Dave Teixeira from ECCW

The voice of the local pro wrestling community Dave Teixeira is up. References community charter that gives municipalities the right to regulate comabt sports. Should be happy about that power. Quotes the injury stats – more deaths in badminton. more serious injuries in cheerleading. Shares with Council his love for cheerleaders however. Makes the correction that in terms of economic IMPACT (makes the distinction from the staff report), it would be about $20 million. Jang asks about copycat cases in the public with wrestling and MMA. Dave talks about protecting the fanbase and their safety. But you need to weed out those that are going to do what they are going to do in terms of mimicry. Meggs asking if wrestling is going up or down? Dave says wrestling in down about 20 per cent so far, directly as a result of the UFC phenomenon. Eating pro wrestling’s lunch, and now UFC is exploding because of masterful promotion. Dave makes good point about bad apples in politics just as there are bad apples in the world of MMA, and so don’t quote individual injuries on isolation.