UFC also continues to face opposition in the state in the form of the influential Las Vegas Culinary Union. The organization has battled UFC owners Frank and Lorenzo Fertitta across the country in large part because the brothers own the non-unionized Station Casinos in Vegas. MMA's struggle to gain sanctioning in New York is a spin-off of that fight in Nevada.
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