5/7/2025Renumbered and Amended by Chapter 173, 2025 General Session2025Participation in an ultimate fighting match.Terms defined in Section 76-1-101.5 apply to this section.An actor commits participation in an ultimate fighting match if the actor publicizes, promotes, conducts, or engages in a live fighting match in which:an admission fee is charged;match rules permit professional contestants to use a combination of boxing, kicking, wrestling, hitting, punching, or other combative, contact techniques; andmatch rules do not:incorporate a formalized system of combative techniques against which a contestant's performance is judged to determine the prevailing contestant;divide a match into two or more equal and specified time periods for a match total of no more than 50 minutes; orprohibit contestants from:using anything that is not part of the human body, except for boxing gloves, to intentionally inflict serious bodily injury upon an opponent through direct contact or the expulsion of a projectile;striking an individual who demonstrates an inability to protect the individual's self from the advances of an opponent;biting; orusing direct, intentional, and forceful strikes to the eyes, groin area, adam's apple area of the neck, or temple area of the head.A violation of Subsection (2) is a class A misdemeanor.