Boxing Reform Meets the UFC Model? Zuffa-Backed Ali Revival Act Advances (What It Really Does)

Tonight on BNP™ Fast Break, we’re speed-running a very unglamorous sentence that could change a very glamorous sport: the Muhammad Ali American Boxing Revival Act just advanced out of the House Education & the Workforce Committee 30–4.

At a high level, the bill is pitched as “modernization + safety + economic opportunity.” The fight (pun fully intended) is whether it’s also a structural rewrite that makes boxing look more like a centralized league model—hello, Unified Boxing Organizations (UBOs)—and whether that power shift helps fighters… or concentrates leverage.

What’s in the mix (highlights):

  • UBOs: a parallel organizational lane to existing sanctioning bodies (and a possible new gravity center for the sport).

  • Minimum pay bump: $200 per round minimum. Insurance floor: $50,000 minimum medical coverage for bout injuries (plus accidental death coverage).

  • Contract rule (as reported): contracts no longer than six years.

  • “Final 30 days” provision (as reported): fighters can contact rival UBOs/promoters in the last 30 days of an existing contract.

  • Anti-“benching” compensation (as reported): at least $2,000 if a fighter goes six months without a bout.

The big question: Is this fighter-protection legislation… or the legal architecture for a new boxing “league” era backed by Zuffa Boxing / TKO?

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