If you live in New York, New Jersey, or Philadelphia Raw Combat: The Underground World of Mixed Martial Arts will not only resonate with fight fans in the area, but it will now focus as a piece of history for a time when the sport was banned in the state of New York. I had the pleasure and honor of meeting the author, Jim Genia at the World MMA Expo in New York City last year. I was there covering the expo for Page2sports and was at the rally to lift the ban the day before. Genia was hosting a panel at the expo to help get the ban lifted so I sat down when it was scheduled to begin. In my brief conversation with Genia he mentioned his book and gave me a t-shirt that read "MMA for NY". I made a note to buy a copy the next day, it was the least I could since he gave me a shirt. Little did I know he and I had been in a lot of the same places familiar with martial artists in the area. The book is a trip down East Coast martial arts memory lane and if you tr...
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