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Monday, June 15, 2015

A Breakdown of the (Hopefully) Final Version of the New York MMA Bill

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NEW YORK Last week Assembly Majority Leader Joe Morelle reworked the MMA bill to make it more appealing to some of the holdouts. It wa...
Saturday, June 13, 2015

Here's the Final List of Assembly Targets - Fire Away!

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NEW YORK The legislative session ends on Wednesday, and thanks to a revamped MMA bill and previously unheard of levels of support, we a...
Thursday, June 11, 2015

An Interview With MMAPayout

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NEW YORK Jason Cruz over at MMAPayout had me on for an interview to discuss what Assembly Majority Leader Joe Morelle's new MMA bi...

Take It To The Top 7 Poster

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Wednesday, June 10, 2015

MMA Platinum Gloves 10 Poster

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Tuesday, June 9, 2015

Check Out This New York Fight Exchange Coverage

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NEW YORK The New York Fight Exchange had their seventh installment on Saturday night, and though I missed the event, there is some cove...
Monday, June 8, 2015

The MMA Bill Has Been Revamped - Here's What's New

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NEW YORK Assembly Majority Leader Joe Morelle said there would be changes coming to the MMA bill, and he wasn't kidding. A new, re...
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Thursday, June 4, 2015

The New York MMA Bill Might Be Undergoing Some Dramatic Changes

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NEW YORK There are seven working days left in the 2015 legislative session and the MMA bill still needs six more votes to pass, and wit...
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Wednesday, June 3, 2015

New York Fight Exchange 7 Fight Card

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Tuesday, June 2, 2015

The Session is Almost Over - Why Hasn't the MMA Bill Passed Yet?

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NEW YORK The 2015 legislative session ends on June 17, which means there are only nine work days left for the Assembly to pass the MMA ...
Monday, June 1, 2015

Grapplers Seize the Day at Aggressive Combat Championships 11

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NEW YORK Sometimes drive and determination are the difference between winning and losing in a fight. Sometimes its the skills brought i...
Thursday, May 28, 2015

A Wacky Anti-MMA Editorial and a Response

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NEW YORK It's crunch time for the legislative session and the prospects of getting the MMA bill passed, so all the anti-UFC lobbyis...
Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Neal Kwatra: The Face of the Culinary Union's Anti-UFC Battle

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NEW YORK (Neal Kwatra, left, represents the Culinary Union's anti-UFC interests in New York.) This morning the Albany Times-Union...
Saturday, May 23, 2015

The FightNerd Is Doing a Film on Female Muay Thai Fighters - You Should Help

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AWESOME The Fight Nerd has long been a fixture in the New York fight scene, and his current project revolves around a documentary about...
Thursday, May 21, 2015

Extreme Cage Fighting 6 Poster

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Monday, May 18, 2015

Senator Krueger is Talking Money When She Should Be Talking Safety

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NEW YORK Senator Liz Krueger is against the Ultimate Fight Championship coming to New York, and to combat the argument that sanctioned ...

MMA Bill Close But Still Not Quite There

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NEW YORK A02604 - the Assembly bill that would make pro MMA legal in New York - is still just a few votes shy of the 76-vote minimum re...
Friday, May 15, 2015

The System May Be Imperfect, But Some Things Do Go Right

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NEW YORK On Wednesday I wrote about how New York's lack of statutory regulation of amateur MMA was putting the health and safety o...
Thursday, May 14, 2015

Ring of Combat 51 Poster

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Wednesday, May 13, 2015

The Biggest Problem With No Amateur Regulation in New York: Dead Fighters

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NEW YORK (Noah Hughes after his May 2 fight. Photo courtesy of Zack Lynch/ MMAPhotography .) Usually, when a fighter suffers a KO or ...
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