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MMA in NYS - MISSION STATEMENT

We are doctors, lawyers, businessmen (and businesswomen), teachers, church volunteers to name just a few. But we're all MMA fans! And we just think the greatest sport in the world should be legal in the greatest place in the world.
Let's have MMA in NYS already!

While we might think Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) a quintessentially modern sport, it is in fact one of the oldest sports known to man. It’s origins date back to 648BC, where it was recognized as an official sport in the thirty-third Olympiad of Ancient Greece.

Similarly, MMA in this regard has a long history in Asia and the New World. The Asian fighting arts have always had a tradition of mixed rule, style-versus-style clashes: this was particularly true in Japan, where even in the 19th century numerous challenge matches took place between competing styles of Jiu-jitsu.

In February of 1997, Unconsolidated Laws of the State of New York , Title 25, Chapter 1. § 8905-a(2) was signed into law but most people know it simply as the “Live Professional MMA Ban.”
Amongst other things, it prohibits the following in New York State: Professional MMA matches from being
--“conducted, held or given”
--“advancing” professional MMA
--“profiting from” professional MMA
Violation of the law is a crime and any person “who knowingly advances or profits from a combative sport activity shall also...