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The American-based Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is the largest mixed martial arts (MMA) promotion in the world. [1] Since its inception in 1993, the UFC has been the subject of controversies, ranging from moral condemnation of its events by politicians, which resulted in MMA being banned in many US states, to criticism for underpaying its athletes and for criminal behavior committed by ...
It’s not in the UFC’s best interests to release that information, so it won’t. But the fighters themselves, or their managers could. Amid pay controversy, wisest course of action for UFC ...
On August 9, 2023, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware granted class action status to more than 1,200 former UFC fighters who competed between December 2010 and June 2017 and are suing for $800 million upward to $1.6 billion in wages, as the lawsuit claims Zuffa had abused its power to suppress UFC fighters' wages.
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Fighters from Saturday's UFC 279 took home UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance pay totaling $202,000.
UFC 52, the first event after the first season of The Ultimate Fighter featuring eventual-UFC Hall of Famer: Chuck "The Iceman" Liddell, avenging his defeat to fellow eventual-Hall of Famer, Randy Couture, drew a pay-per-view audience of 300,000, [71] doubling its previous benchmark of 150,000 set at UFC 40.
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For all the broader questions, most fighters had just one – the sort that was inevitable given widespread criticism of the UFC’s fighter pay, and the fact that Monday’s statement boasted of ...