Help get MMA sanctioned in Ontario

I was a guest on “Showdown” Joe Ferraro’s radio show on the Fan 590 a couple of nights ago and inevitably the subject of MMA sanctioning in Ontario came up and inevitably I got a little incensed at the foot-dragging going on by Premier Dalton McGuinty. For a guy who shares a first name with Patrick Swayze’s Roadhouse bad-ass you’d think he’d be a bit more on-board with MMA.

I know Joe’s just as livid that the sport isn’t allowed in the province – yet – but he managed to keep his cool. The wheels are turning to make it happen no matter what McGuinty says publicly. There’s an inevitability about it. And Showdown Joe is very much at the center of it (and has been for a long time). Now it’s time for you to do your part.

There’s an online petition demanding that the sport be sanctioned that Joe will hand-deliver to McGuinty (or he’ll get the door slammed in his face trying). It will take you 30 seconds to fill in your name. That’s it.

But it’s not enough. If you want MMA in the province of Ontario – not just the UFC, not just the WEC or StrikeforceDalton McGuinty or whoever, but local fights with local fighters, too – then you need to let that be known. Tell . Tell your Member of Provincial Parliament. Send them an email. Phone them. Fax them. Hand-deliver your massage to their office. I’ve made it easy for you by including links to McGuinty’s contact info as well as the MPPs. You want something, ask for it.