Post by Big Time Fights on Jun 28, 2021 5:00:23 GMT
Section 1 - Format and Match Length
- All matches are contested under sudden death format - one fall, one submission or a knockout will end the bout.
- Non-title matches have a fifteen (15) minute time limit.
- Championship bouts have a thirty (30) minute time limit.
Section 2 - Championship Format
- Championship titles can change hands by pinfall, submission, knockout, stoppage or disqualification.
- Fighters must make at least one successful defense of a title to qualify for a rematch clause.
- Champions must have at least one defense within a 90 day period, or have a defense scheduled within that frame.
Section 3 - Managers / Seconds
- Each fighter is permitted to have one (1) manager or second accompany them to ringside for matches.
- If a second is deemed to be detrimental to the match at hand, the referee is within their right to eject them from the ringside area.
- Three (3) ejections within a 90 day period will result in a hearing with the Fight Board.
Section 4 - Methods of Victory
- Pinfall - Pinning an opponent's shoulders to the mat for three seconds as counted by the referee in charge.
- Submission
- Tapout - A wrestler physically submits to strikes or a hold by tapping the mat or opponent.
- Technical - A wrestler loses consciousness or has a limb broken while in a hold.
- Verbal - A wrestler voices their submission by speech or scream.
- Knockout - The opponent fails to return to the ring or back to their feet before the referee's ten count.
- Stoppage - When a referee determines a wrestler is unable to intelligently defend themselves, or a doctor determines one cannot continue due to injury or laceration or a wrestler's second/manager calls to end the bout for the safety of their wrestler.
- Disqualification - A wrestler receives the third of three public warnings or commits an act severe enough for an automatic disqualification.
Section 5 - Public Warnings / Automatic Disqualifications
Penalty cards allow the referee in charge to utilize a three strikes rule in order to keep the fighters in line. Should a fighter commit a minor foul, they will be issued a yellow card as a public warning to shape up and fight within the rules. If a fighter commits any kind of foul after two previous yellow cards, they will be issued a red card and disqualified. A red card can also be issued at any point in the bout even if no prior cards have been given out. A referee cannot give a penalty card for a foul unless they have personally witnessed it, but a fighter may choose to appeal a result if a missed foul is conducive to the end of the bout.
Public Warnings - Yellow Cards:
- Biting, gouging, fish hooking, hair pulling, thumbing the eyes or cuts, or scratching an opponent
- Disregarding the instructions of the referee or ringside physician.
- Holding the ropes, an opponent's hair or attire for any kind of leverage
- Refusing to break a hold that is in the ropes or let an opponent off the ropes/back inside the ring
- Refusing to engage an opponent, including continuous holding and clinching/grappling with no advancing or strikes
- Throwing an opponent through the ropes
Automatic Disqualifications - Red Cards:
- Attacking a referee, ringside doctor or other official(s)
- Attacking a downed opponent during the referee's ten count
- Refusing to break a hold that is in the ropes or let an opponent off the ropes/back inside the ring
- Refusing to engage an opponent, including continuous holding and clinching/grappling with no advancing or strikes
- Throwing an opponent through the ropes
Automatic Disqualifications - Red Cards:
- Attacking a referee, ringside doctor or other official(s)
- Attacking a downed opponent during the referee's ten count
- Blatant strikes to the groin
- Outside interference of any kind
- Removing an opponent's attire including masks
- Throwing an opponent over the top rope, or off the top rope and to the floor.
- Use of weapons or foreign objects
- Removing an opponent's attire including masks
- Throwing an opponent over the top rope, or off the top rope and to the floor.
- Use of weapons or foreign objects