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CSAC promoter meeting set for 9/28
By Zach Arnold | August 24, 2007
Armando Garcia of the CSAC will be hosting a Promoter’s Information Meeting (with CA licensed boxing, kickboxing, and MMA promoters) on Tuesday 9/28 at 11:30 AM PST at the Ronald Reagan State Building, First Floor Auditorium, located at 300 South Spring Street in Los Angeles.
Details of the agenda in full-page mode…
Here is the agenda for that meeting:
Event Schedule
a. Number of shows – 2006
b. Number of shows – 2007
c. Staffing
Request To Hold An Event
d. Bout card
e. Additional information for event
f. Change requests
g. Professional boxing and MMA official records
Event Preparation
h. Event packet
i. Change requests
j. Matchmaking and bout approval process
k. Ability to perform – Rule 283
l. Pro debut athletes
1. Gym evaluations
2. Length of rounds
3. Experience and qualifications
4. Participant information form
m. Weigh-In
1. Report time
2. Bout contracts and deductions
3. Agreed upon weights
n. Medical Requirements
1. Timeliness
2. Responsibility
Drug Testing
o. Overview
p. Statistics
q. Therapeutic Use Exemption process
r. Manner and location of testing
s. Amount to be collected
Proposed Regulations
t. Overview of rules for boxing, kickboxing, and mixed martial arts
u. Competition enclosure
v. Commission technical area
Official’s Fees
NOTICE: Comment will be permitted on each agenda item, but will be limited due to time constraints.
For those of you familiar with WWE’s “Wellness Policy,” you immediately cringe when you hear the term “therapeutic use.” However, Bill Douglas of the CSAC responded to us when we asked what that clause detailed:
Therapeutic use exemptions are for your basic medications (for example, asthma inhalers). The forms are for upfront disclosure prior to a bout so the meds can be reviewed by Commission doctors and discussed with prescribing physicians in order to clear an athlete for combative sports.
With all of this upfront, if an athlete still fails to disclose and then takes something that registers on the drug test, it would be considered a violation.
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