This is something that's been a long time coming. Many owners of APBTs have been displeased with the Am Bully & pull dogs being called and registered as APBT. While this has been a problem for a long time it's been slow going to get change. UKC did recognize the American Bully as a separate breed in 2013 and ADBA just recently announced plans to do the same. However the XL pull dogs were not addressed with this change since they are not American Bullies. It is primarily thanks to the publicity of "The Hulk" and his unscrupulous owners/breeders that petitioning to remove these dogs from APBT registration really kicked off. I don't believe the UKC has yet responded but the ADBA does plan to make this change. This is wonderful news to the APBT community.