North Carolina Administrative Code › Title 14B - Public Safety › Chapter 10 - BOXING AUTHORITY › Section .0600 - KICKBOXING › Section 10 .0604 - FOULS - KICKBOXING

Current through Register Vol. 39, No. 2, July 15, 2024
(a) A kickboxing
				foul, whether intentional or unintentional, shall result in a warning or
				deduction of a point or points, as determined by the referee based on the
				following:
(1) The referee shall determine
				the severity of the penalty using as his criteria the intent of the contestant
				committing the foul and the result and effect of the foul upon the
				opponent.
(2) When the referee
				determines that he shall deduct a point or points from a participant, he shall
				immediately notify the Division representative or scorekeeper (if one is used),
				who shall ensure that the specified number of points are deducted from each of
				the judge's score cards at the end of the round.
(3) The referee shall not tolerate continual
				and repeated commission of fouls by a participant. The referee shall give
				warning to a contestant who continually and repeatedly commits fouls and when,
				in the opinion of the referee, the contestant has displayed persistent
				disregard for the rule governing the commission of fouls, the referee shall
				disqualify the participant, terminate the match and provide such findings to
				the Division for appropriate action.
(4) Points for fouls shall only be deducted
				in the round in which the fouls occurred. A contestant shall not be penalized
				in a subsequent round for fouls that occurred in a previous round.
(5) The following actions are fouls, the
				committing of which shall result in a deduction of points:
(A) Striking an opponent who is down or is
				getting up after being down;
(B)
				Holding an opponent with one hand and punching with the other;
(C) Holding or deliberately maintaining a
				clinch;
(D) Butting with the
				head;
(E) Striking with the knee,
				elbow or palm-heel;
(F) Clubbing
				blows with the hand;
(G) Striking
				to the face with any part of the arm other than the gloved hand;
(H) Deliberately striking or kicking the
				groin area, women's breasts, women's ovaries, back of the head, neck or throat,
				or that part of the back near the spine and over the kidneys;
(I) The deliberate use of any scraping or
				rabbit blow;
(J) Flicking or
				jabbing the opponent's eyes with the thumb of the glove;
(K) Hitting with the open glove or with the
				wrist;
(L) The use of abusive
				language in the ring or corner, or spitting or biting;
(M) Kicking with the knee, or kicking into
				the knee or to the inside region of the thigh, and sweeps to the inside region
				of the leg or shin-to-shin sweeps;
(N) Linear or straight-in striking or kicking
				to the spine;
(O) Intentionally
				pushing, shoving or wrestling an opponent to the ring floor or out of the ring,
				or throwing or taking an opponent to the floor with foot sweeps that make
				contact with any area above the opponent's ankle knuckle;
(P) Attacking or striking on the
				break;
(Q) Striking after the bell
				has sounded ending the round;
(R)
				Intentionally delaying the contest through any action or failure to
				act;
(S) Leg checking which is the
				act of extending the leg to check an opponent's leg to prevent him from
				kicking;
(T) Grabbing or holding an
				opponent's leg or foot followed by a takedown, strike or kick;
(U) Pushing an opponent around the ring or
				into the ropes;
(V) Anti-joint
				techniques which is the act of striking or applying leverage against any
				joint;
(W) Holding the ropes with
				one hand while kicking, punching or defending with the other hand or the
				legs;
(X) Any unsportsmanlike
				action which causes or is intended to cause injury to an opponent; or
(Y) Intentional spitting out of the
				mouthpiece or allowing the mouthpiece to fall out of the mouth.