Alaska Administrative Code › Title 12 - Professional Regulations › Part 1 - Boards and Commissions Subject to Centralized Licensing › Chapter 06 - Athletic Commission › Article 2 - Professional Boxing Contest Requirements › 12 AAC 06.230 - Downed contestant

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) If a contestant is down, as described in
				  12 AAC 06.250, the referee shall
				  order the opponent to retire to the farthest neutral corner of the ring,
				  pointing to the corner, and shall immediately begin a 10-second count over the
				  contestant who is down.
(b) The
				  referee shall audibly announce the passing of the seconds, accompanying the
				  count with motions of the referee's arm, the downward motion indicating the end
				  of each second.
(c) The timekeeper,
				  by effective signalling, shall give the referee the correct one-second interval
				  for the count. The referee's count is the official count. Once the referee
				  picks up the count from the timekeeper, the timekeeper shall cease counting. A
				  contestant who is down may not resume boxing until the referee has finished
				  counting to eight.
(d) If the
				  opponent of the downed contestant fails to stay in the farthest corner, the
				  referee shall cease counting until the opponent has returned to that corner,
				  and shall then go on with the count from the point at which it was interrupted.
				  If the contestant who is down rises during the count, the referee may step
				  between the contestants long enough to be assured that the contestant just
				  risen is in condition to continue. If so assured, the referee shall, without
				  loss of time, order both contestants to go on with the contest. During the
				  intervention by the referee, the striking of a blow by either contestant may be
				  ruled a foul.
(e) If a contestant
				  is knocked out, the referee shall perform a full 10-second count in order to
				  avoid confusion as to the termination of the contest. If the downed contestant
				  is still down when the referee calls the count of 10, the referee shall wave
				  both arms to indicate that the contestant has been knocked out, and shall raise
				  the hand of the opponent as the winner.
(f) If both contestants go down at the same
				  time, the count must be continued as long as one is still down. If both
				  contestants remain down until the count of 10, the contest must be stopped, and
				  the decision is a technical draw.
(g) If a contestant is down, and the referee
				  is in the course of counting at the end of
(1)
				  a round other than the final round, the gong indicating the end of the round
				  may not be sounded during the count, but must be sounded either as soon as the
				  downed contestant regains his or her feet and the referee gives the command
				  "Box" or at the end of the count whichever occurs first; if the end of the
				  count occurs first, the downed contestant is considered to have lost the
				  contest by a knockout in the round just concluded; or
(2) the final round, the gong must be sounded
				  indicating the end of the round and the contest; the downed contestant is
				  considered to have lost the contest by a knockout in the final round.