JILLIAN KAY MELCHIOR: The Fight for Mixed Martial Arts in New York.

There’s strong demand for UFC in New York, and it remains unmet because a local Nevada union is circumventing the democratic process to serve its own political ends.

“I don’t understand how New York can allow itself to be manipulated on an issue that has nothing to do with whether MMA should be [allowed in the state],” Epstein says. “This is an abused process. It’s not an honest debate. . . . We deserve a vote, and the fact that we’re not getting a vote says it all.”