What is the differance between a legal and an illegal fight?

Question

Legal fights do not have to be organized. if that was true, me sparring in my dojo would be illegal.

Answer 1

Technically speaking, the law that would govern a fight's legality would be assault. While the actual statute varies from state to state, the general outline is that assault requires two things:

1.) An act intended to carry the apprehension of harmful or offensive contact.

2.) An act which carries the apprehension in the victim of harmful or offensive contact is imminent.

So how to word this more clearly... If I say, "I'm going to shoot you" and I have no gun on me, there's no act that shows intent. If I have a gun in hand, however, the gun being in hand means that I intend to follow up, and being a logical human, you'd belief that harmful or offensive contact is imminent.

So, why is this different from sparring in a dojo? Well, first, both parties are agreeing to the contact, so neither party believes the contact to ensue is harmful or offensive. Further, there's no intent by either party to willfully cause harm to the other person (however, this can change in the middle. If someone becomes enraged and starts beating on the other party, the fight just became assault)

So why do people get busted for scrapping with their friends in the street? Generally, this is a case of public nuissance or endangering public welfare or whatever term they want to apply to it.

I know that's a little simplified, but I do hope that helps give you a basic idea of why.

Answer 2

All fights are illegal.

(IMO -- this includes international warfare.)

Sparing, martial competitions and such are not "fights."

Answer 3

In my opinion, legal fights, are either sanctioned, or in a controlled environment. Which includes a referee, rules, and hopefully a person who isn't a stranger to the medical world. Must wear protective gear, and be safe and fun.

Answer 4

a illegal fight is one on the street, that is not sanctioned or organized by a athletic committee, and please, the sparring in your dojo is no where in the same world as a professionally sanctioned fight in a ring or a cage....bones break, tendons and ligaments snap, your partially separated from your consciousness.... that is not "sparring in your dojo"

Answer 5

Sparring and fighting is completly different, and the main difference form legal and illegal would be that an illegal fight would not be sanctioned by the states sport commissioner, also if two people just fought and a profit was made that would be illegal, cuz our country tries to take every little cent from anything they can, and fighting makes lots of money.

Answer 6

ok to start yes a legal fight is organized however being organized does not make it legal in it self to be legal the event or fight must be sanctioned by the state holding a fight ina state that doe snot allow "prize" fighting or that kind of fighting is an illegal fight or holding a fight that is not approved and overseen by the state the reason your sparring sessions are not considered as illegal is that there not in them self's fights in a sparring session the idea is or well is suppose to be to get better in a fight the idea id to beat your opponent sparring session are considered as training not as a fight

Answer 7

If both fighters consent to fight, it should be legal. If neither consent, they'd be fightslaves, I suppose, like the gladiators in ancient Rome. If only one consents, it's a bashing.

Answer 8

You go home after one and to jail after the other one. How good is your attorney?

If you're talking about sanctioned and unsanctioned fights, sanctioned fights go on to count on your professional record and unsanctioned do not. In point of fact, unsanctioned fights can actually count against you getting a license to fight legitimately.