An Ultimate Fighting Championship event at New York’s iconic Madison Square Garden remains the dream for many a mixed martial arts supporter, but for now, a dream is all it appears to be.
Despite considerable optimism in recent months, a bill to legalize MMA in New York is expected to die before reaching a vote in the state’s assembly on Thursday.
“My big challenge today is that a number of members who are counted as supporters were just unavailable today because of the scheduling, that we weren’t expected to be here this long,” Assembly Majority Leader Joseph Morelle, the bill’s sponsor, told Gannett’s Albany Bureau (via Politics on the Hudson).