Does anyone live in Chi-town if so you could be watching UFC live in 08 here are the details...
The Ultimate Fighting Championship's final political hurdle to come to Chicago was eliminated Monday night when Gov. Blagojevich signed into law a bill that will allow mixed-martial-arts events to be sanctioned in Illinois.
''We're delighted,'' UFC vice president Marc Ratner said. ''We want to come to Illinois very badly. They have mixed-martial-arts events now, but they're not properly regulated. That's why we've waited, to go through the state commission.
''We've already been in contact with the United Center and Allstate Arena.''
The law is scheduled to go into effect July 1, 2008, and it probably would be about two months before the UFC would be able to host a card. The UFC is hoping to get an amendment passed making the law effective Jan. 1, 2008, to get to Chicago as soon as possible.
''Our goal is to get there in '08,'' Ratner said.
