N.M. Admin. Code § 15.6.12.29 - WHEN A CONTESTANT FALLS FROM THE RING DURING THE ROUND

A. Time-out called: When a contestant has been wrestled, pushed, or has fallen over or through the ropes during a bout, the referee will call time-out, and if the fallen contestant's ability to return to the ring seems questionable, the referee may ask the ringside physician to examine the contestant.

B. Rules on assisting fallen contestant: If, in the opinion of the physician and the referee, the fallen contestant is able to continue the bout, only one handler from his corner will be allowed to assist the fallen contestant back into the ring.

(1) The handler will do no more than assist the fallen contestant.

(2) If the handler is found performing any other tasks as are normal during rest periods (i.e. stopping a cut, etc.), the referee will immediately penalize or disqualify the fallen contestant.

C. Penalties: A contestant who deliberately wrestles, pushes, or throws an opponent out of the ring, or who hits his opponent when he is partly out of the ring and prevented by the ropes from assuming a position of defense, will be penalized by the referee.

D. Disqualification: If the tactic committed in Subsection C of this section results in injury to the opponent, the guilty contestant may be disqualified according to the appropriate rulings under 15.6.12.20 NMAC of the commission's rules and regulations regarding fouls.

E. Situation where counting begins: When a contestant intentionally falls through the ropes, or was knocked from the ring by a fair blow (which is to say that he was not wrestled, pushed, or otherwise shoved through the ropes by his opponent), the referee will begin counting the fallen contestant as though he has been knocked out in the ring.

(1) In this instance, the fallen contestant's seconds will not be allowed to assist him back into the ring.

(2) Once standing on the ring platform outside the ropes, the contestant must enter the ring immediately where he may either resume the bout or the referee may finish the count.

F. Other contestant to neutral corner: When a contestant has fallen over or through the ropes, the other contestant shall retire to the farthest neutral corner of the ring and stay there until instructed to continue the bout by the referee.

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N.M. Admin. Code § 15.6.12.29

15.6.12.29 NMAC - N, 03-23-2002 Amended by New Mexico Register, Volume XXVI, Issue 03, February 13, 2015, 2015, eff. 2/13/2015