Loyola of Los Angeles Entertainment Law Review Volume 36 Number 3 Article 1 Spring 2016 The Twelfth Round: Will Boxing Save Itself? Katherine Figueroa Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/elr Part of the Entertainment, Arts, and Sports Law Commons Recommended Citation Katherine Figueroa, The Twelfth Round: Will Boxing Save Itself?, 36 Loy. L.A. Ent. L. Rev. 171 (2016). Available at: https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/elr/vol36/iss3/1 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Law Reviews at Digital Commons @ Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School. It has been accepted for inclusion in Loyola of Los Angeles Entertainment Law Review by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons@Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. FIGUEROA_FINALX2 (DO NOT DELETE) 6/1/2016 12:06 PM THE TWELFTH ROUND: WILL BOXING SAVE ITSELF? KATHERINE FIGUEROA* In 2010, Sergio “Maravilla” Martinez was stripped from his WBC middleweight title belt that was then easily handed over to a boxing favorite. In 2015, two big promotional companies, Top Rank Inc. and Golden Boy Promotions, filed similar claims against manager and advisor Al Haymon accusing him of unfair and anticompetitive business practices. These incidents make one long-standing point clear: professional boxing’s current structure is an abyss of deception and corruption. Corruption is not only harmful to those intended to be harmed; corruptive practices also diminish the quality, creditability, and integrity of the sport. However, corruption in the sport of boxing is but a novel issue.