Pro Boxing, Combat Sports Get Go Signal

The Games and Amusements Board announced yesterday that the government has approved the training and competition of professional practitioners of boxing, muay thai, kickboxing and mixed martial arts subject to strict health guidelines in areas covered by the Modified General Community Quarantine.

- Waylon Galvez

This means that Metro Manila and outlying provinces under GCQ remain off limits for now.

GAB chairman Baham Mitra bared that the tripartite Joint Administrative Order Group, which includes Philippine Sports Commission and Department of Health, has given the go signal for these combat sports to resume activities.

“Several years from now, people will study what we did for the sports re-start,” Mitra told Manila Bulletin. “And we would want to hold our heads high and say we did it the right way without shortcuts.”

More than a hundred local pro boxers, who had been active on the local scene, were affected by the pandemic.