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The Muhammad Ali Boxing Reform Act Hearing THE MUHAMMAD ALI BOXING REFORM ACT HEARING BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON TELECOMMUNICATIONS, TRADE, AND CONSUMER PROTECTION OF THE COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ONE HUNDRED SIXTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION ON H.R. 1832 JUNE 29, 1999 Serial No. 106±26 Printed for the use of the Committee on Commerce ( U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 57±838CC WASHINGTON : 1999 VerDate 11-SEP-98 13:24 Jul 19, 1999 Jkt 000000 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 5011 Sfmt 5011 57838.TXT HCOM2 PsN: HCOM2 COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE TOM BLILEY, Virginia, Chairman W.J. ``BILLY'' TAUZIN, Louisiana JOHN D. DINGELL, Michigan MICHAEL G. OXLEY, Ohio HENRY A. WAXMAN, California MICHAEL BILIRAKIS, Florida EDWARD J. MARKEY, Massachusetts JOE BARTON, Texas RALPH M. HALL, Texas FRED UPTON, Michigan RICK BOUCHER, Virginia CLIFF STEARNS, Florida EDOLPHUS TOWNS, New York PAUL E. GILLMOR, Ohio FRANK PALLONE, Jr., New Jersey Vice Chairman SHERROD BROWN, Ohio JAMES C. GREENWOOD, Pennsylvania BART GORDON, Tennessee CHRISTOPHER COX, California PETER DEUTSCH, Florida NATHAN DEAL, Georgia BOBBY L. RUSH, Illinois STEVE LARGENT, Oklahoma ANNA G. ESHOO, California RICHARD BURR, North Carolina RON KLINK, Pennsylvania BRIAN P. BILBRAY, California BART STUPAK, Michigan ED WHITFIELD, Kentucky ELIOT L. ENGEL, New York GREG GANSKE, Iowa THOMAS C. SAWYER, Ohio CHARLIE NORWOOD, Georgia ALBERT R. WYNN, Maryland TOM A. COBURN, Oklahoma GENE GREEN, Texas RICK LAZIO, New York KAREN MCCARTHY, Missouri BARBARA CUBIN, Wyoming TED STRICKLAND, Ohio JAMES E. ROGAN, California DIANA DEGETTE, Colorado JOHN SHIMKUS, Illinois THOMAS M. BARRETT, Wisconsin HEATHER WILSON, New Mexico BILL LUTHER, Minnesota JOHN B. SHADEGG, Arizona LOIS CAPPS, California CHARLES W. ``CHIP'' PICKERING, Mississippi VITO FOSSELLA, New York ROY BLUNT, Missouri ED BRYANT, Tennessee ROBERT L. EHRLICH, Jr., Maryland JAMES E. DERDERIAN, Chief of Staff JAMES D. BARNETTE, General Counsel REID P.F. STUNTZ, Minority Staff Director and Chief Counsel SUBCOMMITTEE ON TELECOMMUNICATIONS, TRADE, AND CONSUMER PROTECTION W.J. ``BILLY'' TAUZIN, Louisiana, Chairman MICHAEL G. OXLEY, Ohio, EDWARD J. MARKEY, Massachusetts Vice Chairman RICK BOUCHER, Virginia CLIFF STEARNS, Florida BART GORDON, Tennessee PAUL E. GILLMOR, Ohio BOBBY L. RUSH, Illinois CHRISTOPHER COX, California ANNA G. ESHOO, California NATHAN DEAL, Georgia ELIOT L. ENGEL, New York STEVE LARGENT, Oklahoma ALBERT R. WYNN, Maryland BARBARA CUBIN, Wyoming BILL LUTHER, Minnesota JAMES E. ROGAN, California RON KLINK, Pennsylvania JOHN SHIMKUS, Illinois THOMAS C. SAWYER, Ohio HEATHER WILSON, New Mexico GENE GREEN, Texas CHARLES W. ``CHIP'' PICKERING, KAREN MCCARTHY, Missouri Mississippi JOHN D. DINGELL, Michigan, VITO FOSSELLA, New York (Ex Officio) ROY BLUNT, Missouri ROBERT L. EHRLICH, Jr., Maryland TOM BLILEY, Virginia, (Ex Officio) (II) VerDate 11-SEP-98 13:24 Jul 19, 1999 Jkt 000000 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6011 Sfmt 0486 57838.TXT HCOM2 PsN: HCOM2 C O N T E N T S Page Testimony of: Bynum, Arlen D., Legal Counselor, WBC ...................................................... 7 Daniels, Alfonzo, Middleweight Boxer ............................................................ 14 Holden, Tony, President, Next Media ............................................................. 11 Goossen, Dan, President, America Presents .................................................. 10 Sirb, Gregory P., President, Association of Boxing Commissions ................ 5 Material submitted for the record by: (III) 2 VerDate 11-SEP-98 13:24 Jul 19, 1999 Jkt 000000 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 0486 Sfmt 0486 57838.TXT HCOM2 PsN: HCOM2 THE MUHAMMAD ALI BOXING REFORM ACT TUESDAY, JUNE 29, 1999 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE, SUBCOMMITTEE ON TELECOMMUNICATIONS, TRADE, AND CONSUMER PROTECTION Washington, DC. The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 11 a.m., in room 2123, Rayburn House Office Building, Hon. W.J. ``Billy'' Tauzin (chairman) presiding. Members present: Representatives Tauzin, Oxley and Shimkus. Also present: Representative Hall. Staff present: Robert Gordon, majority counsel; Bruce Gwinn, mi- nority counsel; and Michael Flood, legislative clerk. Mr. TAUZIN. The committee will please come to order. Last month the Los Angeles Times revealed the results of their investigation into widespread abuses in boxing. Sadly the Times found that the sport of boxing continues to be pummeled by allega- tions of corruption and conflicts of interest. Boxing rankings are sold by sanctioning bodies, promoters throw conventions for the sanctioning bodies as thinly described bribes, and boxing managers make payments of up to $20,000 in cash to improve their boxers' rankings and get more lucrative cable TV fights. Similar concerns have been echoed by the leaders of the sport. Former heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali has called for Fed- eral legislation to protect boxers from the, ``dishonest ways of some promoters and managers.'' Boxing News has stated that, ``pure un- varnished greed is killing the game. Boxing desperately needs a Federal law to cut down on the terrible corruption.'' Another article noted that Americans have more rights than any people on earth, but our fight game has degenerated into such a dirty and incestuous business that when you make noise, you get blackballed. Well, we are going to make some noise today, and we are going to keep on making noise until we can turn the sport around and hopefully reestablish boxing as the honest and clean sport that so many of us grew up admiring and appreciating in our lives. I, as a caveat, will tell you that I grew up as a young boy living in poor, rural Louisiana, and the first television that came to our community came to my grandfather's house. It was boxing that drew me to that television set with my dad, and it was a wonderful bonding experience as my dad and grandfather and I and friends from the community gathered around that only television set in the whole community and we watched the fights. (1) VerDate 11-SEP-98 13:24 Jul 19, 1999 Jkt 000000 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 6633 Sfmt 6633 57838.TXT HCOM2 PsN: HCOM2 2 I can't help but really feel a pain when we see the kind of accusa- tions that the sport is now receiving in the press and from those who have appreciated it, such as Muhammad Ali. I would like to welcome our distinguished panel of witnesses today. We have two boxing promoters, Mr. Dan Goossen and Tony Holden, who can help us understand the pressures to influence a boxer's rating and whether the Times allegations have any merit. Mr. Arlen ``Spider'' Bynum is joining us from the World Boxing Council to present the perspectives of a rating and sanctioning or- ganization. And Mr. Greg Sirb, president of the Association of Box- ing Commissioners will update us on what success the States have had in implementing our earlier legislation, what additional im- provements, standards are necessary. And we are fortunate to have a great boxer who can give us the inside-the-ring perspective, Mr. Alfonzo Daniels, a powerful middle- weight fighter on the professional circuit. We hope this panel will be able to talk to us, tell us in their own words why boxing has reached what Muhammad Ali has called, quote, its lowest point, unquote, and what we can do to help restore its greatness. We would also be interested in any comments by the panel on the recent Holyfield-Lewis fight. Just last week a WBC promotional and management team was subpoenaed to appear before a United States grand jury investigating allegedly suspicious fight deals. The subpoena related to the decision by an International Boxing Federation judge in the recent heavyweight unification fight to award the title to Holyfield, the IBF champion, instead of to Lewis, the WBC champion who ended up by almost every single account as a clear apparent winner, according to most of the boxing com- mentators and, I might add, most of the public who watched that fight. Even if the fight were honestly scored, I think we need to under- stand from our witnesses whether there was any conflicts of inter- est in that fight that should be prohibited in the future, and can these practices be achieved through self-policing, or do we need congressional reforms to enable the States to clean up the sport, root out the corruption, protect the sport, enhance it not only for the participants, but for all of us who have enjoyed it for so many years. The Chair is now pleased to yield to my friend from Texas Mr. Hall, himself a boxing addict and a man who confessed to me 1 dayÐI don't know if I should say this in public, RalphÐthat he had the chance to sign up a young fellow by the name of Cassius Clay and passed him up. Mr. Hall. Mr. HALL. That is how smart I am. Also my son brought me a part of a garden hose that he had put around his arm and swung it around, and I whipped him with the rest of the garden hose, and they came out with that Hoola Hoop about 3 years later. I am honored to introduce Arlen Bynum, Spider; everybody calls him Spider Bynum. He is probably the best known figure in our State that is involved with boxing and has been on the good clean side of boxing. But I have known him, Mr. Chairman, for long time. And I have been knocked around by him in the courtroom. He is VerDate 11-SEP-98 13:24 Jul 19, 1999 Jkt 000000 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 6633 Sfmt 6633 57838.TXT HCOM2 PsN: HCOM2 3 a highly recognized attorney there, and his firm is one of the better firms in the Dallas and Texas area. But I think I will introduce him about boxing today. He has been a fighter. He has trained fighters. He has refereed. You have seen him on national television refereeing some of the major fights of this country. He has been a Commission ofÐmember of Texas Box- ing Commission, I think they call it, licensing and regulations down there now.
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