Arnold has come thru for us. MMA is now legal in California.

source?

www."thatothermmawebsite.com"

sherdog

the UG

inside fighting

etc etc

Awesome!

http://www.dca.ca.gov/csac/laws/061703prop_regs.pdf

link for the rules

pdf format

this is way too good

Hopefully New York will follow.

Yesterday, MMA Writer Josh Gross had the story that Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has approved MMA in the state of California.

While this is great news, it appears it will be awhile before you see any organization appearing on the left coast anytime soon.

The big sticking point now is not only forming an MMA Commission in California but paying the costs to have a commission set up.

MMAWeekly.com has learned that the early talk from the lawmakers from last years hearing, was the fact that it would cost any organization in the ball park of 500,000 to just set up a MMA Commission in the state of California. (With the people MMAWeekly talked to yesterday we've heard estimates, anywhere from 300,000 - 900,000 to have a commission set up.)

Which in all reality, would come out of the promoters pockets for the first MMA event in the state.....something that 95% of the organizations could not come up with for the initial "first MMA fight" in California.

Basically the first fight promotion or promotions that enters California have to make sure that there is an mma commission in place.

A boxing commission is of course already set in the state already, but that is separate from MMA and there will need to be an MMA commission set if there are any future fights in the state.

In the state of Nevada they do have many who do both boxing and MMA. The large sum of money has to cover many costs including doctors, security, judges, and referee costs; as well as, all of those positions need to be approved once a commission is set up.

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