---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 6303"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "6303"
heading: "Boxing matches in States without boxing commissions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/6303"
units:
  - "Chapter 89 — Professional Boxing Safety"
---

# §6303. Boxing matches in States without boxing commissions

- (a) No [person](/usc/15/7a.md?p=6) may arrange, promote, organize, produce, or fight in a [professional boxing match](/usc/15/6301.md?p=8) held in a [State](/usc/15/6301.md?p=10) that does not have a [boxing commission](/usc/15/6301.md?p=2-A) unless the match is supervised by a [boxing commission](/usc/15/6301.md?p=2-A) from another [State](/usc/15/6301.md?p=10) and subject to the most recent version of the recommended regulatory guidelines certified and published by the Association of [Boxing Commissions](/usc/15/6301.md?p=2-A) as well as any additional relevant professional boxing regulations and requirements of such other [State](/usc/15/6301.md?p=10).
- (b) For the purpose of this chapter, if no [State](/usc/15/6301.md?p=10) commission is available to supervise a boxing match according to [subsection (a)](#a), then—
  - (1) the match may not be held unless it is supervised by an association of [boxing commissions](/usc/15/6301.md?p=2-A) to which at least a majority of the [States](/usc/15/6301.md?p=10) belong; and
  - (2) any reporting or other requirement relating to a supervising commission allowed under this section shall be deemed to refer to the entity described in [paragraph (1)](#b-1).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 104–272, § 4, Oct. 9, 1996, 110 Stat. 3310; Pub. L. 106–210, § 7(e), May 26, 2000, 114 Stat. 328.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2000—Pub. L. 106–210 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a) and added subsec. (b).

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Jan. 1, 1997, see section 23 of Pub. L. 104–272, set out as a note under section 6301 of this title.