The United States Congress introduced a bill that could push the box into a parallel universe, which brings a striking resemblance to the UFC.

Named the Act on Awakening Muhammad Ali’s boxeries, a double -sided proposal aims to create “United Boxing Organizations” (UBOS), dresses adapted to the promoter with its own rankings, belts and principles, meaning a seismic departure from long -term protection protected in 2000.

UFC style boxing rankings

After adopting the provisions of not lifting the current sanctioning bodies, WBC, WBA, IBF and WBO. However, he would build a competing system that allows companies such as TKO Group Holdings, freshly from their Saudi boxing cooperation, effectively set up a shop with a monopolis in the UFC style.

Ubos would be able to:

Run your own ranking systems without body interference

Admit your own titles (which means at least one belt in many divisions)

Avoid enforcement of sanctioning belts by Ali

Establishment of internal drug testing programs

Offer fighters minimal bags of USD 150 per round

Ensure $ 25,000 in the scope of fighting injuries

Occupy health insurance and rehabilitation for contracted boxers

The fighters will face the choice

Critics say that this is a backdoor for the dominance of the promoter, limitations of fighters and devalued titles, all under the guise of the prosperity of athletes.

If the bill becomes the law, the boxers can completely give up sanctioning the paths of the body and sign with PAN, breaking away from the classic title radar in exchange for a coherent salary, insurance and promotional control.

This “choice” can cost. He is worried that adolescent fighters will be directed in silos controlled by a promoter, unable to move for great purposes or chasing the legacy in recognized world championships.

Despite the promised protection, the Act enlivens the debate on freedom vs. control, vigorous long criticized in MMA and one that the original Ali act was to prevent in boxing.

Early slack

Congressman Brian Jack, one of Bill architects, claims that the law creates a legal space for organizations such as TKO to bypass “sanctioning body policy” with its own duels and belt systems.

Not everyone is convinced. Behind closed doors, boxing stakeholders are afraid that the fragmentation of power will further expand the ID card.

Others are worried that this can open the gate to more senseless belts, more ranking disputes and less real world champions.

Moment of the UFC boxing?

Basically, the bill offers a fork on a regulatory boxing path. Although it does not eliminate the current alphabet soup, it encourages powerful entities to establish its own platforms, titles and operations in the style of league. These are all topics that would be prohibited as part of the current ALI ACT frame.

With TKO, UFC’s home company, already in the foreground, and with the support of the White House, boxing seems to throw the era of optional titles, divided ecosystems and compromises paid for stability.

How long, before the “undisputed” sentence becomes completely irrelevant, because the fighters at the top of the modern UFC or TKO boxing will never consider themselves a united or unquestionable master in their entire career?

On the other hand, those who remain committed to the tradition of the current belt system will always have to face the UFC boxing master with a title that they can never deal with.

Even if there is a clash between the code between the sanctioning body champion and the UFC boxing champion, or you had to give up the lanes immediately.

If the TKO system builds significant fighters with the names Pay-Per-View, as expected, the question of who is a real master, becomes even more complicated than today, along with the implementation of the fifth belt, and the sixth if you attach the ring strap.

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Phil Jay is an experienced boxing journalist with over 15 years of experience covering the global fight scene. How The editor -in -chief of World Boxing News since 2010Jay has An interview with dozens of world champions was conducted AND Ring reported On the largest boxing nights. [View all articles by Phil Jay] And find out more about his work in combat sports journalism.

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