Age for amateur fights could be lowered
Amateur fights have been allowed to take place in Grande Prairie for just over a year and the Combative Sports Commission would like to tweak the bylaw.
They are hoping to bump the minimum age for amateur MMA bouts to 16-years-old from the cap of 18-years-old that it is now. Kevin O’Toole, Chair of the Commission and City Councillor, explains the proposed change would bring the Swan City in line with others in the province and across the country.
“There is a standard age that everyone sort of follows and we [are] just up a little bit higher than that. Individuals that were competing in other provinces could do it at 16. They couldn’t come to Grande Prairie.”
This will give fighters an opportunity to get experience when they are younger, according to O’Toole.