AdoreAble Promo - Toughman CCITY OF DUBUQUE, IOWA
MEMORANDUM
May 31,2001
TO:
FROM:
SUBJECT:
The Honorable Mayor and City Council Members
Michael C. Van Milligen, City Manager
AdoreAble Promotions, Inc.- Toughman Contest
You had requested that City staff provide background information on the AdoreAble
Promotions, Inc. request to have a Toughman Contest at the Five Flags Center.
Leisure Services Manager Gil Spence has prepared the background information.
I look forward to Mayor and City Council policy direction on this matter.
MCVM/jh
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cc: Barry Lindahl, Corporation Counsel
Cindy Steinhauser, Assistant City Manager
Leisure Services Manager Gil Spence
CITY OF DUBUQUE, IOWA
MEMORANDUM
May 29, 2001
TO:
FROM:
SUBJECT:
Michael C. Van Milligen, City Manager
Gil D. Spence, Leisure Services Manager
Toughman Contest
INTRODUCTION
The purpose of this memorandum is to provide you with some background information
on Toughman Contests held at the Five Flags Center and why they are no longer
allowed.
DISCUSSION
In February 1991, a Toughman/Toughman Contest was held at the Five Flags Center.
These are elimination boxing tournaments where money is awarded to the winners.
Several of these events were held in the past and proved to be good revenue
generators for the Center. A promoter sponsors and conducts these events with Five
Flags involved only as renter of the arena.
During this event in 1991, Mr. Dan Vondran was seriously injured. The City Council
became concerned about the City's liability for such events and adopted the attached
ordinance on Apdl 17, 1991, prohibiting professional boxing elimination tournaments
within the City of Dubuque.
Adore Able Promotions, Inc. is asking to put on the exact type of event the ordinance
prohibits. When Acting Civic Center Manager Jamie Blum turned down the event, she
did so because of the ordinance.
If you have any further questions, please let me know.
GDS:et
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ORDINANCE NO.
-91
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE CITY OF DUBUQUE
CODE OF ORDINANCES BY ADDING TO CHAPTER 33 A
NEW SECTION 33-14 PROHIBITING PROFESSIONAL
BOXING ELIMINATION TOURNAMENTS WITHIN THE
CITY OF DUBUQUE.
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Dubuque, Iowa,
finds and declares that injuries have occurred to persons
participating in boxing elimination tournaments, and that those
injuries have proven to be serious in nature; and
WHEREAS, it is the intent of the City Council of the City
of Dubuque, Iowa, to protect the health, welfare, and safety of
persons within the city of Dubuque;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF DUBUQUE, IOWA~
Section i. The City of Dubuque Code of Ordinances is hereby
amended by adding thereto the following new Section 33-14:
Section 33-14. Professional Boxing Elimination Tournaments
Prohibited.
(a) For purposes of this Section, the following terms shall
have the following meanings:
(1) "Professional boxing" means a boxing contest or
exhibition, open to the public for which any principal
or contestant is paid.
(2) "Elimination tournament" means a boxing contest or
exhibition in which contestants box one another, two
(2) at a time, with one (1) contestant being eliminated
from the tournament. This elimination continues, with
winners from the various bouts competing until only one
(1) contestant remains undefeated in the weight
division.
(b)
No person shall promote, participate in, or allow
professional boxing that is part of an elimination
tournament within the city of Dubuque.