(a) The commission, its executive director or any other employee authorized by the commission may order the promoter to withhold any part of a purse or other money belonging or payable to any professional combatant, or any manager or second, if, in the judgment of the commission, executive director or other employee:

Terms Used In Tennessee Code 68-115-212

  • 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.
  • Manager: means a person who:
    (i) Undertakes to represent the interests of another person by contract, agreement or other arrangement, in procuring, arranging or conducting a professional contest in which the person will participate as a combatant. 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
  • Promoter: means any person who produces, stages or sponsors any professional contest of unarmed combat. See Tennessee Code 68-115-102
  • Purse: means the financial guarantee or any other remuneration for which combatants are participating in a professional contest and includes the combatant's share of any payment received for radio broadcasting, television or motion picture rights. See Tennessee Code 68-115-102
  • Second: means a person, including a manager, who is present at any professional unarmed combat contest to provide assistance or advice to combatants during a professional contest of unarmed combat. See Tennessee Code 68-115-102
(1) The combatant is not or has not competed honestly or to the best of the combatant’s skill and ability or the combatant otherwise is in violation of any rules adopted by the commission or any of the provisions of this chapter, including, but not limited to, § 68-115-209; or
(2) The manager or second violates any rules promulgated by the commission or any of the provisions of this chapter, including, but not limited to, § 68-115-209.
(b) Upon the withholding of any part of a purse or other money pursuant to this section, the commission shall immediately schedule a hearing on the matter, and provide adequate notice to all interested parties prior to the hearing.
(c) If it is determined that a licensee is not entitled to any part of the licensee’s share of the purse or other money, the promoter shall pay the money over to the commission. Subject to subsection (d), all money received by the executive director or the commission shall be paid into the athletic commission account pursuant to § 68-115-107.
(d) Money turned over to the commission pending final action in any matter shall be credited to the athletic commission’s agency account and shall remain in the account until the commission orders its disposition in accordance with the final action taken.
(e)

(1) Unless otherwise stipulated by the promoter and professional combatant by contract, the combatant shall be paid the purse at the conclusion of the professional contest.
(2) All contracts entered into between a combatant and a promoter shall include a provision that entitles the combatant, upon obtaining a favorable judgment by a court, to recover all costs, prejudgment interests and attorney fees, the right to which shall not be waived in any such contract.
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