The Wrong Kind of Big
Chael Sonnen vs. Jon Jones is shaping up as the biggest fight in UFC history. Not in the octagon and not at the box office, but in the political arena. The Wall Street Journal published an editorial on Friday illuminating the games that Zuffa and the culinary union have been playing as New York state has considered legalizing MMA. The Journal's editorial board -- a group that looks with jaundice at almost every union -- takes Sheldon Silver to task for ostensibly allowing the Las Vegas culinary union stop New York city and Buffalo from holding events that would supposedly generate economic activity for the state of New York. There is reason to doubt that UFC events in New York would boost the economy at the $16 million dollar level claimed by Zuffa, but that's not the point. It is unclear if the $16 million number considers the possibility that the two hundred bucks spent on a UFC ticket that supports Dana White and Jon Jones might have been spent at a local bar or res