(1) Terms defined in Section 76-1-101.5 apply to this section. (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: (a) an admission fee is charged; (b) match rules permit professional contestants to use a combination of boxing, kicking, wrestling, hitting, punching, or other combative, contact techniques; and (c) match rules do not: (i) incorporate a formalized system of combative techniques against which a contestant's performance is judged to determine the prevailing contestant; (ii) divide a match into two or more equal and specified time periods for a match total of no more than 50 minutes; or (iii) prohibit contestants from: (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; (B) striking an individual who demonstrates an inability to protect the individual's self from the advances of an opponent; (C) biting; or (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) A violation of Subsection (2) is a class A misdemeanor. Renumbered and
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