(a) The commission may, in accordance with the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act, compiled in title 4, chapter 5, suspend or revoke the license of any person issued pursuant to this chapter who:

Terms Used In Tennessee Code 68-115-209

  • Combatant: means any person eighteen (18) years of age or older who engages in a professional unarmed combat contest. See Tennessee Code 68-115-102
  • Commission: means the Tennessee athletic commission. See Tennessee Code 68-115-102
  • Contest: means an unarmed combat sport competition or exhibition in which at least one (1) of the combatants is a professional or has previously competed as a professional in this state or any other state or in which licensed combatants compete for a purse or item of value greater than that amount authorized pursuant to subdivision (1) for an amateur event. See Tennessee Code 68-115-102
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Person: means and includes individuals, corporations, limited liability companies, partnerships or associations, domestic and foreign. See Tennessee Code 68-115-102
  • Professional: means a person who competes or has competed in an unarmed combat sport contest for the purpose of a purse or item of value greater than that amount authorized for an amateur event, or any person who has been previously licensed in any other jurisdiction as a professional. See Tennessee Code 68-115-102
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Unarmed combat: means and includes boxing, mixed martial arts and kickboxing as defined and regulated under this chapter. See Tennessee Code 68-115-102
(1) Enters into a contract for a professional contest of unarmed combat in bad faith;
(2) Participates in any sham or fake professional contest of unarmed combat;
(3) Participates in a professional contest of unarmed combat pursuant to a collusive understanding or agreement in which the combatant competes in or terminates the professional contest in a manner that is not based upon honest competition;
(4) Is found to have failed to give the combatant’s best efforts, a failure to compete honestly or a failure to give an honest exhibition of the combatant’s skills in a professional contest of unarmed combat;
(5) Is found by the commission to have committed an act or conduct that is detrimental to a professional contest of unarmed combat, including, but not limited to, any foul or unsportsmanlike conduct in connection with a professional contest of unarmed combat;
(6) Fails to comply with any limitation, restriction or condition placed on the professional combatant’s license;
(7) Is determined to have used performance enhancing drugs or violated any provision of the World Anti-Doping Agency guidelines regulating substances;
(8) Engages in fraud or deceit in obtaining a license under this chapter;
(9) Is physically or mentally incapable;
(10) Has violated this chapter, any rule duly promulgated under this chapter or any lawful order of the commission; or
(11) Has had the person’s license revoked or suspended by any other authority, or has surrendered such license to the other authority, that regulates unarmed combat or its equivalent.
(b) The commission may also refuse to issue a license to an applicant who has been found by the commission to have committed any of the acts described in subsection (a) in this state or in any other jurisdiction.
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