Which States Regulate Pro Wrestling?

[KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!!]

It seems like there should be a database that tells you this sort of thing, but there is not. I’d love to be proven wrong or if someone ambitious ever puts one together.

As far as I know NY does, but they just require a doctor to take everyone’s blood pressure. I think the wrestling scenes in Delaware and Rhode Island fly under the radar since those are the smallest states anyway. Hence why CZW puts all there most hardcore shows in the former (where DJ Hyde’s grandparent’s farm is) and some other decent hardcore action has happened in the latter.

[Ultimo Gallos]

In AL every show has to have a doctor there to take blood pressure.

MS has a commission. To wrestle you have to have a license. Which required a blood test once a year IIRC. You also have to be at least 18. But lots of small shows in tiny towns will have 15 to 17 year olds in opening matches or battle royales. Same smaller shows will use guys that don't have a license.

LA you gotta have at least a EMT at every show. They require blood tests.

[honsou]

I know Kentucky has a relatively strict commission because IWA-MS ran down there with one of their crazier shows and law makers made it fairly difficult to run pro wrestling. Its why WWE rarely runs down there.

Washington also has a fairly strict commission from what I've heard as well but not nearly as bad

[2coldMack is even more baffled]

Doesn't Maryland have a ridiculously strict commission? Or did in the recent past?

[Ultimo Gallos]

Dec 30, 2017 16:52:49 GMT -5 honsou said:

I know Kentucky has a relatively strict commission because IWA-MS ran down there with one of their crazier shows and law makers made it fairly difficult to run pro wrestling. Its why WWE rarely runs down there.

Washington also has a fairly strict commission from what I've heard as well but not nearly as bad

According to Cornette,and others,IWA MS is the reason wrestling was banned from armories in Kentucky for a long time.

[Ultimo Gallos]

Dec 30, 2017 16:56:21 GMT -5 2coldMack is even more baffled said:

Doesn't Maryland have a ridiculously strict commission? Or did in the recent past?

In the 80s blading was a big no no in Maryland. Wasn't that where Harley Race pressured a Wrestling commissioner into paying for an injury Cactus Jack suffered?

[Kevin Dunn]

I know Seattle does

[Cranjis McBasketball]

In whatever state Springfield is in, Homer more than meets it's requirements to box, wrestle or be shot out of a cannon.

[Rave]

I remember hearing that Oregon is very strict and WWE doesn't run there much because of it.

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Virginia has wrestler licenses

[Glitch]

One promoter from here in Cali (from PWR ) said that he had to do a lot of work because of the wrestling commission in Arkansas, when he did a show there.
He said he hated all the paper work, but at the same wished other states regulated wrestling. Because it would force piece of crap feds to act like actual promotions.

Thoughts on this?

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New York, Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri, Louisiana, Mississippi, Washington, Oregon, Nevada are some I know of. Maybe Georgia.

[Alice Syndrome]

New York has one, because I can remember some dipshit representative tried to shut an intergender match last year, even though only boxing is forbidden from intergender competition in NY

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Indiana has one, but it's for sanctioning boxing and MMA.
I recall that IWA Mid-South specifically was banned from Indiana armories as well. (Others could.) It was worked around by Ian squeezing his talent onto two NWA shows; one night was a tourney for the Midwest Women's Title, the next for the tag belts.

After that, Ian ran to Midlothian, IL.

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Dec 31, 2017 14:51:52 GMT -5 @sandman said:

Indiana has one, but it's for sanctioning boxing and MMA.

Every state has an athletic commission that oversees sports, but it just comes down to how many still bother with pro wrestling as a "sport." Those that still do are doing it as means of collecting fees.

I recall that IWA Mid-South specifically was banned from Indiana armories as well. (Others could.) It was worked around by Ian squeezing his talent onto two NWA shows; one night was a tourney for the Midwest Women's Title, the next for the tag belts. After that, Ian ran to Midlothian, IL.

That timeline is a bit backwards. They were under the impression they were banned from the Indiana armories at the same time that happened in Kentucky (late 90s), but learned they were able to run in Indiana armories around 2002 or so. They were still running armories in Indiana well after adding Midlothian to their schedule, and shows that had nothing to do with NWA Midwest or Ed Chuman. That women's title show was in mid 2004, and they were still running Indiana armories through late 2005.

[Jazzman]

Dec 31, 2017 10:05:29 GMT -5 Alice Syndrome said:

New York has one, because I can remember some dipshit representative tried to shut an intergender match last year, even though only boxing is forbidden from intergender competition in NY

Yeah, my friend Marc was working that match, it was crazy.

[ThereIsNoAbsurdistOnlyZuul]

Dec 31, 2017 2:42:16 GMT -5 Rave said:

I remember hearing that Oregon is very strict and WWE doesn't run there much because of it.

That was a performance enhancement drugs testing.

They've since gone there. I was at the first WWE show in Eugene, Oregon in like... well over a decade, or more.

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Dec 31, 2017 18:27:07 GMT -5 ThereIsNoAbsurdistOnlyZuul said:

Dec 31, 2017 2:42:16 GMT -5 Rave said:

I remember hearing that Oregon is very strict and WWE doesn't run there much because of it.

That was a performance enhancement drugs testing.

They've since gone there. I was at the first WWE show in Eugene, Oregon in like... well over a decade, or more.

It's also because of the state taking a cut of the gate and other nonsense athletic commission related.

[SHAKEMASTER TV9 is Don Knotts]

Dec 31, 2017 2:40:47 GMT -5 Cranjis McBasketball said:

In whatever state Springfield is in, Homer more than meets it's requirements to box, wrestle or be shot out of a cannon.

That's what we get for living in a state founded by circus freaks.

[OVO 40 hunched over like he 80]

Dec 30, 2017 16:52:49 GMT -5 honsou said:

I know Kentucky has a relatively strict commission because IWA-MS ran down there with one of their crazier shows and law makers made it fairly difficult to run pro wrestling. Its why WWE rarely runs down there.

Washington also has a fairly strict commission from what I've heard as well but not nearly as bad

CM Punk in his rf shoot talked about Ian Rotten costing Jim Cornette money in Kentucky. Apparently schools and armories were tired of cleaning blood and thumbtacks that were left from the Mid South shows. I think that's when the commission started to take notice.