Senate Introduces Revised Ali Boxing Revival Act to Allow Unified Boxing Organizations

Overview

• Senators Ted Cruz and Jacky Rosen formally introduced the Senate version of the Muhammad Ali American Boxing Revival Act on Thursday, July 30, 2026, setting up committee review and a later floor vote.
• The bill creates Unified or United Boxing Organizations (UBOs), entities that could sign fighters to exclusive deals and run promotional rankings and titles that now sit outside promoters.
• The Senate text caps a fighter’s first promotional contract at three years, allows later contracts up to six years, and expands the negotiation window to 90 days before a deal expires.
• Sponsors added ranking and governance disclosure rules that require UBOs to publish ranking criteria, bylaws, appeals procedures and identities of ranking officials and to submit that information to the FTC and the Association of Boxing Commissions while retaining a firewall between UBOs and managers.
• The measure must clear the Commerce Committee and be reconciled with the House-passed March bill before Congress ends in early January, and critics including Muhammad Ali’s grandson and others warn reported backing from TKO could concentrate promotional power and weaken the original Ali Act’s separation protections.