Documents reveal how much the UFC is spending to kill the Muhammad Ali Expansion Act.
On May 26th, 2000 the United States Congress enacted the Muhammad Ali Reform Boxing Act. The legislation brought amendments to the Boxing Safety Act of 1996 which were aimed at reforming, ‘unfair and anti-competitive practices in the professional boxing industry.’ Among these amendments were added protections to boxers from ‘coercive contracts’, the implication of objective ranking systems, and the forced disclosure of certain financial information from boxing promoters and sanctioning bodies.
Exactly sixteen years later, Representative Markwayne Mullin (a Republican representing Oklahoma’s 2nd congressional district) introduced H.