Sports martial arts: comparative analysis of regulatory framework of Russian and foreign sports practice

The article presents the results of the analysis of the regulatory framework of sports martial arts in Russia and foreign sports practice (USA and Canada). The purpose of the study was to justify the need to regulate the issues related to the conduction of «wrestling shows» (or «demonstration fights» as it defined in foreign sports practice) - a kind of sports and entertainment performance. It should be noted that the change in the role and the importance of sports in the world practice (in late 1980s) in the aspect of the predominance of entertainment, spectacular, advertising function affected the development of professional sports, which is regarded in literature as an independent direction of modern sports, an entertainment industry, whose goal is a profit from the sale of sports performance and additional services. In professional sports, in contrast to elite sports, the commercial success has a paramount importance depending on the attitude of the spectators. Taking into account this pointed diversity, both the system of competitions in elite sports and professional sports are different...