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15 U.S.C. § 6304 — Safety standards
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No person may arrange, promote, organize, produce, or fight in a professional boxing match without meeting each of the following requirements or an alternative requirement in effect under regulations of a boxing commission that provides equivalent protection of the health and safety of boxers:
(1) A physical examination of each boxer by a physician certifying whether or not the boxer is physically fit to safely compete, copies of which must be provided to the boxing commission.
(2) Except as otherwise expressly provided under regulation of a boxing commission promulgated subsequent to October 9, 1996, an ambulance or medical personnel with appropriate resuscitation equipment continuously present on site.
(3) A physician continuously present at ringside.
(4) Health insurance for each boxer to provide medical coverage for any injuries sustained in the match.
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No person may arrange, promote, organize, produce, or fight in a professional boxing match without meeting each of the following requirements or an alternative requirement in effect under regulations of a boxing commission that provides equivalent protection of the health and safety of boxers:
(1) A physical examination of each boxer by a physician certifying whether or not the boxer is physically fit to safely compete, copies of which must be provided to the boxing commission.
(2) Except as otherwise expressly provided under regulation of a boxing commission promulgated subsequent to October 9, 1996, an ambulance or medical personnel with appropriate resuscitation equipment continuously present on site.
(3) A physician continuously present at ringside.
(4) Health insurance for each boxer to provide medical coverage for any injuries sustained in the match.
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For purposes of this chapter:
(1) **Boxer** — The term “boxer” means an individual who fights in a professional boxing match.
(2) **Boxing commission**
(A) 11 So in original. No subpar. (B) has been enacted. The term “boxing commission” means an entity authorized under State law to regulate professional boxing matches.
(3) **Boxer registry** — The term “boxer registry” means any entity certified by the Association of Boxing Commissions for the purposes of maintaining records and identification of boxers.
(4) **Licensee** — The term “licensee” means an individual who serves as a trainer, second, or cut man for a boxer.
(5) **Manager** — The term “manager” means a person who receives compensation for service as an agent or representative of a boxer.
(6) **Matchmaker** — The term “matchmaker” means a person that proposes, selects, and arranges the boxers to participate in a professional boxing match.
(7) **Physician** — The term “physician” means a doctor of medicine legally authorized to practice medicine by the State in which the physician performs such function or action.
(8) **Professional boxing match** — The term “professional boxing match” means a boxing contest held in the United States between individuals for financial compensation. Such term does not include a boxing contest that is regulated by an amateur sports organization.
(9) **Promoter** — The term “promoter” means the person primarily responsible for organizing, promoting, and producing a professional boxing match. The term “promoter” does not include a hotel, casino, resort, or other commercial establishment hosting or sponsoring a professional boxing match unless—
(A) the hotel, casino, resort, or other commercial establishment is primarily responsible for organizing, promoting, and produc
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TITLE 15—COMMERCE AND TRADE
§ 6305
tion to establish uniform and appropriate business
practices and ethical standards. This has led to re-
peated occurrences of disreputable and coercive busi-
ness practices in the boxing industry, to the det-
riment of professional boxers nationwide.
‘‘(2) State officials are the proper regulators of pro-
fessional boxing events, and must protect the welfare
of professional boxers and serve the public interest by
closely supervising boxing activity in their jurisdic-
tion. State boxing commissions do not currently re-
ceive adequate information to determine whether
boxers competing in their jurisdiction are being sub-
jected to contract terms and business practices which
may violate State regulations, or are onerous and
confiscatory.
‘‘(3) Promoters who engage in illegal, coercive, or
unethical business practices can take advantage of
the lack of equitable business standards in the sport
by holding boxing events in States with weaker regu-
latory oversight.
‘‘(4) The sanctioning organizations which have pro-
liferated in the boxing industry have not established
credible and objective criteria to rate professional
boxers, and operate with virtually no industry or
public oversight. Their ratings are susceptible to ma-
nipulation, have deprived boxers of fair opportunities
for advancement, and have undermined public con-
fidence in the integrity of the sport.
‘‘(5) Open competition in the professional boxing in-
dustry has been significantly interfered with by re-
strictive and anticompetitive business practices of
certain promoters and sanctioning bodies, to the det-
riment of the athletes and the ticket-buying public.
Common practices of promoters and sanctioning or-
ganizations represent restraints of inter
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