Ex-Elks CEO to lead provincial look into combative sports safety [Video]

A former president and chief executive officer of the Edmonton Elks has been appointed to head a provincial effort to improve safety in Alberta combative sports.

Victor Cui will lead the initiative announced in a media release Tuesday afternoon by Joseph Schow, minister of tourism and sport. Cui, who ran the Canadian Football League’s Elks starting in 2022 before he was fired partway through the 2023 season, has a background in combative sports, having co-founded and helmed One Championship, a mixed martial arts (MMA) outfit based in Singapore.

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The move comes a little more than a week after the death of Trokon Dousuah following an amateur MMA bout held at the Enoch Community Centre and a month after the judge leading a provincial fatality inquiry into the 2017 death of boxer Timothy Hague recommended changesto how the sport is regulated …