Professional Fighting Championship

**Professional Fighting Championship**
 **Key people** |  Thor Oddvarson (President)

The **Professional Fighting Championship**, commonly abbreviated as the **PFC**, is a Mixed Martial Arts promotion company based in San Andreas.  Thor Oddvarson serves as the president of the PFC.

Inspired by the UFC, the PFC held its first competition in Vinewood, Los Santos on December 9th, 2022.

## History of the PFC

### December 9th, 2022

PFC 100
**Match Card Lost**

### December 23rd, 2022

PFC 101
 Jaxon Liberty | Owen Hill | Jaxon Liberty

### January 7th, 2023

PFC 102
 Owen Hill | Hamilton B. Urglar | Hamilton B. Urglar

### January 28th, 2023

PFC 103
 Jack Beaver | Owen Hill | Owen Hill

## Rules

### Rounds

Every round in PFC competition is 60 Seconds in duration. Title matches have five such rounds, and non-title matches have three. There is a thirty-second rest period between rounds.

### Cage

The PFC stages bouts in an eight-sided enclosure; "The Octagon." Originally, SEG trademarked The Octagon and prevented other mixed martial arts promotions from using the same type of cage, but in 2001, Zuffa gave its permission for other promotions to use octagonal cages (while reserving use of the name "Octagon"), reasoning that the young sport needed uniformity to continue to win official sanctioning.

The cage is an octagonal structure with walls of metal chain-link fence coated with black vinyl and a diameter of 32 feet, allowing 30 feet of space from point to point. The fence is 5'6" to 5'8"; high. The cage sits atop a platform, raising it 4 feet from the ground. It has foam padding around the top of the fence and between each of the eight sections. It also has one entry-exit gate. The mat, painted with sponsorship logos and art.

### Attire

All competitors must fight in PFC shorts, without shoes. Shirts, gis or long pants (including gi pants) are not allowed. Fighters may use approved light-weight open-fingered wraps that allow fingers to grab. These wraps enable fighters to punch with less risk of an injured or broken hand, while retaining the ability to grab and grapple.

### Match outcome

Matches usually end via:

* **Knockout**: a fighter falls from a legal blow and is either unconscious or unable to immediately continue.
* **Technical Knockout** (TKO): If a fighter cannot continue, the fight is ended as a technical knockout. Technical knockouts can be classified into three categories:
	+ doctor stoppage (a ringside doctor due to injury or impending injury, as when blood flows into the eyes and blinds a fighter)
	+ corner stoppage (a fighter's own cornerman signals defeat for their own fighter)
* **Judges' Decision**: Depending on scoring, a match may end as:
	+ unanimous decision (all three judges score a win for fighter A)
	+ majority decision (two judges score a win for fighter A, one judge scores a draw)
	+ split decision (two judges score a win for fighter A, one judge scores a win for fighter B)
	+ unanimous draw (all three judges score a draw)
	+ majority draw (two judges score a draw, one judge scoring a win)
	+ split draw (one judge scores a win for fighter A, one judge scores a win for fighter B, and one judge scores a draw)

A fight can also end in a technical decision, disqualification, forfeit, technical draw, or no contest. The latter two outcomes have no winners.

### Judging criteria

The ten-point must system is in effect for all PFC fights; three judges score each round and the winner of each receives ten points, the loser nine points or fewer. If the round is even, both fighters receive ten points.

### Fouls

The Nevada State Athletic Commission currently lists the following as fouls:

1. Headbutting with the head
2. Eye gouging of any kind
3. Biting
4. Hair pulling
5. Fish hooking
6. Groin attacks of any kind
7. Putting a finger into any orifice or into any cut or laceration on an opponent.
8. Small joint manipulation
9. Striking to the spine or the back of the head
10. Striking downward using the point of the elbow
11. Throat strikes of any kind, including, without limitation, grabbing the trachea
12. Clawing, pinching or twisting the flesh
13. Grabbing the clavicle
14. Kicking the head of a grounded opponent
15. Kneeing the head of a grounded opponent
16. Stomping a grounded opponent
17. Kicking to the kidney with the heel
18. Spiking an opponent to the canvas on his head or neck.
19. Throwing an opponent out of the ring or fenced area
20. Holding the shorts or gloves of an opponent
21. Spitting at an opponent
22. Engaging in unsportsmanlike conduct that causes an injury to an opponent
23. Holding the ropes or the fence
24. Using abusive language in the ring or fenced area
25. Attacking an opponent on or during the break
26. Attacking an opponent who is under the care of the referee
27. Attacking an opponent after the bell (horn) has sounded the end of a round
28. Flagrantly disregarding the instructions of the referee
29. Timidity, including, without limitation, avoiding contact with an opponent, intentionally or consistently dropping the mouthpiece or faking an injury
30. Interference by the corner
31. Throwing in the towel during competition

When a foul is charged, the referee in their discretion may deduct one or more points as a penalty. If a foul incapacitates a fighter, then the match may end in a disqualification if the foul was intentional, or a no contest if unintentional. If a foul causes a fighter to be unable to continue later in the bout, it ends with a technical decision win to the injured fighter if the injured fighter is ahead on points, otherwise it is a technical draw.

### Match conduct

* After a verbal warning the referee can stop the fighters and stand them up if they reach a stalemate on the ground (where neither are in a dominant grappling position or working towards one). This rule is codified in Nevada as the *stand-up rule*.
* If the referee pauses the match, it is resumed with the fighters in their prior positions.
* Grabbing the cage brings a verbal warning, followed by an attempt by the referee to release the grab by pulling on the grabbing hand. If that attempt fails or if the fighter continues to hold the cage, the referee may charge a foul.

## Current/Past PFC Champions

### PFC Hall of Fame inductees

(In the order inducted)

* **N/A**

### Fighters/Rankings

C  Buck Montana

1  Harley Evergreen

2  Toni Phang

3  Cooter Brown

4  Dorsey D. Ray

5  Jaxon Liberty

6  Lamar Street

7  Dan Carlyle

8  Hamilton B. Urglar

9  Owen Hill

11  Evelyn Castle

12  Jack Beaver

13  Shane Castle

14  Remi Johnson

15  Vincent Hubbard

17  Jameson Boon

18  Selene Kaine

19  Tommy Bucats

1. ↑ "NSAC Regulations: Chapter 467 - Unarmed Combat", Nevada State Athletic Commission. URL accessed April 3, 2006