labor protection.
There are absolutely provisions that are positive with safety and should be in a new bill, but the ability to not release revenue to the headliners who drew the money serves only one master--the promoter. This is a bill written by a promotion that benefits more from it. The legacy of the original act was to protect fighters from promoters who didn't pay them fairly and this bill will put boxing right back to where it was, and perhaps worse because the current marketplace will end up far less competitive than the pre-Ali act marketplace. It's sad this obvious stuff was passed.
@NASHFLASH194914@AdrianReyn79551 In many cases, yes they can. Take off the gloves a fight is a fight and the boxer has just as much of a chance as the judo guy, wrestler, or jack of all trades
They want you to believe some undocumented immigrant making less than $8 an hour picking tomatoes is to blame for all your problems while 5 billionaires are racing to become trillionaires by replacing your job with a robot. Wake up and fight back.
The fact that the boxing media can't even cover that tells you everything.
They're too busy with Jake Paul hot takes and whatever the trivial outrage of the day is. Meanwhile the most fundamental structural shift in the history of American boxing is going to a floor vote and the people who cover this sport for a living are nowhere. If you sat this out — if you had a platform and a byline and you chose not to pick up the phone — you forfeit the right to ever discuss anything of substance in this sport again. You don't get to write about fighter pay. You don't get to write about commission reform. You don't get to write about the state of boxing. You had your chance. It was this bill. And you blew it.
@brigxelfeed@AdrianReyn79551 Boxing more an "art" than MMA. Check death toll on boxers every yr. They are all great (except Khamzat) in their own right but it's silly to believe a top-class boxer wouldn't have a shot against a "jack of all trades" which is what most of MMA has evolved to.
@NASHFLASH194914@AdrianReyn79551 Art Jimmerson was never a world-level boxing champion or even a contender & the tourney was setup to promote Gracie jj. Cool story though Uncle Dana