Permits are required to conduct professional shows. A licensed professional boxing club must obtain a boxing show permit prior to conducting a professional show. A permit is required for each show or exhibition that is to be held.
Ameteur boxing is not regulated by the state but rather by USA Boxing.
A professional show means any boxing or sparring event the admission to which requires the purchase of a ticket or the payment of anything of value.
The requirements of ch. 444, Wis. Stats., do not apply to exhibitions conducted by the American Legion, the Young Men's Christian Association, United Spanish War Veterans, Veterans of Foreign Wars or the Disabled American Veterans of the World War, for which no admission fee is charged. Any contribution shall be considered an admission fee. No such boxing or sparring exhibitions shall be conducted as a part of any program where an admission fee is charged.
