KY promoter bonds.
From $100. Five minutes.
Kentucky conditions a promoter license on a $10,000 surety bond filed with the Boxing and Wrestling Commission — priced at 1% of the bond amount, $100 minimum. Your exact price appears at the five-minute application.
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Three steps. One sitting.
License bonds are the simplest thing in surety. Here's the entire process:
Apply online
Business details and an effective date. That's the application — no financials, and no credit information collected.
Pay & e-sign
Small fixed-amount license bonds like this are among the thousands of bond types that issue right after purchase. At most, 1–2 business days.
File with the Commission
Your executed bond and power of attorney arrive by email, ready to file with your Boxing and Wrestling Commission promoter application. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
What it is and who needs it.
What the bond actually guarantees
Kentucky regulates professional boxing, professional wrestling, and mixed martial arts through the Kentucky Boxing and Wrestling Commission, and conditions a promoter license on a surety bond. The bond is a performance and payment guarantee — it stands behind the purses, taxes, and obligations a promoter owes when staging a regulated event.
It's a three-party arrangement: you (the principal), the surety carrier, and the Commonwealth of Kentucky (the obligee), with athletes and the Commission as the protected parties. If a promoter fails to pay a contracted purse or violates the combat-sports statutes, the harmed party can recover against the bond.
It is not insurance for you — if the surety pays a claim, you repay the surety. Promoters who pay their fighters and follow the rules treat the bond as a license formality.
You need this bond if you're
Five minutes. The whole thing.
These are the actual issuing fields — the application collects no credit information.
Start the application →Common questions.
If yours isn't here, the bond team can usually answer within the hour.
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From $100, five-minute application, bond often issued in the same sitting. Free until issued.