76-9-112. Participation in an ultimate fighting match.
(1) Terms defined in Sectionapply to this section. 76-1-101.5
(2) 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; and match 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; or prohibit 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; or using direct, intentional, and forceful strikes to the eyes, groin area, adam's apple area of the neck, or temple area of the head.
(3) A violation of Subsection (2) is a class A misdemeanor.