Comments Thread For: Boxing in NY Just Got Very Expensive With New Insurance Laws

[BIGPOPPAPUMP]

New York will require $1 million coverage for life-threatening brain injuries and other new health insurance for both professional boxers and its first group of licensed mixed martial artists under regulations slated to take effect in September.
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[Lou Cipher]

As if theyre doing this for fighters. Theyre just getting in on the mandatory insurance kickback scheme. Fcuk NY they already take 40% of your purse in taxes and fees. Las Vegas is the only place to fight. And Indian reservation casinos.

[Pigeons]

Ban this bloodsport!

[AddiX]

This is why I've always said its good boxing isnt mainstream. This sport Would of been dead a long time ago.

Now its just dead in ny.

[The Problem Child]

"Health comes first, Manny Pacquiao comes 5 years later." - Floyd Mayweather Joy Sinclair

[The tucker]

Well no more boxing in NY no more.

[GoldenGlove2017]

What does this mean? Not exactly following

[OnePunch]

What does this mean? Not exactly following

it means that NY probably realized that they could no longer technically "ban" MMA, so they decided to price out pretty much every non-premium tv show, be it boxing or mma.......

[PunchyPotorff]

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Originally Posted by GoldenGlove2017 View Post
What does this mean? Not exactly following

it means that NY probably realized that they could no longer technically "ban" MMA, so they decided to price out pretty much every non-premium tv show, be it boxing or mma.......

Yep. Big money rules the nation. Say goodbye to any smaller boxing cards in NY, and even bigger cards will have less fighters on them now. Plus less fight cards in NY. IOW... THE FANS LOSE YET AGAIN. SMH

[285Kid]

No more boxing in new york that it