Ohio Administrative Code › Title 3773 - Ohio Athletic Commission › Chapter 3773-4 - Boxers › Section 3773-4-05 - Contract requirements and suspensions

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
(A) There must be a contestant/promoter
			 contract signed by both parties for all public or private competition that
			 involves the sports of boxing, kick boxing, karate, or any other form of boxing
			 or martial arts prior to any bout occurring. The contract shall contain the
			 names of the contestants competing, the date of the event, the location of the
			 event, the weight or weight class the contestants will compete at and the
			 amount the contestants will be paid for the bout. The state of Ohio contract
			 form must be the valid contract form completed by all parties.
(B) A bout agreement which provides that a
			 contestant must fight exclusively for one promoter or at the option of one
			 promoter is prohibited for amateur contestants.
(C) In the event a contestant is unable to
			 participate through no fault of their own, the promoter shall give the
			 contestant the option of receiving the show money or an amount expressly agreed
			 upon and approved by the commission in advance and contracted for on the
			 contestant/promoter contract or scheduling the contestant on the promoter's
			 next event at an equal or greater amount of the contract amount listed for the
			 event the contestant was unable to participate in.
(D) After signing a contestant/promoter
			 contract form, a contestant may not enter into another contracted bout that is
			 scheduled thirty days prior to the previously signed contract. If the
			 contestant participates in a bout within this thirty day time period and
			 because of participating in this event is not able to participate in the
			 originally contracted event, they shall be suspended for not more than six
			 months. The contestant may appeal by certified
			 mail to the executive director for a hearing within thirty days of the mailing
			 date of the notice of the suspension. The suspension will start at the end of
			 any previously administered suspension.
(E) When the contestant fails to appear in a
			 contest in which they signed a bout agreement to appear shall be suspended for
			 not more than six months. The contestant may produce a valid certificate from a
			 physician and approved by the executive director or commission in the case of
			 any physical disability. The contestant who files a certificate from a
			 physician stating they are unable to fulfill a bout agreement because of
			 physical disability, shall be immediately given a medical suspension for a
			 period of sixty days.
								 The executive director or commission may remove any
			 suspension if the contestant is released from the bout agreement by mutual
			 agreement. The contestant may appeal by certified
			 mail to the executive director within thirty days of the mailing date of notice
			 of the suspension.
(F) A contestant
			 who fails to make the required weight listed on the contestant/promoter
			 contract form and as a result the bout is canceled the contestant will be
			 suspended for not more than six months and  be fined or
			 both. The contestant may appeal by certified
			 mail to the executive director within thirty days of the mailing date of notice
			 of the suspension.
(G) If after
			 weighing in a contestant fails to honor the contestant/promoter bout contract
			 by not showing for the bout or refuses to compete, may be fined and
			 shall be suspended for not more than twelve months or
			 both. The contestant may appeal by certified
			 mail to the executive director within thirty days of the mailing date of the
			 notice of suspension.
(H) A
			 contestant or promoter will be suspended indefinitely, until payment is made in
			 full of any judgment awarded by a court of law that is presented to the Ohio
			 athletic commission for any violations of rules in agency 3773 of the
			 Administrative Code.