Washington Administrative Code › Title 36 - Licensing, Department of (Professional Athletics) › Chapter 36-12 - Professional boxing › Section 36-12-110 - Referee's responsibilities/authority

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
(1) The referee's primary responsibility
			 shall be to maintain the safety and welfare of the boxers at all
			 times.
(2) Before starting a
			 contest, the referee shall determine the name of the chief seconds for each
			 boxer. The chief second shall be responsible for the conduct of the boxer's
			 other seconds during the contest.
(3) The referee shall call boxers and their
			 chief seconds into the ring at the beginning of each contest for
			 instructions.
(4) The referee shall
			 not allow any person other than the boxers and the event physician to enter the
			 ring during a round.
(5) The
			 referee shall inspect the boxers' bodies and gloves to make sure no substances
			 have been applied to the detriment of an opponent.
(6) Referees who are event officials shall
			 pass a physical examination by the event physician within twenty-four hours
			 prior to an event for the purpose of determining their physical ability to
			 referee the contest. If such examination indicates the referee is physically
			 unable to referee the contest, such inability shall be noted on the prefight
			 physical form and immediately be reported to the inspector or department
			 representative.
(7) The referee
			 shall have the authority to stop a contest any time he/she thinks it is too
			 one-sided, or if either boxer is in such condition that to continue might
			 subject them to serious injury.
(8)
			 The referee shall not make a disqualification decision based on one
			 unintentional, low-blow foul. However, if two previous warnings for such fouls
			 have resulted in point deductions, the third foul may be grounds for
			 disqualification.
(9) The referee
			 has authority to decide any matters that arise during a contest and are not
			 covered by these rules.
(10) If a
			 boxer receives an injury that the referee thinks shall incapacitate the boxer,
			 the referee shall ask the event physician to examine the boxer. The event
			 physician shall provide the referee with an opinion as to the seriousness of
			 the injury and either the event physician or the referee shall stop the contest
			 if the injury is serious. When a referee calls the event physician into the
			 ring, the referee shall direct the timekeeper to cease keeping time while the
			 event physician examines the boxer.
(11) The referee may penalize a boxer who
			 fouls an opponent during a contest, by charging such boxer with the loss of
			 points. The referee shall immediately notify the judges of the number of points
			 to be deducted.
(12) The referee
			 shall stop the contest if the boxer's chief second determines that a contest
			 should be stopped, and immediately signals the referee by stepping onto the
			 ring apron.
(13) When a boxer
			 resumes boxing after having been knocked down or fallen or slipped to the
			 floor, the referee shall wipe all foreign material from the boxer's
			 gloves.
(14) The referee shall give
			 a boxer injured by a low-blow foul up to five minutes to recover. Should the
			 boxer be unable to continue at the end of the recovery period, the referee
			 shall declare that the boxer has signaled his/her desire to stop boxing as
			 described in WAC
			 36-12-130(1)(b)(iv).
(15) Prior to an event, each referee shall
			 disclose to the department all considerations, including reimbursement for
			 expenses that will be received from any source for participation in the event.
			 The disclosure shall be made on a form supplied by the department.
(16) A decision rendered at the termination
			 of any contest may be changed by the department if the department determines
			 that one of the following occurred:
(a) There
			 was collusion affecting the result of any contest;
(b) The compilation of the scorecard of the
			 judges shows an error which would mean that the decision was given to the wrong
			 contestant; or
(c) There was a
			 violation of the laws or rules governing contests, which affected the result of
			 any contest.