New rules set safety standards and pay for professional boxers.
H.R. 4624 — Muhammad Ali American Boxing Revival Act of 2026 · Filed by Brian Jack (R-GA) · 13 cosponsors · Introduced Jul 23, 2025 · Passed chamber
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What it does
The bill creates a new type of boxing group called a Unified Boxing Group. These groups must pay boxers at least $200 per round. They must follow strict safety rules. The rules include extra doctors at fights and health checks for older boxers. They also cover health checks for boxers who get knocked out, drug tests, and health insurance. Boxers can sign deals for no more than 6 years. They have 30 days to talk to other groups about new deals.
Who it affects
Boxers gain set pay, health insurance, and health care. They also get limits on how long they must stay with one group. Boxing groups must spend more money on safety and health staff. The public sees safer boxing matches with more health protection.
One thing to notice
The bill requires boxing groups to pay for extra doctors, extra vehicles with doctors, and health staff. They must also pay for training spaces and health insurance. These costs may make it hard for small boxing groups to start.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
13 cosponsors: 8 Democrats, 5 Republicans.
- Jul 23, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Jul 23, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Energy and Commerce and House Committee on Education and Workforce · Congress.gov: “Referred to the Committee on Education and Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and…”
- Jan 21, 2026 — Markup held in committee · Congress.gov: “Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held”
- Jan 21, 2026 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 30 - 4”
- Mar 24, 2026 — Passed the House · Congress.gov: “On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H2641-2643)”
- Mar 24, 2026 — Floor vote scheduled · Congress.gov: “Mr. Walberg moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
3 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 4 reports from Dec 2025 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $2,180,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 1 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 61% of bills with any report.
Brian Jack, who sponsored the bill, received $945,303 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- American Association for Justice — $1,840,000 in 1 report
- Zuffa and Affiliates — $300,000 in 2 reports
- Boxing Opco, LLC — $40,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- Unified Boxing Group — A new type of boxing group that follows the bill's safety and pay rules.
- drug tests — Checks to stop boxers from using banned drugs.
- health insurance — Money paid to boxers if they get hurt while boxing.
- health checks — Tests to make sure boxers are fit to fight.
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (23,916 characters) on Jul 6, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 16,938 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Dec 2025 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 20, 2026 · page rendered 2026-11-05.
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