Senators Pushing Bill To Eliminate Fraud In Boxing
 

:mad: Give me a break! Here we go again with our Senator John McCain doing the peoples work with the help of Harry Reid.
The fact that Pacquiao is a Congressman in the Phillippines, not to mention he's the one that LOST the darn fight makes this a sham.
Again, our great hero, John McCain being bent over by a Dem. This time by maybe the most partisan majority leader ever who is trying to protect his multi-million dollar casino special interests. Here we go again with bigger government compliments of the "conservative", Senator McCain. :http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/201...tml?xid=si_mma

That John McCain! He sure is a maverick!

John

On its face, I don't like the idea nor do I like what became of John McCain in the past several years. That said, if it is to survive, boxing may need to be saved from itself. If trust and accompanying interest in the sport goes down any further, the sport will be dead and gone in favor of MMA. Accordingly, the contents of the proposed legislation calls for:

...all referees and judges participating in a championship or a professional fight lasting 10 rounds or more would have to be fully registered and licensed by the commission. A sanctioning organization could provide the names of judges and referees it considers qualified for that caliber bout, but only the commission could appoint judges and referees to participate in the matches.

I don't find these requirements particularly onerous and threatening. Then again, I really don't give a sh!t one way or another. I'm not sure why McCain does.

Yeah...he sure is. :(

And there ya have it... +1

Until we can get the Coliseum I could care less about boxing or MMA! I wan't thumbs up/down or it's all bullshit. No need for a bunch of scoring or judges then.

And on a side note, how can Harry Reid (or any other Mormon or Catholic for that matter) still be in the Mormon church and vote as he does. His tithe's must be extra large ;)

Couldn't care less about boxing, or what tha doddering old man is up too. He needs to retire and go hang out at the VA hospital with the rest of the PTSD crowd.

Fraud out of boxing? Yeah, right!:rolleyes:

More BS from the senate.

This is not the job of government. People are intelligent enough to learn whether or not decisions are poor and the sport will eventually lose its followers and income stream. BTW, I have noticed much more sportsmanlike behavior in the MMA than in boxing. I gave up on McCain after his first run for President.

Could they not make better use of their time by combatting fraud in government? They could outlaw bribery (lobbying) for a start

Agreed, not the job of government. Nor is steriods in baseball, or any of that.

As for the second sentence.....Boxing has ALWAYS been corrupt and around as a major sport for what, a hundred years or more? The "market" doesn't care about corruption.

If it did, would we still have WWF?:rolleyes:

I'm just sayin'.

Because of his "black love child"?

John

This is stupid and I love boxing. It has always been rigged.

I prefer the lighter weight fighters. More energy in the fight. You can tell when the fight is real. It is the only reason I subscribe to HBO.

The gubmint needs to get it's nose out of professional sports. It is what it is.

Chuckle :)

I suspect this is Harry Reid trying to save boxing from itself as many (most?) important boxing matches take place in Nevada, including the Pacquiao vs Bradley bout. I'm not sure who I hold in greater contempt - professional boxing, Reid or McCain. Actually, I am sure it isn't professional boxing.

That was my point. If it doesn't have anything to do with people fighting, Old John doesn't seem to care. :confused:

+1...great post.

Much obliged, DJ.

Reid was an amateur boxer I believe.

Kind of hard to believe, looking at him now. But you're right....he was.

I used to race bicycles, once completed a 100k race in under 2hr-50min.

(Pictured below, circa 1997.)

Now my fat ass can barely make it around the block without my knee blowing out on me.

At least the Fools on the Hill have chosen to drop their probe into the NFL's bounty program(s).

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2012/...ty-durbin.html

My thoughts exactly.

Now here is summat they might investigate.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politi...g0V_story.html