Sport Minister Andrew Boitchenko said last week the review was ongoing.
“We are reviewing the options right now across the province and country to see how other jurisdictions are handling this,” he said.
“It is on our radar and we are currently talking to other organizations to see what’s the best way to deal with this.”
Before Dousuah’s death, an inquiry report into the 2017 death of Edmonton boxer Tim Hague recommended the province regulate combative sporting events instead of allowing them to operate through a patchwork of commissions.
Alberta is the only province in Canada that doesn’t have a provincial regulatory body for combative sports.
Ultra MMA, which organized the Enoch event, is linked to U.K.-based Ultra Events Ltd., a company previously cited for safety concerns in the death of a novice boxer named Dominic Chapman at a 2022 charity match in the United Kingdom.
A June 2024 report into Chapman’s death by a senior coroner in Worcestershire, U.K., urged Ultra Events Ltd. to improve its safety standards.
“Chapman sustained a fatal head injury in the course of a charity boxing match organized by Ultra Events Ltd.,” coroner David Reid says in the report, which was released almost six months before Dousuah died.
“In my opinion, there is a concern that future deaths will occur unless action is taken.”
In response to the report, Ultra Events Ltd. promised stricter record keeping of weight discrepancies between fighters, stricter rules on risk assessments and event-specific medical plans.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 22, 2025.
Fakiha Baig, The Canadian Press