Hey Ricardo : I would not recomend anyone to try to do a show at this time as they are looking for A reason to step in.

Brian: I agree that all of the fighting sports with established rules should be allowed as they are now with most major boxing comissions . The law was written to oulaw NHB fighting in 1996 when they wanrted to bring the UFC top NYC. I agre that the UFC should be in NYC if it wants to be but this law does oulaw NHB fighting. This was A major public issue in NYC when it was made A law with all of the major polaticians.

The rules regarding liqueur are as it shows that anyone that has NHB where there they have a liqeur license will be shut down and they will loose there license.

By the way I have not had Liquer at my last 3 events .

This has been my entire point from the beginning with the boxing commission that this law has never outlawed Kickboxing only NHB as it was such A public issue and we have kickboxing on Tv in the same venues as boxing on A regular basis ever since the law was writte even using many of the same officials Referees and judges that work for the boxing commission.

This has only been in the last couple of months that the boxing commission has decided to interpet the law to read that it outlaws Kickboxing unless we are sanctioned by one of the 12 organizations that are on the list.

The list has mostly traditional organizations and point Karate organizations on it that will not even return my calls or emails.

I will continue to try to contact the 12 organizations on the list as I have been doing to keep our shows alive and others until they change either the law or there new interpetation of this old law.

I only hope that 1 of these 12 organizations sees this as an oprtunity to help them to gain alot of new buissnes while helping to keep the sport of kickboxing in NYS alive.

There are shows in new jersey and Conn but Ny has been A hotbed for Kickboxing in the US for years especially long island where my shows are based.

The 3 biggest promoters in the Ny area Lou Neglia,Joe Pulio,Ring Of Fire have based our productions on Long Islnad for many years. Louis Neglia has been doing shows out of state,Joe Pulio is waiting for the law to change and we are negotiating for some venues in Atlantic City, NJ. NY is our home town and where our base audience is and we should not be forced out of our home town. There are many other good promotions as well that are being put out of buissness.

The promotions will continue to get worse if there is no place for the up and coming fighters to compete. There is also A need for competition with promoters for the fighters purses to continue to grow.

I have 2 fighters in Atlantic city NJ on January 17 th and they are fighting for almost nothing. I can make more fighting in my school than both of these fighters are getting paid to fight tough fights.

When you take away the competition the fighters are the ones who suffer the most because they just want to fight.

If something does not change soon we are headed for the sport in this state going back to where it used to be where there where only 1 or 2 promoters in the tri-state area and there where the promoters champs and the chumps.