West Valley City Council to meet, discourage MMA fightsFiled Under: Local, Rantings
I just heard about this while listening to X96 this morning – West Valley City seeks to negatively regulate MMA with a new ordinance. The full article can be found here.
A few snippets of choice are:
“Watching cage fighting can lead to a visceral, emotional reaction in the crowd, city police said during a recent study meeting. The charged, volatile environment can lead to folding chairs being used as projectiles, and mini-riots can erupt into situations that are impossible for law enforcers to control, they said.”
“As written, the ordinance would make the E Center at 3200 Decker Lake Drive the only suitable venue for fights.”
I agree with Mike Stidham’s summary when in the article he said that this ordinance will only stunt the the growth of MMA in WVC.
If you’d like to give your two cents, there is an open public hearing at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at City Hall, 3600 Constitution Blvd. I don’t know what happens in these kinds of meetings and if yelling/heckling is encouraged/allowed, but at least you can show up and use your disappointed face to let the city officials know how you feel.
Plus, if there is an emotional reaction in the crowd, no doubt there will be folding chairs flying around, creating an uncontrollable mini-riot. Sounds like fun.
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Tags: Mike Stidham, MMA, West Valley
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- BartB
- 23 Mar 2009 8:27 AM
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March 23rd, 2009 at 9:37 am
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March 23rd, 2009 at 2:45 pm
Do they have precedent for saying that there’ll be “mini-riots”? Do matches currently end with an audience brawl now?
And somehow I think heckling at city council meetings is probably discouraged.
March 25th, 2009 at 4:56 pm
mini-riots induced by chair throwing? really??
didn’t they recently do a piece on that in the Boondocks cartoon?
leave it up to our simple minded local yokel politicians to try and bar mixed martial arts competitions based upon what surely must be a misunderstanding between actual sporting events and fake wrestling shows.
Maybe this is a way of larger promotions coming in and shutting out the littler local shows by limiting the venues to a larger arena. Wouldn’t be the first time. Good use of tax money too.
In any case… weak sauce brought to us couresy of the chinless drooling shortbus trippers on the hill.
March 31st, 2009 at 10:03 am
That is ridiculous. The West Valley City Council should try going to a fight before making any assumptions. Politicians, who control much of what goes on in the state are country, are so stupid! Go ahead and make judgement before seeing with your own eyes, that’s Utah for ya.