Regulated professional MMA is finally come to New York. The first regulated event in the United States took place on August 23, 1996, in Biloxi, Mississippi. That New York State is twenty years behind the great state of Mississippi tells you all sorts of things about politics and violence and the intersection of the two.
While the UFC has plans to put together something special for New York, that card will be the promotion’s return to – not the debut in – the state. UFC 7 (Fight Pass link) took place on September 5, 1995, from the Memorial Auditorium in Buffalo, New York.