No Holds Barred: Labor Day Special on Rights of Fighters, with Stewart
Acuff of AFL-CIO

On this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman focuses on the
need for fighters in sports like boxing and mixed martial arts to
unite and struggle together to protect and expand their rights.

We open discussing story about a lawsuit filed by the sports licensing
group Fighters Inc., alleging that Electronic Arts (EA) used the names
and likenesses of various professional boxers in a video game in
violation of a group licensing program which Fighters Inc. claims to
have established (http://thefightnerd.com/ea-sued-over-fight-night-
round-4/). We then go on to discuss how various attempts to organize
boxers in a union over the past decade have failed, and how the media
covering combat sports has generally reflected the views of the
promoters and not the fighters.

We next go on to hear an important excerpt of a discussion we had with
Stewart Acuff (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stewart-acuff), AFL-CIO
Director of Organizing, and Bob Carson. We spoke about the need to
organize fighters in sports like boxing and mixed martial arts, and
what role the AFL-CIO might play in that. You can also hear the entire
interview, which focused on the current direction and tasks of the
labor movement in America, on the Carson's Corner political show
(http://bobcarson13.podomatic.com/entry/2009-09-05T22_16_13-07_00).

Next, we continued our series of media appearances as a guest Sunday
on The Boxing Truth Radio. We ripped HBO for how it presented the
issue of fighter Juan Manuel Marquez drinking his own urine on their
Mayweather-Marquez 24/7 infomercial, lambasted the obsolete pay-per-
view business model, and more. You can also hear the entire September
6 edition of The Boxing Truth Radio here: http://www.theboxingtruth.com/.

Last but not least, we discuss the mismanagement of televised boxing
cards this past weekend and next, as the networks and promoters
stubbornly persist in business models which provide the least exposure
and income for most fighters, while lining the pockets of the
shrinking group of executives at networks which still telecast boxing.
We discuss the replay of the Roy Jones Jr.-Jeff Lacy fight and the
bout between 19-year-old phenom Marvin Sonsona and Jose Lopez last
weekend, as well as the glut of premium and pay-per-view fights all
scheduled for the same time this coming Saturday, September 12.

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