MMA Legal in New York

ASOT

Finally

Swashbuckler

ASOT wrote: »

Finally

Great news! At last. Who'll headline there first!!?

ASOT

Swashbuckler wrote: »

Great news! At last. Who'll headline there first!!?

Jones card in september id imagine, weidman, sterling etc Going to be epic!

jimmii

Not only great to see it but great to see so few no's. It's going to be a record setter that's for sure.

Swashbuckler

ASOT wrote: »

Jones card in september id imagine, weidman, sterling etc Going to be epic!

Easier to get to too. We'd never get tickets tho!

DrumSteve

Goddamn tito Ortiz voted against... Featherweight tito and all.

ASOT

113-25 what a result.

Devastator

Great news!! I would love to goto an event in MSG!!!

McG Vs hometown(basically) Frankie ? :eek::pac:

Paully D

Great news for us fans too. A far easier trek than Vegas.

Do you think we'll start to see a large number of east coast events now with New York in play or not all that much different?

Zero-Cool

I'd say tix will be mad prices but main cards starting at 12 instead of 3 will make a HUGE difference to watching live! McGregor will definitely want to be on it as well.

Devastator

Zero-Cool wrote: »

I'd say tix will be mad prices but main cards starting at 12 instead of 3 will make a HUGE difference to watching live! McGregor will definitely want to be on it as well.

I'm not sure about the cards changing times too much. Boxing in NY is usually a late one for us here. If they move it to an earlier start it might not suit the west coast for tv ratings

qwabercd

Paully D wrote: »

Great news for us fans too. A far easier trek than Vegas and far easier to stay up for!

Do you think we'll start to see a large number of east coast events now with New York in play or not all that much different?

It'll be very hard to get tickets I'd imagine? NYC be great for a fight weekend would love to go.

Utopia Parkway

Paully D wrote: »

Great news for us fans too. A far easier trek than Vegas.

Do you think we'll start to see a large number of east coast events now with New York in play or not all that much different?

The big fights will still be in Vegas. MSG is very expensive to run and the casino lobby in Vegas will demand all the big fights. Although I'm sure the UFC will try and run a big show for the first event in New York.

parc

I'll fight McGregor in Central Park for a box of chicken nuggets

666th post as well

Spooky

Gamebred

Incredible this man is an elected official,hes like something from a mtv reality show.

nmg4

Great news. We will be talking about it with Jim Genia, NY based MMA journalist tomorrow on Talking Brawls Podcast. Plus loads more guests. Roll on MSG!

Gamebred

https://twitter.com/GrabakaHitman/status/712457148442271744



Incredible.

Devastator

Utopia Parkway wrote: »

The big fights will still be in Vegas. MSG is very expensive to run and the casino lobby in Vegas will demand all the big fights. Although I'm sure the UFC will try and run a big show for the first event in New York.

Would the UFC have invested so much time,effort and finances into this just to run FN cards a few times each year? I doubt it. There are people online from other promotions thanking the UFC so it must have been pretty significant the work and money put in.
Plus from UFC200 events will be held in a new arena in Vegas which isn't connected (physically) to a casino. I think that will see quite a dramatic drop in $s because the crowds are not hearded past slots,tables, retail shops, food places,etc when just trying to get to the fights

Gamebred wrote: »

Incredible this man is an elected official,hes like something from a mtv reality show.

A few weeks/month ago when the reality kicked in that Trump actually has a chance of being elected president I give up trying to make sense of anything that Murica does anymore

Mellor

Zero-Cool wrote: »

I'd say tix will be mad prices but main cards starting at 12 instead of 3 will make a HUGE difference to watching live! McGregor will definitely want to be on it as well.

I'm not sure that will happen tbh. They've always ran east coast events. Florida, Boston, New Jersey, and Pittsburgh were all recently. I can't see NY suddenly changing the time of events.

The fight cards are on pretty early in Vegas, and late on the east. I think they just decided on an middle america average to stick to.

LaGlisse

Would actually consider going over for a McG fight now. Hate Vegas. Way more managble trip plus plenty couches to crash on. Sweet

That_Guy

ASOT wrote: »

113-25 what a result.

Outrageous scoring from the judges....

Knex*

ASOT wrote: »

113-25 what a result.

Cecil Peoples scored it 29-28


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JohnMc1

Utopia Parkway wrote: »

The big fights will still be in Vegas. MSG is very expensive to run and the casino lobby in Vegas will demand all the big fights. Although I'm sure the UFC will try and run a big show for the first event in New York.

Have you seen MSG ticket prices? No way will NY fans pay top dollar for a crap card. UFC will need to bring their A-game to it.

Foxtrol

JohnMc1 wrote: »

Have you seen MSG ticket prices? No way will NY fans pay top dollar for a crap card. UFC will need to bring their A-game to it.

First one will be huge in MSG but going forward they wont be only using just MSG though, they’ll hold cards upstate and they’ll definitely be doing them in Brooklyn.

Can see them doing one really big card a year in MSG and also spreading maybe 2 other level cards around other parts of NY.

JohnMc1

Foxtrol wrote: »

First one will be huge in MSG but going forward they wont be only using just MSG though, they’ll hold cards upstate and they’ll definitely be doing them in Brooklyn.

Can see them doing one really big card a year in MSG and also spreading maybe 2 other level cards around other parts of NY.

Agreed. They'll have smaller shows out in Long Island's Nassau Colosseum [one of WWE's old NY stomping grounds] or probably even the Hammerstein Ballroom [which has housed ECW and ROH Wrestling events before so a UFC event won't be out of the realm of possibility.] Maybe do like the old wrestling days and have Summer events at Yankee or Shea Stadium.

Basically there's no shortage of places they can hold an event if they don't want to always go to MSG.

That_Guy

I stopped listening to that O'Donnell chap as soon as he said,

"the vice president of MMA"...

:pac:

If you're going to protest against something, surely you should actually know what you're protesting against.

The very definition of a Joe Duffy caller. "I didn't see it Joe but I hate it Joe".

hardCopy

That_Guy wrote: »

I stopped listening to that O'Donnell chap as soon as he said,

"the vice president of MMA"...

:pac:

If you're going to protest against something, surely you should actually know what you're protesting against.

The very definition of a Joe Duffy caller. "I didn't see it Joe but I hate it Joe".

Or Catherine Noone. No I haven't watched it but I read a very well written article by someone I respect

Andersonisgod

The entire assembly was like the most surreal thing you've ever watched if you had even the tiniest modicum of mma knowledge. These people were so ill-informed on the topic that it was like they'd landed from a different planet that day to debate the bill. My personal favourite was Rivera who appeared to be a character lifted straight out of a Rocky Balboa movie.

Devastator

GiftofGab

I'm not surprised mother****ers

Hazys

JohnMc1 wrote: »

Have you seen MSG ticket prices? No way will NY fans pay top dollar for a crap card. UFC will need to bring their A-game to it.

Knicks sell out every night and they suck.

NYC has a huge affluent population, the UFC could put out 2 random lads from the bar across the street in the cage as headliners and sell out MSG at $500 a ticket.

Depp

Fair enough if you dont like mma think what you think but if youre an elected official voting on laws at least research what youre voting on...bare knuckle for christs sake!

Hazys

He's Rosie O'Donnell's brother

Mellor

Depp wrote: »

Fair enough if you dont like mma think what you think but if youre an elected official voting on laws at least research what youre voting on...bare knuckle for christs sake!

The issue is we can all instantly spot the fact that they have no clue, as we'd we fairly educated on MMA. But its probably he same for every topic that comes across the elecratoral decision makers. Nuclear energy, human rights, new technology, etc etc. They are probably equally clueless to it all, but it's only evident when you know a bit about it yoursef