Arkansas Code Title 17. Professions, Occupations, and Businesses § 17-22-101. Definitions

(1) “Amateur” means a person who has never received nor competed for any purse or other compensation in an amount that exceeds the sum established by the State Athletic Commission in its rules for:

(2) “Boxing” means to compete with the fists;

(4) “Exhibition” means any engagement in which the participants show or display their skills without necessarily striving to win;

(5) “Kick boxing” means any form of boxing in which blows are delivered with the hand and any part of the leg below the hip, including the foot;

(6) “Manager” means any person who directly or indirectly controls or administers the combative sports affairs of any professional participant of the same;

(7) “Martial arts” or “mixed martial arts” means any discipline in which the participants utilize kicks, punches, blows, strikes, or other techniques, including without limitation any form of judo, kung fu, karate, and tae kwon do, ju jitsu, or any combination thereof;

(8) “Match” means any engagement in which the participants show or display their skills while striving in good faith to win;

(9) “Person” means any individual, partnership, corporation, association, or club;

(10) “Professional” means an individual who is eighteen (18) years of age or older and who, as a means of obtaining pecuniary gain:

(11) “Professional wrestling” means an event or form of combat between two (2) or more participants, whether the outcome is predetermined or not, in which a participant:

(12) “Promoter” means any person, club, organization, corporation, or association, and in the case of a corporate promoter includes any officer, director, employee, or stockholder thereof who produces, arranges, or stages any professional boxing, kick boxing, wrestling, or martial arts match or exhibition; and

(13) “Wrestling” means any form of combat between two (2) or more participants in which a participant delivers blows to his or her opponent's body, executes throws to his or her opponent's body, or applies holds to his or her opponent's body.