{"id":2833,"date":"2011-03-16T17:00:36","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T00:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/03\/mixed-martial-arts-rally-in-midtown-manhattan\/"},"modified":"2011-03-16T17:01:49","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T00:01:49","slug":"mixed-martial-arts-rally-in-midtown-manhattan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/16\/mixed-martial-arts-rally-in-midtown-manhattan\/","title":{"rendered":"Mixed Martial Arts Rally in Midtown Manhattan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.observer.com\/2011\/politics\/kapow-mixed-martial-artists-rally-midtown-legialization?utm_source=bm23&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=Kapow%21+Mixed+Martial+Artists+to+Rally+in+Midtown+for+Legialization&amp;utm_content=The+New+York+Observer+-+Newsletter+-+March+16%2C+2011&amp;utm_campaign=The+New+York+Observer+-+Newsletter+-+March+16%2C+2011\" target=\"_blank\">from The New York Observer<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>Kapow! Mixed Martial Artists to Rally in Midtown for Legialization<\/h1>\n<p id=\"print-byline\">By David Freedlander<\/p>\n<p id=\"print-date\">March 16, 2011 | 9:54 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"print-image\" style=\"float: right\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.observer.com\/files\/article\/Jewtuszko%20vs.jpg\" id=\"main_article_image\" alt=\"Kapow! Mixed Martial Artists to Rally in Midtown for Legialization\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Over 1,000 fans of Mixed Martial Arts are expected to rally today in front of Radio City to call on lawmakers to legalize the sport in New York State.<\/p>\n<p>A study commissioned by Ultimate Fighting Championship, an MMA sports association and production company, found that regulating the sport would generate $23 million in economic activity.<\/p>\n<p>Proponents of keeping the sport illegal say that it borders on the barbaric because the aim is to disable or maim your opponent. MMA is outlawed in only a handful of states other than New York, including Connecticut, Vermont and West Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s rally is part of a promotion about an upcoming bout\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodyelbow.com\/2011\/3\/16\/2053633\/countdown-to-ufc-128-shogun-vs-jones-recap\" style=\"color: #000000\" target=\"_blank\">between Shogun Rua and Jon Jones<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.observer.com\/2011\/politics\/kapow-mixed-martial-artists-rally-midtown-legialization?utm_source=bm23&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=Kapow%21+Mixed+Martial+Artists+to+Rally+in+Midtown+for+Legialization&amp;utm_content=The+New+York+Observer+-+Newsletter+-+March+16%2C+2011&amp;utm_campaign=The+New+York+Observer+-+Newsletter+-+March+16%2C+2011\" target=\"_blank\">click to read full article at The Observer<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The New York Observer Kapow! Mixed Martial Artists to Rally in Midtown for Legialization By David Freedlander March 16, 2011 | 9:54 a.m. Over 1,000 fans of Mixed Martial Arts are expected to rally today in front of Radio City to call on lawmakers to legalize the sport in New York State. A study [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}