Students at Ronin Athletics, a midtown Manhattan Mixed Martial Arts gym, talk during a break in training, in New York March 21, 2016. New York is poised to join the rest of the country in legalizing mixed martial arts (MMA) fights, as the state Assembly prepares to pass a bill to end a ban on the full-contact sport, a measure the Senate has approved on multiple occasions over the years. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid