{"id":61462,"date":"2013-06-06T05:48:13","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T12:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=61462"},"modified":"2022-02-06T13:00:39","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T21:00:39","slug":"after-votes-in-canada-and-connecticut-mma-is-legal-in-all-of-north-america-just-not-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/after-votes-in-canada-and-connecticut-mma-is-legal-in-all-of-north-america-just-not-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"After Votes in Canada And Connecticut MMA Is Legal In All Of North America, Just Not New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/map.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/map.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"map\" width=\"650\" height=\"449\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-61465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/map.jpg 650w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/map-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/map-579x400.jpg 579w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/map-362x250.jpg 362w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSee the map above? <\/p>\n<p>That one little red state is New York and the last remaining territory in North America to not legalize Mixed Martial Arts.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, in two separate voting occurrences, bills passed in Connecticut and the entire country of Canada to legalize mixed martial arts. <\/p>\n<p>With New York bing the last holdout for Mixed Martial Arts will there now be added pressure for the state legislature to move on the sports legalization or do you think they are O.K. with being the odd man out? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See the map above? That one little red state is New York and the last remaining territory in North America to not legalize Mixed Martial Arts. Yesterday, in two separate voting occurrences, bills passed in Connecticut and the entire country of Canada to legalize mixed martial arts. With New York bing the last holdout for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2616,"featured_media":61464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[2681],"tags":[11,649,15,16,1040],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>After Votes in Canada And Connecticut MMA Is Legal In All Of North America, Just Not New York | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/after-votes-in-canada-and-connecticut-mma-is-legal-in-all-of-north-america-just-not-new-york\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"After Votes in Canada And Connecticut MMA Is Legal In All Of North America, Just Not New York | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"See the map above? 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