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City Room: State Assembly Will Not Legalize Mixed Martial Arts, Speaker Says

May 8, 2012

Mixed martial arts will not become legal in New York this year after the State Assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver, said on Monday that a bill to allow it would not come to the floor for a vote. full story

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