(1) Terms defined in Section 76-1-101.5 apply to this section.
(2) An actor commits participation in an ultimate fighting match if the actor publicizes, promotes, conducts, or engages in a live fighting match in which:
(a) an admission fee is charged;
(b) match rules permit professional contestants to use a combination of boxing, kicking, wrestling, hitting, punching, or other combative, contact techniques; and
(c) match rules do not:
(i) incorporate a formalized system of combative techniques against which a contestant's performance is judged to determine the prevailing contestant;
(ii) divide a match into two or more equal and specified time periods for a match total of no more than 50 minutes; or
(iii) prohibit contestants from:
(A) using anything that is not part of the human body, except for boxing gloves, to intentionally inflict serious bodily injury upon an opponent through direct contact or the expulsion of a projectile;
(B) striking an individual who demonstrates an inability to protect the individual's self from the advances of an opponent;
(C) biting; or
(D) using direct, intentional, and forceful strikes to the eyes, groin area, adam's apple area of the neck, or temple area of the head.
(3) A violation of Subsection (2) is a class A misdemeanor.