Sarah Evans of the Legislative Gazette reports some further details on the inclusion of an MMA bill in April’s New York state budget proposal, including a potential tax on broadcasting rights. The budget plan proposes an 8.5 percent tax on event admissions, the same as boxing and wrestling matches, with no cap, as well as a 3 […]
UFC Needs More of “This is Semtex”
The UFC has long guarded against much of its content appearing on Youtube, but the following promotional video featuring Paul Daley appears to eschew that tendency. It’s a well-produced and effective marketing tool that the UFC should try to encourage in the future. Payout Perspective: I’ve never exactly understood why the UFC is so strict […]
MMA in Wisconsin Almost Ready
Paul Fladten of WiCombatSports reports that MMA’s regulation in Wisconsin depends only on the signature of the state’s governor Jim Doyle. Only one signature stands in the way of Wisconsin becoming the 43rd state to regulate the sport of mixed martial arts; with yet another nearly unanimous vote by the Senate on Thursday, the autograph […]
Ontario the New MMA Mecca
Frye: “It’s Just a Circus Act”
John Morgan of MMAJunkie has a great article with Don Frye on the subject of James Toney and other professional athletes looking to jump into MMA. “I tell you what: Anybody who fights an [expletive] like James Toney or Herschel Walker or Jose Canseco or any of them other [expletives] that come into our sport […]