Melvina Lathan received bribe

Reports are emerging that Lathan received a 500k bribe to allow the fight to continue. Things like this only add a black eye to Boxing an some sort of check and balance must be created in order to prevent a single person from dictating if a fight happens or if the payoff is big enough. You would think she would hate MMA but read below You say it’s going to be harmful to people. How, specifically, will allowing live events of this sport in your state harm people? Well, there’s different parts to that answer and when I answer one part of that question I extend it. Let me give you one example of what I consider the problem and that’s the unsavory, sordid, corrupt process for legalization of this. Just recently I asked an aide to look into the firing of the past chair of the State Athletic Commission, who was replaced by a woman (Melvina Lathan) who in fact had worked for Marc Ratner, who now has a primary interest in Ultimate Fighting. And this woman is going to be our primary regulator in New York State? What is the connection and who brought her into this position of getting this chair? Her statement upon getting the position was about how she supports MMA, which I found very suspect. When I attended a meeting with her she demonstrated that she knew nothing about the sport. And yet her support for the sport was one of the first things that she focused on after being appointed. It’s that type of suspicious activity that really questions the sport. I think we’re down the road toward the corruption in boxing, and what happened to the fighters, the corruption in the sport.