New York Is a Fighting State; Or Is It?

“New York is a fighting state. Madison Square Garden is a fighting venue. It’s meant to be here.” —Pete “Drago” Sell   It may be a state full of fighters in a metaphorical sense. But there are actual fighters there, athletes comparable to those on the field in the Bronx’s Yankee Stadium, or on the court at Syracuse’s Carrier Dome or at Madison Square Garden in Manhattan.   Those athletes are banned by the state from practicing their sport. Exhaustive efforts to legalize