1. (1) Terms defined in Section 76-1-101.5 apply to this section.

2. (2) An actor commits participation in an ultimate fighting match if the actor publicizes, promotes, conducts, or engages in a live fighting match in which:

   1. (a) an admission fee is charged;
   2. (b) match rules permit professional contestants to use a combination of boxing, kicking, wrestling, hitting, punching, or other combative, contact techniques; and

   3. (c) match rules do not:

      1. (i) incorporate a formalized system of combative techniques against which a contestant's performance is judged to determine the prevailing contestant;
      2. (ii) divide a match into two or more equal and specified time periods for a match total of no more than 50 minutes; or

      3. (iii) prohibit contestants from:

         1. (A) using anything that is not part of the human body, except for boxing gloves, to intentionally inflict serious bodily injury upon an opponent through direct contact or the expulsion of a projectile;
         2. (B) striking an individual who demonstrates an inability to protect the individual's self from the advances of an opponent;
         3. (C) biting; or
         4. (D) using direct, intentional, and forceful strikes to the eyes, groin area, adam's apple area of the neck, or temple area of the head.
3. (3) A violation of Subsection (2) is a class A misdemeanor.

Renumbered and Amended by Chapter 173, 2025 General Session