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Code · BILL · 113th Congress · H.R. 5395 (Introduced in House) — To establish a United States Boxing Commission to administer the Professional Boxing Safety Act, and for other purposes. · Sec. 5

Sec. 5. United States Boxing Commission approval, or ABC or commission sanction, required for matches

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Section 4 ( 15 U.S.C. 6303 ) is amended to read as follows: No person may arrange, promote, organize, produce, or fight in a professional boxing match within the United States unless the match— is approved by the Commission; and is held in a State, or on tribal land of a tribal organization, that regulates professional boxing matches in accordance with standards and criteria established by the Commission. For purposes of subsection (a), the Commission shall be presumed to have approved any match other than— a match with respect to which the Commission has been informed of an alleged violation of this Act and with respect to which it has notified the supervising boxing commission that it does not approve; a match advertised to the public as a championship match; a match scheduled for 10 rounds or more; or a match in which 1 of the boxers has— suffered 10 consecutive defeats in professional boxing matches; or has been knocked out 5 consecutive times in professional boxing matches.
Notwithstanding paragraph (1), the Commission shall be presumed to have approved a match described in subparagraph (B), (C), or
(D)of paragraph
(1)if— the Commission has delegated its approval authority with respect to that match to a boxing commission; and the boxing commission has approved the match. Except as may be otherwise provided by the Commission by rule, in paragraph (1)(D)(ii), the term knocked out means knocked down and unable to continue after a count of 10 by the referee or stopped from continuing because of a technical knockout. . Section 19 ( 15 U.S.C. 6310 ) is hereby repealed.
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