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Goodbye Freak Fights! Alabama Passes MMA Legislation
(These ladies look forward to putting aside their differences to come together and watch people beat the crap out of each other with the government's blessing. It's just like football!) Congrat...
New York Poll Says 'No Thanks' to Ultimate Fighting
According to a new Marist Poll 68% of New Yorkers are opposed to Governor Patterson's initiative to legalize 'ultimate fighting'. Unfortunately, no one told the Marist Poll that mixed martial arts, no...
New York's Secretary of State backs MMA Legislation
New York's Secretary of State went to bat for MMA legislation in a letter to the editor in the New York Times: To the Editor: In "A Leaner Budget for Lean Times" (editorial, Jan. 20), you ca...
New York Governor Supports MMA Legalization
The New York Daily News is reporting that New York Governor Paterson will support MMA legislation to help alleviate the state's financial woes. ALBANY - Gov. Paterson is set to propose legalizing ult...
MMA Weekly is way too optimistic about New York and MMA
MMA Weekly keeps passing along "hope" that MMA legislation will get done in 2009, unfortunately MMA Weekly needs a bucket of cold water from the Hudson River to wake them from their stupor. ...
Two weeks are up, WKR was right about New York and MMA
MMA Weekly is reporting that MMA legislation in New York may not be done until 2010. Maybe they should read WKR more often because we wrote about that two weeks ago! I am not trying to ...
A look at Bob Reilly's rhetoric
Lisa Olson, of MMA Fanhouse, has a fascinating new profile of MMA opponent and New York Assemblyman Bob Reilly Reilly continues to make his argument around a moral compass. Constantly bringing up th...
MMA Legislation faces date for critical vote
It was over a year ago that it seemed inevitable that MMA legislation in New York would get out of committee. Unfortunately for UFC and MMA fans that effort collapsed as certain politicians got cold f...
The bizare double standard of Dana White
Who wrote the Unified Rules of MMA? If you answered Dana White you are wrong, dead wrong. For whatever reason the popular history surrounding the UFC is that Dana White and the Fertitta brothers cam...
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