What's Going On In Michigan? A Promoter and a Commission Chairman Speak
Published by Jim Genia on January 14th, 2010 in Current Eventswww.mmamemories.com
When the Michigan Boxing Commission became the Unarmed Combat Commission back in 2008, an agency was created that was empowered to regulate and sanction professional mixed martial arts in the Great Lakes State. But the sport was alive and kicking there long before that, due in no small part to Joe Donofrio, a man with a decade of experience promoting boxing shows and the foresight to embrace the future. In the span of four years, Donofrio has put on 16 amateur events - until now, the only incarnation of MMA permitted since the UFC came and went in 1996. One such event last January packed 10,000 fans into the Palace at Auburn Hills (the home of the Detroit Pistons basketball team). Not bad numbers for an amateur show, or for even any MMA show in fact.
