Sen. Dave Aronberg, a Greenacres Democrat running for
Attorney General, lists the following recreational interests on his
official biography: golf, exercise, guitar, driving back and forth on
State Road 80.
Well, you can add another to the list — mixed martial arts.
The sport combines several different forms of fighting and has
skyrocketed in popularity. MMA events in Florida have tripled since the
2004-05 budget year.
After hearing during a committee
presentation that there is an MMA fight scheduled in Tallahassee on
Jan. 23 (the Saturday after a committee week) Aronberg's face lit up.
Explaining his fandom, Aronberg said, "It started off as really like a blood sport. It was like a bad Eric Roberts movie. Since then it's been regulated. It's become mainstream."
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