Complex sentence: This showdown was dubbed by the press as the "Battle of Newark Bay", while the Santa Fe Chamber of Commerce announced it would protest Newark's "slur" of "New Mexico's" namesake, through its refusal to admit the battleship.
Split into simpler sentences: This showdown was dubbed by the press as the "Battle of Newark Bay". To complicate things further, the Santa Fe, New Mexico Chamber of Commerce announced it would protest Newark's "slur" of "New Mexico's" namesake, through its refusal to admit the battleship.