Comments Thread For: TKO interested in tweaking Muhammad Ali Act to award its own belts

[ELPacman]

Reading this, sounds like a slap in the face to boxing promoters around the world that love them or hate them, actually made their career about the sport.

Dana White sounds like the white man who felt left out of all the crazy money that was being thrown around in boxing from Turki. He said, damn, I need to get me involved in that somehow because I'm missing out! Then he setup a meeting to blow the dude and promised he would make something massive that caught Turki's attention. Whether or not he can deliver on that.

Though then back to my first sentence. It just sounds kind of messed up that the dudes that actually run the sport and again, whether you see that as good or bad, end up getting pushed over by this dude who basically shows up because he saw the $$$.

[PNUT901]

This " League " concept is going to bomb , just watch.

[Butt stuff]

Uh, no. UFC became the "major league" of MMA by beating out its competitors. That's the opposite of a monopoly.

Anyone can get some investors together and start a combat sports league. Which is what One Championship and PFL did.

In a monopoly, there would be some form of government/bureaucratic intervention to stop everyone else from starting their own leagues or at least stop them from putting on events in America.

There isn't - there are zero monopoly protections for combat sports.

Totally incorrect, I CBA explaining why so I call upon chat GPT:

1. Misunderstanding Monopoly: A monopoly doesn’t require government intervention to block competitors. It occurs when one company dominates a market to the extent that it can control prices, limit competition, or exclude rivals through its market power — not necessarily through legal bans.

2. Market Dominance: UFC controls the vast majority of top talent, media attention, and revenue in MMA. Even though other leagues exist (like PFL or ONE), they don’t significantly challenge UFC’s market share — which points to monopoly-like dominance.

3. Barriers to Entry: While technically anyone can start a league, UFC’s dominance creates practical barriers — like talent poaching, exclusive contracts, and media deals — that make it extremely difficult for new entrants to compete at scale.

4. Antitrust Law: U.S. antitrust law targets abuse of market power, not just total exclusion of competitors. UFC can still be accused of monopolistic behavior if it uses its position to unfairly suppress competition — which is the core issue in lawsuits against it.

[DJrabit]

White is scum just like the idiot we have as president .

[YOU WILL LOSE]

This " League " concept is going to bomb , just watch.

boxing fan 2006: this "mma" concept is going to bomb, just watch

[DClefthook]

Not going to happen. A federal law needs a majority of Reps and Senators to pass it and in this current political climate no ******** is going to vote yes and this issue isn't big enough for Repubs to risk their political life on it!

[lilacp]

Not going to happen. A federal law needs a majority of Reps and Senators to pass it and in this current political climate no ******** is going to vote yes and this issue isn't big enough for Repubs to risk their political life on it!

Exactly. Silly but not surprising that the article did not bring up this matter.

Btw, there is a caveat to your point: the executive power may go beyond Congress, which nowadays seems pretty feasible. I honestly don't know where we'll be in a couple of years.

[famicommander]

Just what boxing needs, more belts.

[diarraisagod]

I'm in favour of power shifting away from the Alphabet organisations. They have bad rankings, formed from promoters lobbying them to compete for all kinds of meaningless titles. More competition in the market would be welcome. Get them to raise their game.

I'm not pretending the UFC is perfect but it's much more competitive and desired fights more usually get made. Jon Jones is pretty much the only person I can think of that's been allowed to turn down big fights and pick his opposition.

[JeBron Lamez]

boxing fan 2006: this "mma" concept is going to bomb, just watch

WTF are you talking about?! Most boxing fans embraced MMA immediately, which was a factor in why it became so popular.

My boxing obsessed cousins & I couldn't wait to see what was on the brand new UFC1 VHS they brought round in '96 (people just called it "Ultimate Fighting" for at least a year), my personalised autographed Royce Gracie photo has been on display since '98 and YOU Sir...

...are probably thinking of Bob Arum when he said the dumb thing about MMA fighters "rolling around the floor like hoe-mow-secksualz".