Cool your jets on Toronto and get excited for Pittsburgh

First of all, a disclaimer. I was born in the city of three rivers so there is a slight amount of bias in this post (David, get over the fact that Alexander Ovechkin can't win at anything and Crosby is a better player/human being).

At the UFC 114 media round table Dana White said that the St. Pierre-Koscheck fight could take place in Toronto or Pittsburgh. Josh is a Western Pennsylvania native and Georges is the best thing to come out of Canada since Prohibition (yeah bootleg whiskey!), so both venues make sense but if we had to place odds on it Pittsburgh would be the huge favorite.

While Pittsburgh is a likely venue due to the fact that the sport is, you know, actually regulated; Pittsburgh also has the advantage of a new indoor stadium perfect for the UFC. It will even have that brand new stadium smell (it smells like pine sol and virgins), which would be a huge plus for an end of the year mega-UFC event that we've grown accustomed to.

When it comes to Toronto, yes the UFC opened up an office in the future home of the Buffalo Bills but that doesn't translate into immediate political success in getting MMA regulation. Put it this way; how many "MMA will get done in New York" stories have you read recently? That's what I thought. Without serious political momentum, which, according to reports WKR has seen, doesn't exist in Ontario, regulation will not happen in 2010.