Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
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Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation
 
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Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation
 
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Professional Boxing and Wrestling Event Regulations [18 VAC 120 ‑ 40]
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1/26/16  11:04 pm
Commenter: Ned spears

New virginia mixed martial arts regulations
 
I am not in support of the new law as laid out in the new regulations, much less what will be added to the bill. Making the criteria for a group to become a sanctioning body even harder seems to be odd when the whole law was supposed to be put into effect for the safety of the fighters and not about the monopoly of one sanctioning body. As a fighter and promoter in southwest virginia there is nothing in any part of this bill that we were not already doing with out the help of an outside sanctioning body. As far as I can tell this was not about fighter safety as much as it was about money. If the new part of the law takes effect then mma in the lower part of the state will disappear. That will do nothing for the small business in this area, but will send all the competitors to Tennessee or Kentucky. That will only boost there small businesses and not ours. Please rethink this all together and come up with a better plan.
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