Delaware combative sports event bonds.
From $100.
Before the Division of Professional Regulation permits a Delaware combative sports event, the promoter's bond must be on file on its Bond Form for Combative Sports Events; DPR's instructions for professional boxing and MMA call for not less than $10,000. Premiums cost 0.6% of the bond amount, $100 minimum.
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How much does a Delaware combative sports event bond cost?
0.6% of the bond amount, from $100. Enter your amount in the calculator for the exact price.
Three steps. One sitting.
Nothing here waits on an underwriting queue — enter the amount, pay, and upload the executed bond with your permit application. Here is the whole thing:
Apply online
Your promoter and business details, the bond amount the Division requires, and the effective date — that is the application.
Pay & e-sign
Your price is final at checkout — 0.6% of the bond amount, $100 minimum. No credit check up to $10,000, and most applications approve instantly; the executed bond and power of attorney generate the moment you pay.
Upload it in DELPROS
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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Claims, renewal, filing, and what sets the price.
If a claim is made
A claim comes from the party the bond protects, the obligee named on the form, when the duty the bond guarantees is not met.
The surety investigates and pays a valid claim, up to the bond amount. You then repay the surety: a surety bond is a guarantee of your performance, not insurance for you.
Renewal and term
The premium covers a one-year term from the effective date you choose.
Renew before the expiry date to keep the bond in force: the license, permit or contract it backs expects continuous coverage.
How to file it
Upload it in DELPROS. 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 sets the price
The premium is 0.6% of the bond amount, $100 minimum: the amount the obligee sets moves the price, not your business profile.
No credit check up to $10,000. Above that, the carrier may run a soft pull, which never affects your score.
Where a check runs, it decides approval; the rate is the same for everyone approved.
One application, issued instantly.
These are the actual issuing fields — promoter details, the bond amount the Division requires, and an effective date. That is the application.
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