Examining Professional Boxing Are Further Reforms Needed Hearing Serial No 108 127 Committee On Energy Commerce House Of Repr

Author : United States Congress House Commerce
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781332277377
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book Professional Boxing Corporation written by United States Congress House Commerce and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Professional Boxing Corporation: Hearing to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Competitiveness of the Committee on Energy and Commerce House of Representatives The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 10 a.m., in room 2123, Rayburn House Office Building, Hon. Cardiss Collins (chairwoman) presiding. Mrs. Collins. Good morning. This hearing of the Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and Competitiveness will come to order. I want to welcome everybody to this morning's hearing on H.R. 2607, that has been introduced by my friend and colleague Bill Richardson. This legislation would establish a Professional Boxing Corporation that would develop uniform national rules and regulations to protect the health and safety of boxers. For many, the notion that boxing can be safe is a contradiction in and of itself. In reality, boxing is not now, has never been and will never be totally safe. The very essence of boxing is dangerous; one person pitting his strength and courage against another. Over the fast 70 years, estimates are that about 500 boxers have actually died as a result of injuries sustained in the ring. However, those athletes who choose to take up a career in boxing today face far greater dangers than even the sport itself holds. The fact is that the health and safety regulation of boxing varies dramatically from State to State, and in some cases, even from city to city. Some jurisdictions do not require that boxers be licensed. Others do not require that boxers be covered by health or life insurance. Some States do not even have a Boxing Commission and fights have been held without an ambulance and emergency medical equipment at ringside. Virtually all boxing regulatory authorities lack comprehensive, up-to-date information concerning the health and won/loss records of the boxers they are responsible for regulating and protecting. Currently, there is no way to ensure that information about a boxer who is knocked out one night in one State will ever be communicated to another jurisdiction where that same boxer may seek to fight only days later. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.