“Should you made the Muhammad Ali Act to avoid wasting or to look out for the boxers, why would you alter it for a promoter?” Jones said to Fight Hub TV.
“You principally change it back, saying, ‘Okay, you set these security bars on the constructing so nobody can break in. But since he lives within the neighborhood now, we all know he likes to interrupt in stores, we’ll give him the important thing.’ Come on, bro. Really?”
Jones repeatedly pointed to the UFC model as something boxing should avoid, arguing that fighters eventually lose negotiating power once one company gains an excessive amount of control.
“A lot of the fighters that retire from UFC, even ones that come to boxing to make their real payday, they construct up a reputation in UFC but they couldn’t make a payday,” Jones said.
“So, you would like me to bring that very same old [stuff] to boxing? Why would I try this?”
The Hall of Famer then warned that fighters could eventually change into depending on one organization controlling title opportunities and profession advancement.
“They going to be principally slaves. They going to be own sheep,” Jones said. “You don’t get to choose what you wear no more. You don’t get to choose who you aren’t any more. You might have no identity.”
Jones also criticized the opportunity of one system controlling championship opportunities.
“Should you piss them off, you’ll never get a title shot,” Jones said.
“You bought to kiss their ass or you may’t fight.”
Jones argued that boxing’s history and structure would eventually disappear if sanctioning bodies lose influence and one organization gains full control over championship recognition.
“History goes to be erased,” Jones said.
“There going to be no such thing as WBC, WBA, IBF and WBO champ no more.”
