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The parent company of UFC will pay $335 million to settle two class-action lawsuits alleging that the promotion firm reduced the earning power of its fighters through anticompetitive behavior.
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 ...
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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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[145] [146] In 2014, Mexico became the second country in Latin America to host an event with UFC 180, [147] followed by a second event, UFC 188, in 2015. [148] Seven UFC events have been held in Australia, beginning with UFC 110 in 2010 and most recently in December 2018 with UFC Fight Night 142. [149]
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 ...