The following acts shall constitute unlawful conduct and behaviour by a boxer:
| (b) |
hitting an opponent who is down or who is getting up after having been down; |
| (c) |
hitting with the inside or the butt of the hand, wrist of elbow; |
| (d) |
butting with the head; |
| (f) |
knocking or kicking with the knees; |
| (i) |
intentionally going down without having been hit; |
| (j) |
not being in earnest or not trying to be in earnest; |
| (k) |
retiring from the bout without sufficient cause; |
| (l) |
committing an unfair physical action that may injure an opponent; |
| (m) |
refusing to obey the referee; |
| (n) |
delivering back-handed blows, or hitting or flicking with the open glove; |
| (o) |
holding an opponent in a clinch or holding or locking an opponent’s arms or head after being ordered by the referee to break; |
| (p) |
holding an opponent with one hand and hitting him or her with the other; |
| (q) |
holding on to the ropes with one hand for the purpose of obtaining greater force in hitting an opponent with the other hand; |
| (r) |
boring or lying on an opponent; |
| (s) |
wrestling or roughing; |
| (t) |
not breaking promptly when ordered to do so; |
| (u) |
resting on the ropes during a stoppage; |
| (v) |
after a stoppage has been ordered, resuming or attempting to resume boxing without being ordered to do so; |
| (w) |
using offensive language or bad behaviour during a fight; |
| (x) |
weaving, ducking or bobbing below an opponent’s waistline during an attack; |
| (aa) |
deliberately exposing a vital part of his or her body to an opponent; |
| (cc) |
hitting after the bell has sounded ending the round; |
| (dd) |
continuous dropping of his or her mouthpiece; |
| (ee) |
jabbing his or her opponent's eyes with the thumb of his or her gloves; or |
| (ff) |
deliberately expelling or spitting out his or her mouth-piece. |
Older Persons Act, 2006
