Dana White NEWARK, N.J. – It’s been six weeks since Dana White dropped the news that the UFC was planning a December show in the famed Madison Square Garden. To pull that off, though, requires a little help from some folks who haven’t quite been friends to the UFC – members of the New York State Assembly. New York remains the country’s lone holdout for legalized MMA, keeping the UFC from holding events there and forcing it across the river to New Jersey, where Saturday’s UFC on FOX 15 took place at Prudential Center in Newark. The man thought to be the biggest political stumbling block for passage of an MMA bill in New York, former New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, now is out of the picture, though, and that has White, the UFC’s president, confident enough to hold a date at the Garden, one of the most famous sports venues in the world. Silver was arrested in January on corruption charges and resigned his post.
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Dana White remaining cautiously optimistic New York MMA legislation will pass – MMA Junkie