Health and Safety of Professional Boxing

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Excerpt from Health and Safety of Professional Boxing: Hearings Before the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, Second Session, January 20, and September 22, 1994 The committee met, pursuant to notice, at 9:30 a.m. in the Convention Center Board Room, 3150 Paradise Road, Las Vegas, NV, Hon. Richard H. Bryan, presiding. Staff members assigned to this hearing: Moses Boyd, senior counsel, and Sherman Joyce, minority professional staff member. Opening Statement Of Senator Bryan Senator Bryan. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to today's field hearing by the U.S. Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee. Today's hearing will examine health and safety issues relating to professional boxing. We will be reviewing the role of State governments in establishing health and safety regulations, and their efforts to monitor the health and safety of professional boxers in ways in which health and safety provisions for professional boxers can be enhanced. We have invited a number of distinguished witnesses who have a wealth of experience in the sport of boxing to join with us this morning and to share their views with the subcommittee. Although techniques and styles of boxing have changed over the years, boxing today continues to be a major international attraction. Unquestionably one of the most popular sports, boxing is one of the marquee events at the summer Olympic games. Boxing is also one of the premier sports in the United States. Statistics show that 65 percent of all professional boxing events in the world take place in the United States, and 85 percent of all boxing revenue is generated here. Live and telecast events have tens of millions of fans. ESPN and USA cable networks, the leading television outlets for professional fighting have combined subscriptions of 120 million. Many of our Nation's leading sports figures come from the sport of boxing, including such legends as Joe Lewis, Jack Dempsey, Rocky Marciano, Sugar Ray Robinson, Mohammed Ali, and more recently, Sugar Ray Leonard. It is fitting that we hold this hearing here in Las Vegas, which is recognized internationally as one of the key sites for major boxing events. Since 1987, Las Vegas has been the host of 17 major title bouts. These events alone were attended by more than 187, 000 fans, with an estimated impact of nearly $89 million. 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.