update April 11, 2016 – Today it was revealed that Gunn’s bout will be at the Miccosukee resort & Gaming casino in higher Miami.
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Update April 6, 2016 – Whatever compensation will be overseeing this event, it will not be the Florida specify Boxing compensation who have replied as complies with –
Mr. Magraken,
This is in response to your recent article titled, “Legal Bare-knuckle Boxing coming to Florida?”.
Bare-knuckle fighting is unlawful in Florida. As such, the Florida specify Boxing compensation will not permission a bare-knuckle fighting event. anyone who participates in or organizes such an event is subject to administrative as well as criminal penalties.
As you may be aware, tribal lands are sovereign territory. A bare-knuckle event happening on tribal land would autumn outside of the Boxing Commission’s jurisdiction.
Thank you for this chance to respond.
Paul Waters
Executive Director
Florida specify Boxing Commission
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Overshadowed by this week’s major battle Camiseta Selección de fútbol de Portugal sports regulatory news, the imminent legalization of Mixed Martial Arts in new York State, is perhaps an similarly interesting advancement – the prospective legalization of bare knuckle boxing in Florida.
For months bare knuckle boxing champion Bobby Gunn has been suggesting that a us specify athletic compensation was amenable to sanctioning a bare knuckle boxing event. Today Gunn tweeted a short clip from a press seminar indicating that Florida will be the hold to the long rumored bare knuckle bout –
Section bkb in Camiseta Feyenoord the specify of Florida more info soon to follow. pic.twitter.com/4FXcUljC5F
— official Bobby Gunn (@RealBobbyGunn) March 23, 2016
In the clip its noted that “On June 11, 2016 we are extremely delighted to reveal that we will be coming out of hiding as well as we will have the very first legal sanctioned bare knuckle boxing match since 2011 in the united states of America in the excellent specify of Florida”
The above clip does not make it remove if the Florida specify Boxing compensation will be regulating the event or if the sanctioning body will be one more entity such as a Tribal athletic Commission.
I have reached out to both Bobby Gunn as well as to the Florida specify Boxing compensation for comment as well as will update this article if/when they reply.
While a typical preliminary reaction is to view bare knuckle fighting as perhaps a more barbaric version of combative sport, counter-intuitively eliminating gloves from the equation likely reduces the rate Camiseta Selección de fútbol de Túnez of traumatic brain injuries sustained by competitors.
As discussed in 2014, when gloves were added to MMA the knockout rate from punches increased tenfold. Removing gloves from battle sports boosts the rate of fractured hands as well as superficial lacerations to competitors, as well as perhaps eye injuries, the removal of gloves from the sport can reduce head trauma. If government as well as combative sport stakeholders evaluation the rules of the sport with brain injury in mind the data is relatively remove that gloves protect the hands, not the brain.
This is an fascinating advancement that I will continue to keep an eye on as well as update this article when more regulatory info comes to light.
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