{"id":209134,"date":"2025-10-18T15:55:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T15:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/209134\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T15:55:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T15:55:16","slug":"csac-unanimously-votes-to-support-ali-revival-act-zuffa-boxing-claims-its-what-muhammad-would-have-wanted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/209134\/","title":{"rendered":"CSAC unanimously votes to support Ali Revival Act, Zuffa Boxing claims \u2018it\u2019s what Muhammad would have wanted\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">California State Athletic Commission (CSAC) voted unanimously (6-0) at Wednesday\u2019s public hearing to support the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/4\/9\/24404408\/ufc-tko-proposes-amendment-muhammad-ali-act-boxing-corruption-espn-dana-white-endeavor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Muhammad Ali American Boxing Revival Act<\/a>. The legislation, spearheaded by UFC and TKO executives (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/4\/11\/24406038\/ufc-tko-pushing-muhammad-ali-act-amendment-to-award-their-own-boxing-belts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">who clearly have skin in the game<\/a>), is designed to provide professional boxers with more career opportunities, better pay, and greater safety protections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cOn behalf of Zuffa Boxing, we want to thank California State Athletic Commission for their thoughtful consideration of all voices presented in today\u2019s hearing and for their unanimous (6-0) support for the Muhammad Ali American Boxing Revival Act,\u201d ZUFFA Boxing board member, Nick Khan, said in a news release. \u201cThis bill does not eliminate or change any of the existing provisions of the original Ali Act. What we are proposing is an alternative system in which fighters will have more choice and opportunities, better pay, greater health and safety protections, and more events in which to compete.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cAlso, as the commission is fully aware, the Muhammad Ali American Boxing Revival Act is supported by Lonnie Ali, wife of the greatest, Muhammad Ali,\u201d Khan added. \u201cWe know Lonnie personally and can share with you what she said to us: \u2018This is a great opportunity for boxers, and this is what Muhammad would have wanted.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">CSAC may be voting unanimously, but the Ali family is not.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cAs an Ali, I\u2019m completely against altering the Muhammad Ali Act,\u201d Muhammad Ali\u2019s grandson and PFL fighter, Biaggio Ali Walsh, wrote on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nicoaliwalsh\/status\/1955040926403006721\" rel=\"nofollow\">social media<\/a>. \u201cMy grandfather fought for it to protect fighters from getting screwed over. Remove it, and promoters take control while fighters get paid less. Keep the act and protect the fighters who put their lives on the line.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Several dissenting opinions were on hand at this week\u2019s hearing to protest the changes, including former UFC fighters Kajan Johnson, Vinicius Quieroz, Sara McMann, Tarec Saffiedine, Hugo Viana, Carlos Newton, Matt Brown, Todd Duffee, Pat Barry, Nathan Quarry, and Brock Jardine, in addition to several prominent voices in the combat sports industry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Revival Act now awaits a hearing in the U.S. House of Representatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"California State Athletic Commission (CSAC) voted unanimously (6-0) at Wednesday\u2019s public hearing to support the Muhammad Ali American&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,30874,30367,101,914,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-209134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news-results","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}