The podcast discusses growing concerns over the need for updated legislation to regulate combat activities like 'run it straight' and MMA, highlighting safety risks, gaps in the 1981 Boxing and Wrestling Act, and the need for medical oversight and police enforcement.
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Yeah, I think that this um law change is not just about run it straight. There are these all these new combat activities that fall through the gap in a 44-year-old law. It's not effective for those. So we actually want to see um, you know, a law change that affects everything. Proper permits, genuine medical oversight, and real police powers. Any law change needs to have teeth to be able to respond to these new combat activities that we're seeing, you know, um in many places. What are these combat activities? So we've got um MMA that is not covered by the current um wrestling laws. Um we've also got these other activities like King of the Streets being organized. Um, you know, we wouldn't call them sports. We think that they're just um, you know, really um brain injury events, to be honest. Um, but I think that the law change isn't just about run it straight, it is responding to a number of these combat events.
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