Sunday, February 10, 2013

Legal No Holds Barred: The UFC Takes on New York in a Battle for MMA's Future

BLEACHER REPORT
BY  JONATHAN SNOWDEN (MMA LEAD WRITER) ON FEBRUARY 10, 2013

The UFC is facing the fight of the company's life this Wednesday in U.S. District Court Judge Kimba Wood's Pearl Street courtroom, leading a group of plaintiffs contesting a 1997 law that made the sport of mixed martial arts illegal in the state of New York. It's a battle that has raged for years, quietly at first, but publicly and in earnest in 2007 when the UFC began to attack New York's ban in the press and in the legislature, pumping millions of dollars into the state in attempt to bring the sport to the historic Madison Square Garden....

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