DE combative sports event bonds.
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Before the Division of Professional Regulation issues a permit for a Delaware combative sports event, the promoter's bond has to be on file with the Division on its Bond Form for Combative Sports Events — DPR's instructions for professional boxing and MMA events call for not less than $10,000. Premiums cost 0.6% of the bond amount, $100 minimum; the application collects no credit information, and most applications approve instantly. Enter the amount your permit requires and your exact price appears at the application.
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Your promoter and business details, the bond amount the Division requires, and the effective date — that is the entire application.
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Your price is final at checkout — 0.6% of the bond amount, $100 minimum. The application collects no credit information, and most applications approve instantly; the executed bond and power of attorney generate the moment you pay.
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Delaware takes permit applications through DELPROS, and the bond has to be on file with the Division before the permit issues — professional event applications are due at least 30 days ahead of the card. Wet-ink originals mailed on request, and if your surety signs outside Delaware a qualified Delaware resident agent countersigns.
What it is and who needs it.
What the promoter bond actually guarantees
Delaware regulates boxing, mixed martial arts, kickboxing and other combative sports under Title 28, Chapter 1 of the Delaware Code, administered by the Division of Professional Regulation in the Department of State. The State has no standing athletic commission, so DPR runs the program and brings in a designated agent from another jurisdiction to approve the date and oversee the event. Four things need a permit: professional boxing, professional MMA, amateur MMA, and combative sports entertainment — the choreographed kind, where the effort is simulated and the outcome is predetermined.
The bond is the Division's leverage on a promoter's promises. On DPR's Bond Form for Combative Sports Events you are the principal, the surety carrier stands behind you, and the State of Delaware and the Division of Professional Regulation are the obligee. It is conditioned on the promoter's faithful performance of the Combative Sports Rules and Regulations — expressly including your contractual obligations to contestants, managers and other licensees, and the payment of all license and permit fees. Fighters, cornermen, officials and the State are who it protects when a card loses money and the purses go unpaid.
It is not insurance for you — if the surety pays a claim, you repay the surety. The form leaves the penal sum blank so the Division can name the figure it wants for your card, and it is explicit that the bond must be on file before the permit is issued. A bond can be carried into your next date by continuation certificate. The surety may end its liability on 30 days' written notice to the Division, and defaults that happened before that notice period runs out stay covered.
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These are the actual issuing fields — promoter details, the bond amount the Division requires, and an effective date. That is the entire application.
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0.6% of the bond amount, $100 minimum, issued the moment you pay. Free until issued.