France to legalize MMA in January 2020

Fans could be one step closer to seeing the Octagon land in France.
On Monday, minister of sport Roxana Maracineanu announced the formation of a committee to oversee the legalization of MMA in France, which is expected to become official on Jan. 1, 2020, per Agence France-Presse.
As it stands, the plan is for one of the existing French athletic federations to submit proposals to become responsible for sanctioning MMA at both the amateur and professional level. That list reportedly includes four